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August 11,2010Construction has commenced on a six-story, 187,000-sf LEED-registered office building in Las Vegas. The Class-A office complex, called Montecito Point, will be located in Montecito Town Center, a mixed-used development featuring retail, single- and multifamily housing, a full-service hospital, and recreational attractions.
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August 11,2010Used as a substitute for traditional glass curtain wall systems to form the outer building envelope, building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) panels provide electrical output ratings from 135 to 240 watts, providing supplemental power for lighting, HVAC and plug loads within a building.
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August 11,2010San Francisco-based Webcor Builders recently put the finishing touches on the 32-story InterContinental San Francisco, the largest hospitality addition in the city in nearly two decades. Designed by Patri Merker Architects, San Francisco, the translucent tower stands as a new gateway into the city's convention district and meets a demand for more accommodations and meeting space.
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August 11,2010Designed to enhance the use of science and technology in Bergen County Special Services' landscaping programs, the new single-story facility at the technical school's Paramus campus will have 7,950 sf of classroom space, a 1,000-sf greenhouse (able to replicate different environments, such as rainforest, desert, forest, and tundra), and 5,000 sf of outside landscaping and gardening space.
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August 11,2010A misplaced decimal point resulted in an incorrect ranking for a firm in the Engineers category in BD&C's listing of the 300 largest U.S. design and construction firms, published in July. Gage-Babcock & Associates was incorrectly listed as the seventh largest firm, with a volume of $51 million.
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August 11,2010The Labor Department's composite measure of average prices for the entire range of construction materials and supplies declined by a slim 0.1 percent between February and March of this year. This brought the March 2001 composite index to a level 2.1 percent below its reading for the third month of 2000.
