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August 11,2010Government plans to build new embassy in Iraq. Marking the beginning of the post-Saddam Hussein era in Iraq, the U.S. State Department is planning to allocate $35.8 million to construct a new embassy in Baghdad. The funds would come from President Bush's $74.7 billion supplemental budget for the war.
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August 11,2010Building Design+Construction's chief editor, Robert Cassidy, warned members of the Washington Metro chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute about the looming dangers of climate change and the impact it will have on AEC professionals. “With more than 30 climate change initiatives under way among state, regional, and local entities, it's almost certain that future building and ...
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August 11,2010Spending for the construction of public buildings other than educational and health facilities — prisons, fire stations, courthouses — expanded by 6.7 percent between 1999 and 2000, a rate well above the 2.6 percent increase recorded the previous year. Spending for all kinds of public and private institutional buildings totaled an estimated $132.
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August 11,2010Baker Barrios Architects of Orlando, Fla., has completed designs for a rugby training facility at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Baker Barrios is providing architectural and program management services for the 12,000-sf, $12 million facility, which includes locker rooms, practice facilities, athletic competition fields, weight rooms, training rooms, a press box, and skyb...
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August 11,2010Union Park, a $6 billion mixed-use center in downtown Las Vegas, will combine nine million sf of residential, retail, medical, office, hotel, and civic space primarily for use by the city's residents and workers. The center will include the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, a neurodegenerative disease research and treatment center designed by architect Frank Gehry; the Smith Center for the Performing A...
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August 11,2010Software simplifies the design and pricing of radiant-heat flooring systems. Users input data about the project, and RFH WarmSource Version 2.06 calculates the heat loss of the structure, heat output, heat source requirements and hydraulic information such as flow rate, supply-water temperature and system pressure.
