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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.
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August 11,2010The development of plans for a large geode was clearly the most challenging assignment for McNamara Alumni Center's structural engineers, Minneapolis-based Meyer, Borgman and Johnson (MBJ). The unusual mass has 17 individual surfaces, all sloping at various angles, according to MBJ project engineer Jerod Hoffman.
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August 11,2010Trivers Associates of St. Louis worked with local developer McCormack Baron Salazar to design 6 North Apartments, the nation's first large-scale housing development to incorporate universal design principles. All 80 units of the complex, as well as its common spaces and corner coffeehouse, are fully accessible by both the able-bodied and the disabled.
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August 11,2010A news item in the March 2008 issue of BD+C (p. 80) on Sika Sarnafil's 2007 Projects of the Year Competition incorrectly stated that Sika Sarnafil manufactures TPO roof systems. The company makes PVC roofing membrane.
