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CR4 - Blog Entry: Photos Call for Seismic Engineering

There is perhaps no more stunning example of the destructive power unleashed by a natural disaster than that of the before-and-after photos recently compiled by Google "Street View" of Japan's devastating March 2010 earthquake and its resulting tsunami. The "Street View"

A Vermont Home Aims for Passivhaus Certification | GreenBuildingAdvisor.com

Subtitle:  An asymmetrical “barn” is designed to maintain interior comfort during all four seasons and use relatively little energy Images:  Green Building News Christopher Procter, a principal at London-based architecture and

Limit material wastage through 3D design | Building Green TV

<p>This video shows a small pavilion I designed and build last year at Staten Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. I was limited to use 1 kilometer of laths, so I decided to design the structure using a 3D modeling program, which allowed me to carefully to control the amount material. In the end all

No Climate Bill? No Problem! Time for a New "Standard of Care" in Building Design | Green Build

We help grow the business of green building with green building consulting, sustainability management, green building keynote speakers and free resources. Jerry Yudelson is a green building authority, consultant and author of 12 green building books.

A Daily Dose of Architecture: Monday, Monday

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/main.html">My weekly page</a>update:</span><br /><br />This week's dose features<a href="http://www.archidose.org/Feb10/15/dose.html">Split Level House</a>in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Qb:<br /><a

Is your building design Green or Sustainable? - Elemental - Contract Journal - Construction Space

These are my links for January 23rd through January 26th: Not the last straw: Homes made from straw bales make a comeback | MNN – Mother Nature

Is your building design Green or Sustainable?

I’ve been geeking out over my gorgeous faux leather hard bound copy of the 2009 Ashrae Handbook – Fundamentals (SI units) which recently arrived in the post.

CR4 - Blog Entry: No Hint of Twin Towers at WTC Memorial

The new World Trade Center Memorial in lower Manhattan is becoming memorable not only for the lives it honors, but also for the fact that it reuses almost none of the original building's materials or structural components from the Twin Towers. Unlike more traditional war memorials, such as

CR4 - Blog Entry: Airport Security Design Simplified

If you travel a lot, you know how much of a hassle it is going through today's version of airport security. Bag searches, removing shoes and belts, emptying your pockets, pat-downs, and body scans &#8212; all combine to leave many passengers irritable and a bit humbilitated. Isn't

CR4 - Blog Entry: Fallout Shelters: What's Their Legacy?

Those of us who grew up in the Cold War years remembel those duck-and-cover drills in elementary schools, some of which boasted reinforced concrete basements that served as Civil Defense structures. As David Monteyne's new book, Fallout Shelter, points out, those Civil Defense structurers

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