Portugal Floating Home Produces 1 Year of Energy in 6 Months
What could be better than a floating version of the perfect vacation home in a sunny, warm climate? How about one that’s off the proverbial grid and totally self-sufficient? The…
What could be better than a floating version of the perfect vacation home in a sunny, warm climate? How about one that’s off the proverbial grid and totally self-sufficient? The…
While things like global positioning systems (GPS) and computerized geographic information systems (GIS) have revolutionized surveying, the basic principles of surveying remain the same: accurate measurement of a point and…
What’s quieter than any quiet that you know? That’s not a trick question. We have our own ideas about what’s really quiet. Sometimes being under a still body of water,…
It started out as a great idea. Improve Chicago’s public housing, making buildings and neighborhoods safer and more accessible to all. And to a certain degree, that’s what has happened.…
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California often leads the herd in energy-wise legislation, and a new law shows that it still holds true. Signed by Governor Jerry Brown on October 8, the new benchmarking program…
The next time you that you sit on a bank note, it might be under your pocket and not in it. Pulling together unusual materials is something that furniture designers…
Prosperity for career architects is a relative term. Many architects feel that they pay is so low that they’d just as soon call themselves “artisanal building designers”. But average compensation…
When you imagine the world’s tallest modern wood structure, could you envision a commercial building? It’s got its limitations, but new technology means that wood has a brand new lease…
They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and that’s why Dresser Rand and Ener Core are collaborating to harvest fuel from garbage. Industrial waste comes in many…