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AGENTS OF ARCHITECTURAL CHANGE Architecture students are told to consider issues of energy, environment, and occupant health as they learn to design. Yet the profession lacks a widespread tradition of evaluating buildings. Students rarely investigate actual buildings, conduct post-occupancy surveys, or evaluate the successes or failures of design ideas.
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WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD BUILDINGS Most people in the construction industry have had this experience: Someone (a client, a guy at a cocktail party, your Aunt Ethel) asks, "Why can't you people build things the way you used to? Why do new buildings fall apart?"
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A SCHOOL WITH DAYLIGHT A newly opened school in Newport Beach provides both the medium and the message for teachers and parents in Southern California, who were already instilling in their children a respect for energy conservation before an electricity shortage hit the western United States. Architects in the Pasadena office of the firm
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More Building and Construction Housing Market Index Falls Two Points In April — NAHB Press Release, 2001.0416Proof of Jail-Window Strength a 'Fairy Tale' — Albuquerque Journal, 2001.0411 Amendment to allow merger in three fields — The Star, 2001.0417 Isis Light Expands Fiberoptic Lighting Market — Lsis Press Release, 2001.0416 Out-of-town architects win design bid to build accessible schools — Chicago Sun Times, 2001.0412 Ha-Lo scales back on Jahn building — Chicago Sun Times, 2001.0409 Construction Spending Rises — Individual News, 2001.0403 Lumber Trade Dispute Escalates — NY Times, 2001.0403 (registration required)
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