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ABCS OF VIDEOCONFERENCE ROOMS The technology of videoconferencing — two or more people at different locations communicating through video and audio — places new demands on traditional conference rooms. Each meeting location becomes, in effect, a broadcast studio, so once-simple conference rooms have become more complicated to design. Videoconferencing can involve two people at different locations communicating one to one, or an individual broadcasting to numerous locations, or many people at many locations talking and interacting with each other in a multipoint conference.
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IMPROVING TRADITIONAL BRICK An analysis of major earthquakes over the last 50 years reveals the preponderance of structural damage, building collapse, and fatalities to have occurred in the residential sector. This highlights a serious problem in the rural districts of Central Asia, where more than 65 percent of residential construction uses clay-based materials and methods.
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More Building and Construction Scramble to Cover Builders After Major Insurer Withdraws — Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2002.0410New Museum Will Celebrate California Art — Los Angeles Times, 2002.0409 Changes in Building Rules Likely after Tower Disaster Studies — Boston Globe, 2002.0409 Firefproofing Key in Code Review — Newsday, 2002.0409 Towers' Collapse Raises New Doubts about Fire Tests — New York Times, 2002.0408 Living Large in a Condo — Chicago Tribune, 2002.0406 Designs for a New Tower — Baltimore Sun, 2002.0406 Big Beams Eyed Centuries Ahead — Asahi, 2002.0405 Holyrood Architects ‘In for Cash Landslide’ — Scotsman Online, 2002.0405 Hancock Had Been Warned — Chicago Sun-Times, 2002.0404 Builders Urge Congress to Support Current Funding Levels for Rural Housing — National Association of Home Builders, 2002.0404 New Class of Weld-Free Steel-Framed Structures Created — UniSci, 2002.0404 Value Pricing Tactics Underused by A/E/C Firms — BusinessWire at BuildingOnline, 2002.0403 Dallas Builder Blends Energy Efficiency & Low-Income Housing — BuildingOnline, 2002.0403 Housing Affordability Rose Strongly in Final Quarter of 2001 — National Association of Home Builders, 2002.0403 HUD Announces $2.2 Billion in Grants to Fund Housing Programs — BuildingOnline, 2002.0403 NAHB Launches Online International Directory for Construction Industry — National Association of Home Builders, 2002.0403 The Great Straw Walls of China — Wired, 2002.0402 Panic Boom? — Chicago Tribune, 2002.0402 Construction Spending Jumps in Feb. — BDC, 2002.0401 Kitchen Confidential — Metropolis, 2002.04 Edition Lord Corporation Supplies 320 MR Fluid Dampers for Cable-Stayed Bridge — Lord Corporation press release, 2002.0327
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