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PREFAB PLATINUM On a cloudy day in April 2006, a crowd of curious onlookers gathered on a hillside street in Santa Monica, California, to watch the installation of the first LivingHomes prefabricated house. Over the course of eight hours, 11 modules were hoisted by crane onto a concrete slab in a dramatic departure from traditional residential construction.
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OREGON ENGINEERING Engineering students today face a different future from that of their predecessors. As design professionals develop new approaches to sustainability in architecture, old ideas about technology and mechanical controls as the ultimate solution are flying out the window.
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STONE GREEN Architects Busby Perkins+Will and KEEN Engineering, which is now part of Stantec, combined multiple green strategies within a single project to achieve Canada's first LEED Gold certification for new construction for the City of White Rock Operations Building in British Columbia.
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More Environment A Systematic Approach to Sustainability — Buildings.com, 2006.1206LA Gives Back Water to California River — New York Times, 2006.1206 Tree-Dwellers Still Hanging Out — Oroville Mercury-Register, 2006.1205 Adobe Headquarters Awarded Highest Honors from USGBC — Adobe Press Release, 2006.1205 Australia Fears Super Fires as Temperatures Soar — Reuters, 2006.1205 Zaragoza Spain to Host World Expo in 2008 — Travel Video, 2006.1205 Green Classroom Complete — New Builder, 2006.1205 Make My Day — Oklahoman, 2006.1205 Report Shows Effects of Construction Pollution — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2006.1205 FEMA Concerned about Debris at Gentilly Landfill — The Advocate, 2006.1205 When Questions of Science Come to a Courtroom, Truth Has Many Faces — New York Times, 2006.1205 Los Angeles Selected to Host Greenbuild 2007 — AZoBuild.com, 2006.1205 A Sustainable Life — Rutland Herald, 2006.1204 Women Drive Green Building Rating System — Bay Area Business Woman, 2006.1204 How Green Is My Company? — The Slatin Report, 2006.1204 Tapping Sun for Water Heat — Toronto Star, 2006.1204 Landfill: Transformed into Environmental Education Park — University of Connecticut Advance, 2006.1204 Waiting for the Green Light — Napa Valley Register, 2006.1204 Green 'House' — New York Post, 2006.1204 Grass-Roofed Mall Opens, but No Grass — Vail Daily, 2006.1204 German High-Tech Sky Sail May Cut Costs, Emissions — Cnet, 2006.1204 The Truth about Toxics — ENN, 2006.1204 I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas — Baltimore Sun, 2006.1203 Radioactive Homeland — Free New Mexican, 2006.1203 Follow This Recipe for an Eco-Friendly Healthful Kitchen — Orlando Sentinel, 2006.1203 London 2012: The World's First One-Planet Olympics — World Changing, 2006.1201 Radioactive Find Prompts Survey of Area — Houston Chronicle, 2006.1201 Building Sector Unites to Confront Global Climate Change — Architecture-India, 2006.1201 Stealing Green — Whole Life, 2006.1201 The 'ICEAlity' of Sustainability Natural for Some Architects — ICEA Press Release, 2006.1130 Sustainability Champion — Green Source, 2006.1130 Eco Buildings — Variety, 2006.1130 Making Environmentally Friendly More Biz Friendly — Brooklyn Downtown Star, 2006.1130 Sun Valley Gets Low Grade on Environment — Forbes, 2006.1130 Positioning Landscape Architecture in the New Era — ASLA Speech at Landscape.cn, 2006.1130 Justices’ First Brush with Global Warming — New York Times, 2006.1130 USGBC Awards HOK's Organizational Leadership — Revitalization Online, 2006.1130 California 'Green Tuners' Clamor for Plug-in Cars — Washington Post, 2006.1129 Bamboo Leads Green Revolution — San Francisco Chronicle, 2006.1129 Supreme Court to Take Up Global Warming — Washington Post, 2006.1129 DOE Secretary Addresses Renewable Energy Council — DOE Transcript, 2006.1129 USGBC Accredited as ANSI Standards Developer — U.S. Green Building Council press release, 2006.1127 Sales Centre Takes LEED — Toronto Star, 2006.1125 Hidden Costs of a Place in the Sun — The Times (London), 2006.1124 China Says Pollution Worsening Amid Economic Boom — International Herald Tribune, 2006.1122
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