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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 Couple's Green Dream Thwarted — Norwich Evening News, 2006.1227Ten Simple Things You Can Do to Go Green — Canoe, 2006.1227 Water Cube Embodies Green Olympics Concept — China Daily, 2006.1227 Cities Strike Pledge to Build Green Power — Contra Costa Times, 2006.1227 Green Buildings Take Root in Cities, Schools — PBS, 2006.1226 Looking Toward 2007: What's Next? — World Changing, 2006.1225 Town Center Creates Innovative Approach to Green Building — Yahoo News, 2006.1224 Wartime Home May Get Energy Retrofit — The Star (Toronto), 2006.1223 The 2010 Imperative: Global Emergency Teach-In — Architecture 2030, 2006.1221 Transit Hub Honored as 'Green' Building — Santa Clara Daily News, 2006.1221 Greener Factories by Design — BDC, 2006.1221 Watershed Restoration in an Urban Landscape — Revitalization Online, 2006.1220 SoCal Energy Initiative Encourages System Upgrades — PR Web, 2006.1220 Refuse Generated by Antarctic Program Shipped to US for Recycling — Zee News, 2006.1220 Green Building Sets a Model — Des Moines Register, 2006.1219 EU Trade Chief Pushes Green Practices — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.1218 Off-Roaders, Activists Vie for Canyon Control — Pasadena Star News, 2006.1218 Brazil Probes Dead Fish Washing Ashore — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.1218 States Sue EPA over Soot Levels — Houston Chronicle, 2006.1218 Studio Bednarski's Sustainable Community Project in Nairobi Named Winner — Easier, 2006.1218 Eco-School at Heart of Maine Road 'Village'. — Manchester Evening News, 2006.1218 Green Standards Spur Shift — News-Observer, 2006.1218 Barely a Century after Discovery, Equator's Glaciers Are Slipping Away — Canada East, 2006.1217 Home Remodel Called a Model — San Jose Mercury News, 2006.1217 Environmental and Social Justice Are at the Heart of Sustainable Development — EcoClub Interview, 2006.1217 On a Green Horizon: Suburban Environmental Strategy in Lafayette — World Changing (blog), 2006.1216 Competition Vs. Sustainability — World Changing (blog), 2006.1216 Eco-Logical Library Is a Study in Green — Miami Herald, 2006.1215 Brits Say Going Green Is Too Costly — About Property, 2006.1215 White Rot Fungus Used to Remediate Dioxin-Polluted Soil — Japan for Sustainability, 2006.1215 Building Hotels? First Simulate the Effect on the Reef — Christian Science Monitor, 2006.1214
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