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ADAPTIVE REUSE OF CLAY-TILE ARCHED FLOORS This article about antiquated structural systems is the second in a series aimed at structural engineers involved in the repair, restoration, or adaptive reuse of older buildings for which no drawings exist. —Editor Concrete and steel-framed floors constructed in the late 1800s and early 1900s often included hollow clay-tile arches that spanned between beams and girders. The arches were typically covered with a concrete topping and often had plaster applied directly to the soffit of the exposed tiles.
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The new academic complex on the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University (ASU) was built to withstand the insistent, erosive forces of the desert around Mesa, Arizona. "Being out on the eastern part of the valley, the site is very exposed and gets hit very hard with wind and rain," says Beau Dromiack, design leader for RSP Architects, the architect of record for the project. "It requires a durable architecture which we call 'desert tough.'"
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SELF-MASS DAMPER AT TOKYO SWATCH The Swatch Group's new flagship structure in Tokyo, the Nicolas G. Hayek Center, featured in ArchitectureWeek No. 416, is built with an array of innovative elements, ranging from elevating showrooms and multistory retractable glass exterior walls to moving floors for reducing seismic forces induced in the building.
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More Building and Construction Housing Starts Down on Multifamily Weakness — Wall Street Journal, 2009.0520Shelter in the Storm — Boston Globe, 2009.0519 April Housing Starts Drop on Apartments — Bloomberg, 2009.0519 Sign of Optimism: Home Prices Rise — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2009.0519 U.S. Home Starts Seen Rising to 520,000 Units in April — Reuters, 2009.0519 Home Depot Girds for Continued Weakness — New York Times, 2009.0519 Plunge in Multifamily Units Drags Housing Starts Down in April — Chicago Tribune, 2009.0519 Drop in Building of Apartments Drags Down Housing Starts — New York Times, 2009.0519 Stocks Rally on Building Data — Forbes, 2009.0518 S&P Above 900 on Lowe's, Home Builders — Smart Money, 2009.0518 Rise in Homebuilder Confidence Spurs Rally — The Street, 2009.0518 Home Builder Sentenced to Prison for $126,000 Fraud — Buffalo News, 2009.0515 Construction Materials Price Index Declines for Seventh Consecutive Month — Reed Construction Data, 2009.0514 Building Materials: How Big a Stimulus Boost? — Business Week, 2009.0514 Treasury Sweetens Housing Rescue Incentives — Reuters, 2009.0514 Cuprum Arena - the Only Mall of Its Kind in Poland — Polish Market Online, 2009.0514 Adaptive Reuse of Clay-Tile Arched Floors — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0513 The House That Green Built — News Journal, 2009.0513 Making It Happen — Metropolis, 2009.0513 Home Prices in U.S. Drop Most on Record in Quarter — Bloomberg, 2009.0512 April Raises Hopes for Home Builders — News-Journal Online, 2009.0512 Foam Will Be Used to Fill in Downtown Tunnel — St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2009.0512 China Quake: One Year on, Still Rebuilding — Christian Science Monitor, 2009.0512 Building a McMini — Philadelphia Inquirer, 2009.0508 Stimulus Funds Will Slow Decline in Nonresidential Construction Markets — Reed Construction Data, 2009.0507 From Sandcastles to Solid Rock — Science Network, 2009.0506 Australian Building Approvals Rise 3.5% on Grants — Bloomberg, 2009.0505 D.R. Horton Loss Narrows — Wall Street Journal, 2009.0504 Construction Spending Posts Surprise Increase in March — RTT News, 2009.0504 This Concrete Thinks It's Metal — Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0501
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