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ENERGY STAR FOR MULTIFAMILY HIGH-RISES The EPA's pilot program for the Energy Star for Multifamily High-Rises (MFHR) applies primarily to new construction. It was launched in 2006 with projects in New York and Oregon, and was later expanded to Colorado, Georgia, New Jersey, Texas, and Nevada in order to gather data from different climates.
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HAITI EARTHQUAKE — LOOKING FOR LESSONS Is the lesson of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake simply about poverty? Poverty and a lack of building regulation seem to be the main culprits identified in most media coverage to date. But ArchitectureWeek thinks there's more to the quake than that. — Editor
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Eden Bio can be difficult to find. One might think it would be hard to conceal almost 100 new public housing units in this part of Paris's 20th arrondissement, but local architect Édouard François has managed to do so, inserting rows of low-rise apartments, duplexes, and small houses into the middle of a city block while presenting a minimal, modest face to the street on three sides.
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More Building and Construction Cash-Flush Banks Race for Housing Projects — Business Daily Africa (Kenya), 2010.0507U.S. House Approves $6 Billion for Home Retrofit Rebates — USA Today, 2010.0506 EnergyStar for Multifamily High-Rises — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0505 Building Blocks Use Recycled Wood — Daily Journal of Commerce, 2010.0505 Seismology: The Biggest One — Nature, 2010.0505 In Costa Rica, a Home without Walls — New York Times, 2010.0504 London Architect to Design 20-Year Cleveland Clinic Growth Plan — Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2010.0504 Building Soul into Social Housing — The Globe and Mail, 2010.0430 Eco Roof Helps New Mall Beat the Heat — Malaysian Insider, 2010.0430 An Architectural Design for Life — Independent Digital, 2010.0430 Quake Analysis Rewrites History Books — Nature, 2010.0429 Battle Rages over Missouri's Investment in Tax Credits — St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2010.0429 DiManno: 75-Storey Condo a Sign City Ready to Rise Again — Toronto Star, 2010.0426 New Home Sales Jump 26.9 Percent in March — Reuters, 2010.0423 The Fate of New Constuction — Cooperator, 2010.0421 What Has Labour Done for Architecture? — Guardian Unlimited, 2010.0421 Plan for New Transbay Terminal in, under Budget — San Francisco Chronicle, 2010.0421 Rehab Loans Help First-Time Buyers Get Homes into Shape — Detroit Free Press, 2010.0418 Labour's Castles in the Air — Guardian Unlimited, 2010.0418 New Winter Haven Fire Station Blends Old and New Styles, Features — News Chief, 2010.0415 Rebuilding Haiti — Metropolis, 2010.0414 Mr. Applebaum Built His Dream House — The Brooklyn Paper, 2010.0414 The Incinerator as Eye Candy — New York Times, 2010.0413 Island Construction Picking Up — Vancouver Sun, 2010.0413 Who Killed Belltown's McGuire? The Cast of Characters — Sun Break, 2010.0411 Green Building Myth #1: It's More Expensive — FineHomebuilding.com, 2010.0408 It Isn't Easy Building Green — New York Times, 2010.0407 Haiti Earthquake - Looking for Lessons — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0407 Developers See Possibility (and Value) in Old Steel — New York Times, 2010.0407 A Glass Act — Cooperator, 2010.0403
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