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In harnessing solar energy, the usual approach is to bolt an array of panels onto the roof of a building and plug it in. But recent advances such as building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) allow designers to incorporate solar cells seamlessly into a building's exterior. Canadian glass artist Sarah Hall is taking this idea in a novel direction by using solar technology to create a striking contemporary version of stained glass that illuminates the aesthetic potential of PV. (Published in the Context department this week)
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One aspect of civilization that the Romans got right was the tiled bath. Since then, Europeans have built tiled bathrooms that present no distinction between the shower and the rest of the room. This success of this design depends on lots of tile and a mortar substrate that slopes to a strategically placed floor drain. A lack of thresholds also makes this kind of bathroom perfect for wheelchair access. Published 2012.0411
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Architectural Products Around the Web Fire Resistance Glass – Museumpark in Rotterdam, Netherlands — Glass on the Web, 2012.0606SoCalGas Tests Unusual Solar Air Conditioner — Los Angeles Times, 2012.0525 Philips Has LED Flood Light — Jetson Green, 2012.0521 Martin Marietta and Vulcan Materials Upgraded — BusinessWeek, 2012.0521 US Imposes 31% Duty on Chinese Solar Panels — Environmental Leader, 2012.0518 Stuff You See at an Architects Convention — Washington City Paper, 2012.0518 Weyerhaeuser Offering Rebates on OSB Building Products — Weyerhaeuser Press Release, 2012.0518 Solar Paint Technology May Revolutionize the Renewable Energy Industry — Global Warming is Real, 2012.0517 LG Announces More Efficient HVAC Products — LG Press Release, 2012.0517 Welcome to Hemp House? — Santa Maria Sun, 2012.0516 Custom Concrete Building Components from Digital Designs — Product Design & Development, 2012.0516 Guardian Industries and Soladigm to Jointly Deliver the Soladigm Dynamic Glass — AZo Build, 2012.0514 Fire-Rated Cladding Key to Safe Buildings — Gulf News, 2012.0514 Design for Durability and Maintenance: We Have a Problem — Core77, 2012.0511 Rise in Residential Investment May Help Home Depot-Lowe’S — Bloomberg, 2012.0510 Lighting Science Group Announces New LED Lighting Products — Lighting Science Group Press Release, 2012.0510 Empire State Building Transitioning to LED Lighting — Sustainable Business, 2012.0509 The Challenges of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics — Renewable Energy World, 2012.0508 Wienerberger Brick Award 2012 — Building Products, 2012.0508 Shaping the Future of Building Design — WAN Press Release, 2012.0430 Free Fire Door Seminar at the Building Centre, London — Building Products, 2012.0430 SuDs Conference Ahead of New Legislation — Building Products, 2012.0426 Lusio Solid-State Lighting Releases New iPad App — Lusio Press Release, 2012.0424 Lusio Solid-State Lighting Releases New iPad App — Lusio Press Release, 2012.0424 Guardian Glass Featured on Award-Winning Mercy Corps Headquarters — Glass Magazine, 2012.0424 Phase Change Materials — Construction Digital, 2012.0423 Reliable Steel to Build Living Homes with GigaCrete Materials — Phototron Press Release, 2012.0419 Retrofit of Houston Skyscraper Uses CertainTeed Ecophon Ceiling Panels — CertainTeed Press Release, 2012.0417 Q&A: Kevin Theobald — Metropolis Magazine, 2012.0416 Salvaging Wood and Fixtures from Buildings Is an Earth-Friendly Trend — Detroit Free Press, 2012.0415
Note: Pages will open in a new browser window Design Tools Around the Web Rethinking Workstation Design — AEC Magazine, 2012.0604Create Structural Plan View — Revit Building Coder Blog, 2012.0601 AutoCAD 2013 Review — Desktop Engineering, 2012.0601 3D Printers: Go Pro for Less Dough — Desktop Engineering, 2012.0601 Tips and Tricks Learned During Chamfer Fillet for Revit PIOTM Development — AEC DevBlog, 2012.0601 Changing the LineSpacingFactor for an Aligned Dimension — AutoCAD DevBlog, 2012.0601 An Interview with Autodesk’S Ananda Arasu — Autodesk User Group International, 2012.0601 HP Unveils Its New Z-Series Workstations. — Desktop Engineering, 2012.0601 Technology Product Highlights from AIA 2012 Expo: Part 2 — AECbytes, 2012.0531 Autodesk 2013 — AEC Magazine, 2012.0530 ...Until It's Over. Or at Least, over Until the Next DWG Appeal — WorldCAD Access, 2012.0530 Graitec Advance Steel 2012 — AEC Magazine, 2012.0530 SmartGeometry: Material Intensities — AEC Magazine, 2012.0530 BIM in the Cloud — AEC Magazine, 2012.0529 AIA: Show Floor Gallery Report-1 — Architosh, 2012.0524 Technology Product Highlights from AIA 2012 Expo: Part 1 — AECbytes, 2012.0524 Carl Bass: Think of Computing as Though It Were Infinite — Design & Motion, 2012.0523 Starting a New Drawing in AutoCAD — CAD Panacea, 2012.0523 New Dell Workstations with NVIDIA Maximus Dual-GPU Architecture — Desktop Engineering, 2012.0523 Sunglass Brings Slick 3D Modeling to the Browser — Tech Crunch, 2012.0522 AutoCAD LT 2012 Service Pack 2 Released — Autodesk, 2012.0522 ArchiCAD 16 - the Morph Tool — CADimage, 2012.0522 Adding an Accurate Location in ArchiCAD — CADimage, 2012.0522 How to Render 3D Images on Your iPad for Free — CNet, 2012.0521 Create Line Based Generic Model Family Instance — AEC DevBlog, 2012.0521 AutoCAD 2012 Service Pack 2 Released — Autodesk, 2012.0520 Autodesk's Q1 "Solid, Uneven" — Schnitger Corporation, 2012.0518 Autodesk Reports 11 Percent First Quarter Revenue Growth — Autodesk Press Release, 2012.0517 Hide Vs. Suppressed in SolidWorks Assemblies — Solidworks Blog, 2012.0517
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