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What’s So Luxurious About Luxury Vinyl Tile, Part II: How LVT Supply Chains Are “Built on Repression”

Architizer

contracted a rare form of liver cancer and the pattern forced industry leaders to go public about the dangers they had kept hidden. The XUAR government estimates that it has deployed these programs 2.6 By the 1970s, PVC workers across the U.S. million times.” The heart of plastics production in the U.S.

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem

BD+C

Of those total emissions, building operations are responsible for 27% of annual global emissions, while embodied carbon emissions—the greenhouse gas emissions generated from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal of building materials—are responsible for 15% of annual GHG emissions.

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From Cubicles to Community: The Future City. (Part 2)

Community Architect

The US is estimated to need about 3.8 For example, transportation: Self driving electric cars could mean lots of added pedestrian safety, much less space devoted to parking and generally shared car usage. Transport technology could diminish instead of increase the quality of urban life.

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Part 2: Reanimating Woodward Avenue's Street-cars: The M1 Rail Project

A Detroit Architect's Journal

Known at the M1 light-rail project, the estimated $137 million dollar project will place a fixed-rail streetcar system within Woodward avenue's median and organize 11 stops between Grand Boulevard and Congress Street. A second contract for six streetcars will be released later this year. earthquake. The P.C.C.

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Grant Associates, British Landscape Architects

e-architect

The Shenzhen Bay Culture Park is a 9-ha mixed use new development. Grant Associates’ design defines the open spaces and sets the scene by framing views and screening adjacent developments – providing visitors with the opportunity to appreciate heritage within an authentic and biodiverse setting. Martineau Galleries Development.

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A Canopy Where it Counts

Landscape Architecture Magazine

All told, hundreds of thousands of trees were estimated lost—about 65 percent of the city’s urban canopy. These efforts have contributed momentum to the city’s recovery while the plan has been developed. That strategy also allows the community to scale up its planting capacity and local growers to develop the plant materials needed.

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Ten industrial design and technology projects from students at Brunel University

Deezen

They are encouraged to iteratively explore solutions to current and future challenges and develop prototypes to both communicate their vision and prove the practical design principles. Coworking offices are rising in popularity due to their flexibility and affordability compared to long-term contracts. 3rd mode by Kirsty Patterson.