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Starchitecture Map: Nasty Brutalist And Short: D.C.'s Famous Mid-Century Buildings

2014-06-04 14:20:21| Real Estate - Topix.net

Brutalism is a style prominent in the District of Columbia but very divisive. Any number of Federal buildings and famous hotels owe a lot to the brutalist architecture and yet there are still buildings of that style that garner titles like, " Ugliest Church in D.C. ."

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Future-Proofing Buildings Against Natural Disasters

2014-06-03 15:51:00| National Real Estate Investor

When Hurricane Sandy landed on the East Coast on October 29, 2012, more than 55,000 buildings in New York City and its surrounding regions were rendered completely uninhabitable, displacing millions of people from their homes and offices and making the metro area temporarily obsolescent. Since then, many metropolitan New York companies have used their experience of the storm to rethink the built environment. The very different lessons learned by three companies may help start a conversation on taking precautions against future disasters. read more

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Quaking: LA About to Comb Through 12k Buildings For 'Quake Threat

2014-05-30 04:02:54| Real Estate - Topix.net

Los Angeles is finally getting serious about prepping for an earthquake; in what's being called "the most aggressive action on earthquake safety in nearly three decades," the City Council has voted to have the Department of Building and Safety hire three new employees whose sole jobs will be to comb through LADBS records to find the exact number of ... (more)

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01/07/2014 - BIFM Joint East Region & Sustainability SIG event – Low energy buildings including Passivhaus

2014-05-29 15:42:54| BIFM Events

Operating a Passivhaus building at the University of East Anglia (UEA); visit to the next one being constructed; and a retrofitted energy reducing device.

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International Living Future Institute Widens Its Reach Beyond Buildings

2014-05-28 18:21:11| ENR.com: Headline News

Group launches Living Future Challenge, which is a framework for remaking all kinds of systems in the built environment.

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