In October, Chicago preservationists' fight to save Bertrand Goldberg's historic Prentice Women's Hospital from demolition ended in disappointment. With the blessing of city officials and over the objections of renown architects like Frank ...
Tags: Shiny Glass, Construction Glass
The design and placement of glass is a vital component of green architecture. It allows for natural light and integrates the interior of office and residential buildings with the exterior. Natural light improves productivity in the ...
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It is reported that Taiwanese China Steel Corp. (CSC) planned to get into Myanmar market by three different ways. First, Myanmar State-owned steel company has tried to seek for CSC's assistance in doing its electric furnace's improvement ...
Tags: Myanmar Market, Mineral
In the construction of modern buildings, glass has become an essential component. With modern technology, the permutation of glass types has been both varied and exciting. There have been applications in both small and large amounts - from ...
Tags: Glass, Energy Saving Glass, Safety Glass, Decorative Glass, Flat Glass
Nothing gets reads like a shadow banking story. Articles on China's local government debt pull page views too, conjuring images of small-town officials erecting enormous stadiums or skyscrapers on the edges of corn fields. Often left out of ...
Tags: Chinese Companies, Debt Crisis
Visitors and cars at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt Germany. (LEDinside/Robe Lighting) Over 2000 Robe Lighting LEDWash fixtures are in action on a series of high profile stands – including Audi, BMW, Mini. Opel, ...
During the past decade the telecommunication industry has seen a sea of change occurring all over the world with the introduction of new and more efficient technologies which help in a more quality driven communication between people who ...
Tags: Guyed Mast Towers, Telecom Towers
Dubai has its famed Burj Khalifa, but the world’s tallest building is getting a lot of company these days with the business of building skyscrapers suddenly booming as the global economy recovers. The Shanghai Skyline (photo by ...
Tags: Skyscrapers
David Graas used a 3D printer to create this illuminating high rise inspired Huddle lamp collection. Like a cluster of tall city buildings huddled together, these skyscrapers reach high into the rooms with glory and light. Source: ...
Glass LLC, glass pioneers in the Middle East and wholly-owned by Dubai Investments PJSC [DI], announced on Thursday that its coating lines, comprising subsidiaries Emirates Glass LLC [EGL] and Saudi American Glass, have won projects worth ...
Tags: glass, Construction, Decoration
Glass LLC, glass pioneers in the Middle East and wholly-owned by Dubai Investments, said its coating lines, comprising subsidiaries Emirates Glass and Saudi American Glass, have won projects worth AED 100 million from January 2013 till date ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
This “pinkhouse” at Caliber Biotherapeutics in Texas, grows 2.2 million plants under the glow of blue and red LEDs. The practice of vertical farming could potentially undergo a transformation that will make urban food centres ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lighting
With its rich architectural heritage, Chicago takes skyscrapers seriously. So when a glassy, 40-story Helmut Jahn-designed tower built in 1980 underwent rebranding to attract new tenants, the end result had to be worthy of distinction. ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED products, LED, lighting
Till April 12th, Shanghai Tower, Shanghai's new landmark under construction, had completed core cylinder structure pour for 108 storeys of its main building. Its height reached 501.3m, surpassed neighbors of 421m Jinmao Tower and 492m ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Premature or untimely weakening or crumbling of cement concrete structures due to corrosion of rebars is indeed a big problem, both financially and technically. According to some recent studies, it shows that many countries worldwide spend ...