The Marble Institute of America’s Accreditation Program has experienced its most active quarter of growth since the program’s first three months in existence. Activity in the commercial arena has been especially encouraging and ...
NSF Sustainability, a division of global independent public health organization NSF International, has verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for J+J Flooring Group’s Kinetex flooring product and Invision brand modular ...
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Planet Under Construction's?unique twist on traffic cone light art will make you do a double take upon your journey through Sydney, Australia's?Circular Quay station. The plans for this specialized railway system began back in 1909 when ...
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This year, the Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition, an annual awards program sponsored by Confindustria Ceramica (the Italian Association of Ceramics) and the Italian Trade Commission, attracted the most competitive pool of projects in the ...
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DuPont, in cooperation with PKO Bank Polski, the Union of Polish Architects (SARP), the Polish Green Building Council and Architizer.com, has announced the seventh edition of "Changing the Face" international architectural competition, ...
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The newly completed 62 Buckingham Gate building, hailed by Land Securities as the jewel of its extensive transformation of London's Victoria district, owes its striking glazed facade to Saint-Gobain Glass. Conceived by architects ...
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Installers from Josloff Glass working on the Terminal B Modernization at Newark International Airport. Photos by Ari Mintz Photography, www.arimintzphoto.com.2012 was another year of improvement for U.S contract glazing firms, with more ...
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Building upon a rich history in upholstery and decades of innovation in performance fabrics, Polartec, LLC is re-entering the contract upholstery business in partnership with industry leader C.F. Stinson, Inc. of Rochester Hills, Michigan. ...
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LUXE Linear Drains uses architectural grade, 100% stainless steel to produce a modern, stylish collection of linear channel drains and tile tray inserts for showers, tub to shower conversions or wetrooms in any residential or commercial ...
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PPG Industries’ coil and extrusion coatings group will debut NEWLAR powder coatings and highlight its existing line of DURANAR liquid and powder coatings at the 2013 American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention and Expo ...
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City College of San Francisco’s Glass Curtainwall Features Silk-Screened High-Definition Images Although the City College of San Francisco’s Chinatown/North Beach campus has operated from more than 30 different locations ...
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Intel wants to match PC battery life with that of tablets through its new dual-core fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell. Intel's fourth-generation Core i7 code-named Haswell, U-series dual-core laptop chip (1) The ...
In putting together this year's special report on kitchen remodeling trends, Consumer Reports spoke to designers, architects, remodeling contractors, among other professionals. But we also checked in with our Facebook fans to learn what ...
Kartell has announced that it inaugurated its first single brand store in Sanlitun Village as part of the agreement with the Chinese company, Gold Bond Enterprises. The Beijing flagship store for the first time in the world shows a new ...
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced recently that nearly 100 building projects across the globe are already using LEED v4, the next version of the LEED green building program, by participating in the LEED v4 beta. The beta ...
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