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Mike Holmes set " to Make It Right" in Sudbury | Building green a focus for HGTV star (www.northernontariobusiness.com)Due to break ground this fall, every aspect of the “green village” pilot project will be built at above LEED Platinum, from the houses to the schools, from the sewage systems to the street lights.Streets, sidewalks and driveways will be heated by geothermal technology, doing away with the need for winter salting or the danger of frost-and-heave.
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Mayor of London announces 10 low carbon neighbourhoods (www.london.gov.uk)Energy 'doctors' and loans for solar panels are among the green projects which will be pioneered in 10 'low carbon zones' in the capital, the Mayor of London announced today.
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powerWISE - Resources - powerWISE House (powerwise.ca)The powerWISE House is your one-stop online tool for home conservation tips and energy saving hints, with over 20 power saving and conservation techniques that highlight how you can significantly reduce your own home electricity use.
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City of Portland launches 500 home Green energy retrofit pilot Program (www.cleanenergyworksportland.org)The pilot offers homeowners access to low-cost financing for energy efficiency home improvements, like new insulation or the installation of a high efficiency furnace or water heater. To help decide which upgrades and financing options make sense, participants will receive the assistance of a qualified Energy Advocate throughout the process.
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The Greening of Pittsburgh (www.nytimes.com)A number of century-old landmarks have been revived as energy-efficient buildings in the last decade, and several major projects, both new and retrofits, will open this spring.Years before national environmental building standards were set in 2000, Pittsburgh began experimenting in sustainability as local architects, engineers and academics debated how to reuse old industrial sites.
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EcoHouse Construction in Photo's (www.radianproject.org)Watch the construction process from Baberg England as a local demonstration EcoHouse is constructed
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City plans $10M in affordable housing (www.thesudburystar.com)The city has applied for nearly $10.7 million from the Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program, to help finance three private-sector housing developments proposed for the community.The three projects proposed for Greater Sudbury including a 64-bed, $7.8-million seniors' housing complex planned by Dalron Construction.
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Callander postpones $2 million rink roof due to Project Costs (www.nugget.ca)Construction of a $1.8-million roof over the outdoor rink at Yarlasky Park in Callander will be delayed because bids for the project have come back too high.Mayor Hec Lavigne said the project has been put back in the hands of the architect to be revamped so that the price tag meets the $1.8-million budget set by the municipality.
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OFF Architecture’s Visionary Eco-Bridge Spans the Bering Strait (www.inhabitat.com)n one of the most ambitious examples of speculative architecture of the year, Paris-based OFF Architecture recently unveiled an incredible eco-bridge spanning the Bering Strait from Russia to the United States
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Futureshack. A Neighbourhood Architectural Competition (futureshack.aiaseattle.org)A new residential architecture program for our times, Future Shack celebrates progressive solutions for urban living across a wide range of building types, budgets, constraints, and social agendas.
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Design contract for North Bay Sports complex approved (www.baytoday.ca)The new outdoor sports complex is inching closer and closer to being shovel-ready, according to Councillor Dave Mendicino. Monday night, City Council approved a $481,175 contract issued to John Georges Associates to design said sports complex.
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Elliot Lake chooses multi-use building with cheaper roof (www.elliotlakestandard.ca)Elliot Lake city council is continuing its chase of a proposed $30.6 million multi-use recreation building and chose one of two designs for further study.The two design options were brought before the July 13 council meeting by architect Gene Kinoshita, of Cannon Designs, a Baltimore-based design firm. Council directed the architect to work on the first design.The second option was very similar to the first, but featured a different roof. The second option was to have the roof curve, like a wave. Council decided to stick with a simpler and cheaper roof design.
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North Bay Waterfront Underpass now open (www.baytoday.ca)With the construction of the pedestrian underpass, the link has been restored. Our community can once again walk from the downtown core to the waterfront.
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Saving Wetaskiwins Water Tower (www.rewedmonton.ca)Nearby communities of Camrose, Ponoka and Leduc have demolished their water towers and Rimbey is preparing to yank theirs down. Two years ago, Hintons 1955 tower came tumbling down from the force of dynamite and steel-cutting explosives.
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Australian Institute of Architects Gallery (www.architecture.com.au)Over 3000 projects in the database
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The Oregon Experiment after Twenty Years (web.archive.org)A lengthy piece looking at Eugene Oregon's university experiment with community based planning and campus buildingsphoto by: ozvoldjj
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Eastgate Centre, Harare -Biomimicry Building (en.wikipedia.org)Award winning revolutionary passive cooling/heating building modeled after termites!
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Sault tries to sell brewery property - (www.thesudburystar.com)A minimum tender of $465,792.67 was requested -- the equivalent of tax arrears plus interest and penalties owed to the city at that time.City treasurer and commissioner of finance Bill Freiburger has written to the federal government -- which currently has two liens against the property -- to determine their intention and if the property could be sold through their means, which would be similar to a tax sale, with the federal government attempting to reap their financial loses.
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City awards reconstruction contract for Bell Park amphitheatre (www.thesudburystar.com)The Castellan group was one of five bidders for city contracts worth $351,000 for conceptual design, detailed design and construction contract administration for the amphitheatre redevelopment.The $5-million demolition and reconstruction project is fully approved, based on funding commitments of more than $1.6 million each from the three levels of government. The funding was announced last month, under a federal-provincial- municipal infrastructure renewal program.
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Building Technologies - Multimedia Building Monographs (www.columbia.edu)This project documents the constructive details of major American architectural projects using a variety of multimedia and graphic techniques. The project is partially supported by a University grant. Some of the graphics were done by students enrolled in both GSAP Building Technologies and Computer courses.
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Boxcar home re-created in Capreol (www.northernlife.ca)Boxcars were converted into homes in Capreol to house CNR workers and families when there was a shortage of housing. The project began in early May and was completed in June.
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Rural Studio - Architectural Projects (www.cadc.auburn.edu)The mission of the Rural Studio is to enable each participating student to cross the threshold of misconceived opinions to create/design/build and to allow students to put their educational values to work as citizens of a community. The Rural Studio seeks solutions to the needs of the community within the community's own context, not from outside it.
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Who killed the U.K. eco-town project? (www.architectsjournal.co.uk)Eco-towns are dead. Architects, planners and developers alike are asking: who killed them?Gordon Brown wanted to unveil plans for 10 carbon-neutral communities that would deliver up to 200,000 new homes on cheap government-owned land in the greenbelt by 2020.
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2nd Year Undergraduate Ecohouse project (www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca)65 photo's from the Univ. of Waterloo 2nd yr Project. Architectural drawings for an eco-house
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The house that Mike built (www.theglobeandmail.com)You know me as they guy who rescues homeowners from bad renovations, who says "take it all down" and makes it right. I'll tell you, as a contractor, I'm sick of fixing crap. There's nothing better than building it right the first time.
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