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[ad_1] INSIGHT ADVICE ON COMBATTING COMMON ISSUES WITH SMART THERMOSTATIC CONTROLS Alastair McLean, of McLean Electricals, talks through common issues with smart thermostatic controls, and takes a look at features found in the next generation of heating controls. A home equipped with the latest heating technologies that still struggles to keep its occupants warm …

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[ad_1] A former power station in east Leeds could soon become one of the district’s major industrial estates, according to new documents submitted to Leeds City Council. According to new proposals from developers Harworth, the site of Skelton Grange Power Station could soon become nearly 75,000 square metres of “industrial, storage or distribution” space. This …

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[ad_1] Sketchbox, Target Finder, and Portfolio Manager set and evaluate energy targets. There’s a growing trend among building owners and design teams to specify energy use targets for commercial new construction projects. Recently, thanks to more data from benchmarking existing buildings and lessons learned on how to optimize energy in buildings, building owners have grown …

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[ad_1] Flood should be Malaysia’s core disaster management focus area, and this will require drastic investments in immediate and long-term strategies. Non-structural solutions Flood experts and hydrologists generally agree that an ideal framework for flood management must have a balanced combination of structural and non-structural solutions. Non-structural solutions include early warning systems (forecasting and detections), …

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[ad_1] Sparta — English Language teacher Alec Dood, whose class recently shared the “glow games” literary experience with Jenna Conlin’s class, said “every student was engaged” in the ultimate, black-out, neon experience at Sparta Middle School. As students rotated stations that included challenges such as cup pong,  water bottle flip, football toss and bowling, they …

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[ad_1] Thanks to the pandemic-imposed urgency to swiftly ramp up, expand and set up new health infrastructure in the race to outrun the viral mutations, healthcare professionals, architects and planners are investigating adaptive reuse as an alternative approach to rampantly building more infrastructure. In the past few decades, we have witnessed the emergence of new …

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[ad_1] Dwelling Place wants to build 42 single-family starter homes in Garfield Park near property that was formerly home to St. Joseph Seminary. (Rendering provided by Dwelling Place) GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A proposal by Dwelling Place to build 42 single family homes for low- to moderate-income residents in Grand Rapids’ Garfield Park neighborhood is …

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[ad_1] A $3 million renovation of the “enchilada red” Central Library downtown has started. The funding for improvements to the first, third and sixth floors comes from voter approval of the City of San Antonio’s 2017-2022 Bond Program. “Our services extend far beyond the walls of our libraries, but our facilities are the home base,” …

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[ad_1] First published in the Dec. 18 print issue of the Burbank Leader. The Burbank City Council this week moved toward raising the fees charged for new development, a change that would boost funding for public improvements.Burbank has not updated its development impact fees — or DIFs — since 1993, though they rise annually with …

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[ad_1] Bright lines of yellow builders’ string, rolls of primary-colored packing tape, flat-head screws tagged with tiny strips of pastel-toned paper: Anne Tallentire’s sculptural materials can be both rudimentary—practical nonprecious items, often associated with different stages of an architectural process, from preliminary drawing to actual on-site construction—and, in their unorthodox configurations, tidily decorative. Her artworks …

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