WoodWorks, an educational initiative of the Wood Products Council, will hold their next annual Wood Solutions Fair in Chicago at the UIC Forum on October 29, 2009. The all-day event is a free, multi-faceted educational event for anyone who is considering using wood in non-residential buildings.
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The multifunctional project combines a new courthouse, adult detention, juvenile detention and sheriff’s offices - all in close proximity to each other. Serving all of Santa Cruz County in Arizona, the three-story project includes a new jail facility with separate areas for adults and juveniles, a sheriff’s office and a new courts and administration building with courts, offices and public service areas.
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In a world without parking garages, parking lots would sprawl across our cities. For more than 100 years, the parking garage has provided design and engineering solutions to the parking problem. House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., is the first major exhibition to explore the history of this familiar structure and open conversations about innovative designs and parking solutions for the future.
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The U.S. Green Building Council is launching the Building Performance Initiative, designed to put in place a comprehensive data collection effort from all buildings that have achieved LEED certification; implement an appropriate analysis methodology of that data; and provide feedback to building owners so they have better information with which to address any performance gaps that stem from predicted building performance versus actual performance.
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