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Solar Power Tower Beings Operation Following the conclusion of the successful three-day production and operational testing period, Abengoa Solar has begun commercial operation of the new PS20 solar power tower plant located at the Solúcar Platform, near Seville (Spain) Full Story |
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Cow Dung Building Bricks Win Global Social Venture Competition Making high-quality bricks from abundantly available cow dung – instead of depleting scarce firewood and clay – earned the EcoFaeBrick team from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia the $25,000 top prize at the tenth annual Global Social Venture Competition at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business this weekend Full Story |
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Off Grid Living In a Sustainable Modern Yurt Everett Boutilett and Louis Johnson always had the intention of building a small, energy efficient dwelling. Although their original plans were to build an earth sheltered home, a close friend convinced them that a yurt might be the way to go Full Story |
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LED Lights Become Feature of Hotel Refurbishment The Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Regensburg now has yet another attraction. In the newly refurbished conference room known as the “Light” room, linear modules with Golden Dragon LEDs from OSRAM are used to create any lighting of any mood, color and intensity Full Story |
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Floor Graphics Being Used To Help The Disabled The latest floor graphics technology from MacDermid Autotype, the leading European manufacturer of specialised hard coated films and chemicals, is being used by one of the UK's Independent Living Centres, which demonstrates equipment and aids for people with disabilities Full Story |
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National Children's Museum Reveals New Building Design The National Children's Museum (NCM) today unveiled plans for its new Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed building, slated to open in 2013 at National Harbor, as a physical demonstration of the Museum's mission to inspire children to care about and improve the world Full Story |
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Toxic Chinese Drywall Now Found Causing Problems In Texas Toxic Chinese drywall building materials have now been discovered in significant quantities in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolina's, Virginia, Maryland, Arizona, Nevada, California, and now Texas Full Story |
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New LED Light From OSRAM Advanced Power TopLED Plus is the new optimized LED from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors which has been designed particularly for architectural and sales lighting Full Story |
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Environmentally Friendly Artificial Turf Infill Introduced Envirofill is a long lasting and ecofriendly alternative, for artificial turf infilling. As a premium choice that's ideal for sports fields or residential landscaping, Envirofill has been subjected to rigorous testing procedures - and will stand the test of time as a performance infill Full Story |
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Skil Introduce Range of Cordless Tools SKIL Power Tools powers up its lithium ion collection with a new line of cordless 18 Volt Lithium Ion tools giving home project enthusiasts and professionals the enhanced performance, durability and convenience they need to tackle any project at affordable prices Full Story |
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Glass New York City Ticket Booth Built Using DuPont SentryGlas In a structure as theatrical as the shows for which it sells tickets, the TKTS Booth, long a fixture in the heart of New York City’s Times Square, has been made over into a glass structure that would not have been possible without the strength and protection of DuPont SentryGlas interlayers Full Story |
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PolyOne Releases New Cables for Solar Panels PolyOne Corporation, has added compounds for cables used in solar panels to its portfolio of sustainable solutions. The protective cable insulation and jacketing made from PolyOne's ECCOH compounds can be found in solar cells that convert sunlight into electricity Full Story |
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Engineers Develop Better Way For Spraying Concrete WACKER application engineers wanted to reduce rebound during spraying concrete while also making the sprayed concrete water resistant. They developed polymeric additives for sprayed concrete for tunnel construction, making a major contribution toward building a new tunnel for the Stetten salt mine Full Story |
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ABB to Build Hybrid Integrated Solar Power Plant ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $14 million to provide a complete electrical balance of plant (eBoP) solution for a 150-megawatt (MW) integrated, combined-cycle solar power plant under construction in Algeria Full Story |
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Conceptual Design Released for New York Storm Surge Barrier ARCADIS, the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, today announced that it has provided an idea of what a storm surge barrier aimed at protecting the New York and New Jersey Metropolitan Region from severe coastal flooding might look like Full Story |
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Top 10 Areas in the United States for Decorative Concrete Revealed Closing out the first quarter, web statistics generated by ConcreteNetwork.com reveal the top ten metropolitan areas in the US for decorative concrete services. More concrete contractors were contacted in these ten areas than any other major metropolitan area across the country to apply decorative concrete techniques in homes and businesses Full Story |
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