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Habitat for Humanity wrecks houses

Various Habitat for Humanity (HFH) locations across the country currently utilize volunteer “wrecking crews.” The nonprofit...
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Sustainability 76: the high performance building façade

As our cities build higher and higher, building façades play an increasing role in energy consumption and conservation relative to building roofs...
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Sustainability 72: acetylated wood

In their search for the ideal sustainable exterior finish wood — whether for windows, doors, decks or siding — architects can now add...
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Cleveland Medical Mart digs in

What happens when you let hundreds of men with really big toys loose on a downtown mall? They demolish it. Luckily, that was exactly the intent...
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Houses Demolished by Staged Hurricane

We have all seen the damage done to the coastlines of the country when hurricanes do what hurricanes do. High speed winds, hail, and unending rain...
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Breaking news: Watch man climb Millennium Tower in San Francisco (live video)

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  • September 6, 2010
Click here to see live video of a man climbing Millennium Tower in San Francisco. It appears he is using only suction cups to make his ascent....
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Building Dreams

Second Life's Dreams is a place for people to let their imaginations play freely and learn new building skills in a supportive, friendly...
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Designing a real life house in Second Life (video)

Building a Second Life house on real life plans Architecture is one of the fields where professionals are finding Second Life to be a very...
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Make a video screen and watch videos on your Second Life land - part two

Last week in part one I told you how to build a simple screen for watching videos on your land. Today I’m going to show you how to get video...
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Make a video screen and watch videos on your Second Life land - part one

Watching video in Second Life's Star Trek Museum Last week I posted a three part series (part one, part two, and part three) about making better...
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