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 Solatube The problem of power saving is always actual. Today’s challenges of architects, designers and builders are in the innovation of building structures. One of the conjugate technical problems is the installation of daylight through the roof construction inside the premises to ensure their natural light. Continue reading
 High Power Flood LED lightings of the new innovative series of OSRAM lighting were used for the purpose that all visitors of The Trafford Centre in Manchester remembered the shopping for a long time. The ceiling of a trading hall is illuminated by High Power Flood lamps and imitates the colours, simulating the changes outside the building. Constructed on the basis of a very efficient Golden Dragon LED technology, High Power Flood lights provide a dynamic and smooth lightening effect that creates the visual impression of the sky while using very low level of energy. Continue reading  TECEdrainbase In the market there was the new working out of company TECE intended for bathrooms, – special sound-proof floor-mat TECEdrainbase. It is made of small particles of rubber and represents a dense shock-resistant composition. Structural feature of a floor-mat allows to extinguish noise (on 22 dB), formed at water falling on a ceramic tile on a floor per capita. It does not allow to a sound to extend on building overlappings that is especially important at arrangement of bathrooms in country houses. Continue reading  Brick by Aeonian Brick Homes Company Aeonian Brick Homes has announced that construction of the first house with the use of its new building should be completed by late summer 2009. Aeonian Brick Homes builds a house for one family, using its exclusive waterproof overlapping brick that can withstand wind speeds up to 240 miles per hour. Bricks in the walls of these houses do not burn, does not crack and do not support the growth of fungus and mold. In addition, the new house would be unfriendly to termites and other insects. Finally, the wall of the new brick provides 15 times greater degree of insulation than concrete blocks, which should reduce the cost of heating and cooling of homes by 50 percent. Continue reading  Hawaii DeBartolo Development Company contracted Tucker Sadler Architects to design the third-largest shopping center of Hawaii Ka Makana Ali’i. The invited architects saw this object as a regional center providing retail, commercial, office, hotel services, in addition, an entertainment center of a new urban development. This is a great opportunity to brake the expansion of the city and make the Ka Makana Ali’i as a model of lifestyle. Ka Makana Ali’i is reasonably growing building, which seeks to achieve an economic growth and provide a unique sense of belonging to community and place. Continue reading  Paris Nicolas Sarkozy seriously intends to change the capital of his state – Paris, the city of love and romance. According to French President the city of Paris will soon be competitive regarding the modern architecture, urban environment and transport infrastructure with such cities as New York and London. Continue reading  SentryGlas In construction, especially in business projects, in recent years widespread trend erecting tall buildings – hotels, business centers, to a lesser extent, residential homes. This is linked with many conditions, in particular so that the construction of tall buildings gives the opportunity to save the territory development, freeing them to other purposes. This high-rise buildings to higher requirements – they must be both safe and architecturally attractive. To ensure the safety of both their expression and a strong emphasis on the use of laminated glass. Developing solutions for the production of safety glass, different from the traditional (Polyvinyl butyral or PVB), provides an opportunity for designers, architects and designers use all the best properties of multilayer glass facades. In this article we examine the comparative characteristics of mechanical strength of multilayer glass with the use of traditional materials (PVB) and the new innumerous adhesive polymer layers SentryGlas ®, which are much stiffer and stronger than the PVB. Continue reading  Wilo-Drain LPC Self drain pump Wilo-Drain LPC is designed for wide application in construction, agriculture and industry. They are used for pumping dirty water with small solid particles from the ditches and ponds for irrigation and irrigation of green spaces and gardens for filtering tap water, as well as a wireless means for evacuating water. Continue reading  Stone-cutting saw Milwaukee KS 26 The engineers of Milwaukee designed a new stone-cutting saw Milwaukee KS 26. The principle of its actions consist in the oscillation of knife with high frequency, which dipper lip like of a hacksaw effectively cut into various «easy» materials – slag concretes, brick and other. Building and concrete blocks of high endurance are too tough for this saw. Continue reading  Industrial alpinism Construction assemblers are always appreciated, but steeplejacks at all times have been worth their weight in gold. Industrial climbers earn by using only ropes and special climbing equipment, perform work of any complexity that can not be done with traditional methods of building technologies. The demand for this kind of professionals has arisen in European countries and the United States with the beginning of construction boom in skyscrapers. Saving in a pure form – it is not necessary to raise the forest, the motion to override or stop the work shops, as it often happen, for example, during the repairs. There is no need to use the construction machinery, auto towers, mobile cranes. Naturally, the work of steeplejacks paid high enough, but in any case, the customer cost is much cheaper. Continue reading |
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