America’s
WWII memorial in Washington D.C. has finally become a reality, opening
to the public in late April and publicly dedicated May 29. Its placement
on the Mall between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial
symbolizes the War as one of the most important events in our nation’s
history.
In November, finalists for the proposed 2012 Olympic Village were
announced. The winning design will be announced in May. The final decision
on which city will host the 2012 Olympics will not be made until July
of 2005. See details of the NYC bid and the competing designs at www.NYC2012.com.
AIA Announced eleven 2004 PIA Housing Awards. http://www.aia.org/media/releases/040319.asp
NAHB announces Winners of 2004 National Green Building Awards http://www.nahb.org/news_details.aspx?newsID=807 Sawhorse Construction of Atlanta won the Remodeling award.
The EPA is accepting applications for the 3rd Annual Award for Smart
Growth – due on June 1, 2004 http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/awards.htm
A house in Malaysia called the Solar Hydrogen Ecohouse is purported
to be the first fully self-sustainable running entirely on hydrogen.
It was built as part of a university research program on the viability
of solar hydrogen technology. http://www.public.asu.edu/~dganapa/
Traffic experiment within a few California towns: a camera spots speeders
and slows them down by immediately turning the next traffic light red!
www.sfgate.com/ (from April 7 edition)
New technologies for breaking down garbage have hit the market. They
use intense heat and/or pressure to disintegrate garbage. The $30
million plants are already in use in Europe, Asia, and Australia.
(SciTech section of http://abcnews.go.com)
A five member team from ASU presented the winning scheme for the 2nd
annual national ULI competition – for their redesign of a Pittsburgh
Riverfront site, beating out teams from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT
for the honor. http://www.udcompetition.uli.org
ASHRAE has released a risk management strategy for building owners
to determine their level of risk in cas of an extraordinary event.
The report addresses health, comfort and environmental security issues.
Full report is available at: http://xp20.ashrae.org/about/extraordinary.pdf
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