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Pneumatic Solution Brings Architecture to Life on one of LA's Newest Downtown Buildings
In the heart of Los Angeles, near the mega-city's town hall, a unique and environmentally-friendly office building performs a kind of architectural Tai Chi each day. Serving as the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) new District 7 Headquarters, the striking, $175 million structure
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Case Study: Kitchen Delivery VRC Lift
The Challenge: A customer recently purchased and remodeled an older building for use as a restaurant, and architectural plans placed the kitchen level above street level. This meant that food and beverage deliveries would have to be moved vertically between delivery and kitchen levels
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Chicago using ARMEX(R) Cleaning and Coating Removal Systems to Remove Graffiti from Buildings, Shelters
the graffiti, but it also removed brick finishes, mortar and the top layer of concrete. Sand blasting an Art Museum statue on Logan Square "rounded" the statue's stone, changing its architectural aesthetics. Looking for a less destructive method of removing graffiti, the Bureau investigated various
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Engineering: The last frontier of business process outsourcing
Until recently, many companies did not outsource their engineering activities because conventional wisdom says engineering is a core technology that should remain in-house. But today, product engineering is well on its way to becoming a mature industry, akin to civil engineering and architectural
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Hitting the Relational Wall: Beyond Relational Database Management Systems
operations. Attempts to scale the wall with relational technology lead to an explosion of tables, many joins, poor performance, poor scalability, and loss of integrity. ODBMSs offer a path beyond the wall. This paper measures the wall, explains what model and architectural differences cause it, how
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AERCO Helps JFK Library and Museum Join the High Efficiency Age
most revered architectural structures. The 135,000 square foot library/archive features a nine story, white precast concrete tower building, glass-enclosed pavilion and 18,000 square foot museum. Two 230-seat orientation theaters, the 20,000 square foot Stephen E. Smith Center and the adjoining
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Thermal spray: Better performance for less
to 2,100 F. Electric arc, also called twin wire arc, is a thermal-spray technique for metallic coatings with high internal porosity (10 to 15%). It permits fast deposition for thick coatings or large surface areas and can be used in situ for large applications such as bridges and architectural
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VIVID 3D Digitizer and Restoring Cultural Heritage (.pdf)
digitizers play a valuable role with larger architectural. structures where high resolution is required. The famous Altamira limestone cave in Spain was. closed in 1970 because of the enormous numbers. of visitors it attracted. The resulting increases in tem-. perature and humidity threatened