"Building ground up could be the smarter thing to do, but it doesn't make headlines, " he smiles.
In terms of other eco-features, the new EACH building has ground heat-pumps, but not solar panels.
New-building approvals ground to a halt, and new construction fell by 40%.
Kobel says between 500 and 700 people are working on the project at any time, building below ground while the old station continues to function above.
The new building contains a 65-vehicle automated lot, a 24-unit apartment building and ground floor retail in a space that once housed a 100-vehicle car park.
Meanwhile, at downtown's rival office neighborhood, Hudson Yards, on the Far West Side, the first building broke ground in December, at a ceremony where developer Stephen Ross beamed, flanked by the city's heavyweights in business and politics.
We have 191 million buildings in the EU. The mission now is to convert the entire building stock of Europe to partial green power plants that can collect solar energy on the roofs, wind energy off the sides of the building, geothermal energy from the ground below the building, biomass energy from the conversion of garbage in the building, etc.
The fire, which was brought under control three hours after it started, burned the building to the ground, Russian news agencies reported.
Cisco is building from the ground up with Quad and is looking to leverage its strengths in voice and video into enterprise social.
As for the fixed assets (like the building and the ground), those will probably have a lower value than stated on the balance sheet.
Mr Joseph said the Fifa official took him to the nearest toilet, which was in the main building of the ground in the public area, and that the two later exchanged business cards.
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Cosmo Fujiyama, 23, lives in Honduras full time to coordinate the group's building efforts on the ground.
Building a more accurate ground-based interferometer is impossible because of atmospheric turbulence, which makes the stars seem to dance around.
While he has spoken with several candidates, brokers say the building's confined ground floor and other eccentricities may have discouraged some potential tenants.
She delivered an address calling for a strategic partnership between UNESCO and the European Union, building on the common ground shared by the two Organizations.
The consultative conference was called by the board of directors at New Road and the full extent of the problems was spelt out to fans, but the board reiterated their determination to pursue the building of a new ground at Nunnery Way.
When building a company from the ground up, conventional wisdom says to always think long term.
They also preach patience to Afghans, saying that building their country from the ground up takes time.
The rifle that authorities believe Holmes used in the attack lay on the ground near the building.
The firm has broken ground on a building near the port project and is talks to build another building there.
On Tuesday night, in another part of town, a building suddenly collapsed when the ground beneath it subsided, killing 25 people.
If we were building the Net from the ground up knowing what we know today, authentication might have figured into the core in a way absent today.
One of Dykes' next-door neighbors said the suspect spent two or three months constructing the bunker, digging several feet into the ground and then building a structure of lumber and plywood, which he covered with sand and dirt.
Volunteer firemen from Quebec racing to fight a hotel blaze in upstate New York late last year were detained so long at the border that by the time they reached the scene the building had burned to the ground.
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And while not all start-ups have the ambience (or the budgets) of sexy tech companies, and not all are run by a visionary who will put you on the fast-track to Facebook-like stock options, many new businesses offer a unique opportunity to learn the ins and outs of building an organization from the ground up.
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The old building had burnt nearly to the ground before they had been able to stop it.
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