It's a feature primarily to encourage worker interaction, but in a building the size of Google's offices, it keeps employees mobile.
"It's wrong to erect a building of that size in that space, " he says.
One of the highlights in the book is his passion for building full-size helicopters.
What is unusual for a building of this size is the number of parking spaces, just 48.
"In a building of this size, there's a lot that has to be maintained, and a lot that has to be fixed, " Welch said.
He dreams of building gigawatt-size plants, of shipping solar thermal power to the cloudy Northeast and of using molten salt to store energy so thermal plants can power homes at night. (Nevada Solar One is only for daytime peak loads.) He envisions mirrors in space that can soak up sunlight 24 hours a day.
That bucked the trend for the mutual sector and is twice the amount expected for a building society of its size.
The big bane of so-called advanced biofuels is that while they can be produced readily in the lab, building factories of meaningful size is extraordinarily difficult.
Given 326, 000 gallons in 1 acre-foot, that would mean building roughly 10 plants the size of Poseidon's.
The temporary building is about the same size as a football pitch.
The clock the size of a building, which will still take a number of years to complete, is being constructed deep in the Sierra Diablo Mountain Range, Texas.
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The traditional construction processes require both technical skills to design the building with consideration to its size, site and function, and aesthetic sense to select the lumber for the construction materials, cut and shape the wood, and assemble and interlock the separate wooden pieces without using nails, creating the so-called joints that withstand a millennium.
This could shrink the size and cost of building giant accelerators, which produce sub-atomic particles.
And this is a seven-story dorm building, so an air conditioner unit for a building like that is pretty good size.
The new development is almost twice the size of the old building.
In addition to new stores opening this spring in Saudi Arabia and on London's Mount Street, the New York City flagship on Madison Avenue will double in size after expanding into the building next door.
Mr Romney's headquarters, in a drab low-rise building in Boston, is a fraction the size of Mr Obama's.
We are not seeking to increase the size of the existing footprint of the building.
Finally, the different physical size of VHS and Beta tapes made building dual-format decks impractical.
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Famous for its size -- the warehouse-like building stretches for an entire city block -- this location is just one of five Powell's stores in the city.
There's lot of extra space in the building now, but if Hamm really does manage to triple the size of Continental in five years, it would be about the size that Devon is now.
Over in Germany, researchers unveiled a technique that harnesses the power of lightning to break up concrete into usable building materials and scientists at MIT built a tiny, caterpillar-size robot that can transform into almost any shape.
He sees it as the equivalent in size and market power of Abbey National, before that former building society was bought by Santander.
At Richard Meier's two 15-story luminescent glass towers rising along the edge of New York City's Greenwich Village overlooking the Hudson River, the minimum apartment size is one floor-1, 800 square feet in the north building, 3, 700 in the south building.
"It's not a good idea to be this size, " says Mr. Lee, who is also in charge of building other large factories for Hon Hai.
To celebrate the design, it created a full-size model of part of this open space in the massive hangar-like building where parts of the ship were being built in Finland.
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And the fireman never responded, but the guy in front of us said that if it had been a passenger plane" -- meaning a full-size jet like the one that had, in fact, crashed into the building -- "we'd all be down.
The building involved is single storey and approximately 82ft (25m) by 49ft (15m) in size.
After all, in spite of Israel's sure knowledge last summer that Hamas and Iran would use a cease-fire with Israel to increase the size of Hamas's missile arsenal and expand the range of its projectiles while building up its forces, the Olmert-Livni-Barak government agreed to the cease-fire.
But building a giant battery using dry-cell technology would require thousands of individual cells - about the size of a soft drinks can - to be strung together in a massive installation.
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