By law architects must inform the CAA if their buildings or construction cranes exceed a certain height.
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Participants also recognized the process of building green economies and societies as a source of job creation in sectors such as renewable energy, energy efficiency in buildings and construction, sustainable transport, and organic farming.
"I like buildings under construction better than when they are finished because there's a kind of immediacy, a feeling of process, and it's accessible, " he continues, glancing up at his studio's exposed ductwork and hanging insulation.
He added that fire spread was a major concern at the incident, and that the Chief Fire Officers Association "was right to be increasingly concerned about the number and severity of fires in timber framed buildings under construction".
But that may only be because windows have yet to be installed in the dozens of skyscrapers sprouting in the Arab Gulf, home to 22 of the world's 50 tallest buildings under construction, 16 of those in Dubai alone.
Earlier this year, I announced a Better Buildings Initiative to rehire construction workers to make our buildings more energy-efficient.
The city's Department of Buildings ordered all construction citywide to be suspended from 2 p.m.
The opportunities for sustainable energy strategies are everywhere, beginning with the design of buildings, to construction processes, to insulation, the HVAC system, the lights, the water, the elevators, the power and cooling for technology, the heating and cooling for people.
As you can see, many of these items have a close correlation to construction and buildings.
Long carbon steel refers to tubular steel and steel rods, which are used almost completely for the construction of buildings and bridges.
The Daemokjang are in charge of the entire construction process, including the planning, design and construction of buildings, and the supervision of subordinate carpenters.
And, to get a basic point of reference, construction and demolition waste stems from the construction of buildings and civil infrastructure, total or partial demolition of buildings and civil infrastructure, road planning and maintenance most of which can be recycled in one way or another.
Drive east and you see the same, an undulent landscape carpeted with buildings completed or under construction, roads thick with traffic, and a few forlorn patches of the original Atlantic Forest or more recently transplanted eucalyptus trees to break up the relentless jumble of concrete.
These companies tend to focus on riskier loans such as construction projects and buildings with high vacancy that banks still shun.
Plenty of disquiet was expressed about the Private Finance Initiative, which brings private capital into the construction of public buildings, such as hospitals.
"The Japanese spend more of a premium on the construction of their buildings, " said professor Stephen Mahin of the University of California, Berkeley.
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Downtown Charlotte is booming with the new construction of office buildings.
Traffic hazards still included men pulling rickshaws laden with bricks and firewood but all along the route there were new buildings in various stages of construction.
At the margin, the property cycles might lead to the construction of better buildings, but such modest benefits are outweighed by the accompanying financial and economic instability.
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For instance, at George Tech they're trying to turn garbage into lava rock so it can be used for everything from paving roads to construction material for buildings.
The phase out would begin a little more than a year from now, but there also would be specific exemptions for five years on some construction uses in buildings.
Other education programmes include the nationwide Metrobank Math Challenge, the national College Scholarship Programme and an educational grants programme to fund construction of school buildings, curriculum development, and teacher training, among others.
The Moscow city government lowered the maximum allowable height of buildings in the historic center of the city from 100 to 75 meters, although buildings which are already under construction will not be lowered.
The homebuilding industry shrank again, but at a slower rate than in previous quarters, and the dampening effect on the economy was partly offset by a big increase in the construction of commercial buildings.
Other resource-efficient projects like New York's 4 Times Square office building, Atlanta's EarthCraft House and Village Habitat Design's cohousing conservation communities include such innovations as energy-efficient insulation, water and air filtration, or hydronic heating, aiming for healthy, nontoxic construction processes and buildings for humans and the environment.
Home construction might be flagging, but industrial construction--office buildings, schools, airports, bridges--is poised for growth.
Such collapses of buildings and other infrastructure projects under construction are fairly common in India.
The goal is to start construction on the new buildings in 2014.
For instance, government buildings are typically built by private construction companies.
Despite a construction boom in office buildings in the country's two business centers, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, the scarcity of office space has prices rivaling those in Singapore.
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