Reading between the lines of these wildly disparate valuations, one could almost imagine a future without buildings.
Leading companies like Starbucks, which enrolled all its US retail stores in the Challenge, and SUPERVALU, which is building an energy efficient grocery store of the future, are showing that better buildings mean better businesses.
The more indirect options the majority preferred were making sure new buildings were stronger and reducing future coastal development.
Project Frog, the San Francisco startup behind the 7-Eleven store, is dragging a 19th-century industry into the future with stylish, energy-efficient buildings that can be built in less time and as much as 50% cheaper.
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Increased tourism is pouring money into the area, but rapid commercialisation is also eroding traditional livelihoods as earth buildings increasingly find a more rewarding future as museums.
It's encouraging that there has been a focus on rebuilding with better techniques to resist future quakes and not just throwing up the same buildings again.
Suggested future applications involve furniture, pipes, bikes and buildings.
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He wrote that less than half of the urgently required maintenance will be completed over the next five years, leaving council buildings in a declining condition and jeopardising future service delivery for the public.
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Presumably the present value of cost recovery deductions net of future recapture is embedded in the fair market value of buildings.
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Researchers are also hopeful that buildings could also get the plastic treatment in the future.
Stormont is stepping in to sort out the future of one of Northern Ireland's best-known listed buildings.
Such a process could in future be used to build furniture, bikes, cars and even buildings, he thinks.
John has unequal passions for the possibilities of green job growth in the future, and how, through projects like weatherization and retrofitting of buildings, we could generate millions of jobs and create huge prospects for growth over the long term.
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Damage to buildings and the presence of asbestos mean its long-term future is still unclear.
If the Barcelona-based architect's vision of the future comes true, you'll be seeing these marbles incorporated into buildings and serving as standalone units.
But FEMA is releasing seven advisories for rebuilding and minimizing future flood damage for new construction, plus a fact sheet about cleaning and drying buildings.
The vast amount of rubble that once filled the city's streets has been cleared away and many unstable buildings have been leveled, leaving behind the concrete foundations on which to rebuild again in the future.
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