The newly-adopted green leasing provisions will reduce energy consumption and costs in these buildings and likely accelerate the adoption of green-leasing practices in mainstream real-estate markets.
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"So now you want to put in these huge buildings, block our view, take away the play areas that we have, " she said.
But in the pre-Katrina days, these buildings were in disrepair.
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In between these big buildings, of course, I won't see none usually.
Net zero energy buildings, which produce as much or more energy as they consume over a given period of time, are all the rage in green buildings these days.
An enormous number of Britons, far more than in the U.S., lived in these government-owned buildings.
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Thousands went to work in the old buildings that lined these streets, forging the metal that built our trains and our ships and our cars and our skyscrapers.
The objective is to get the government to commit to installing defibrillators in all public buildings - because these can save people who collapse as a result of the condition.
For example, C3 Energy, a "big data" analytics specialist, provides software and monitoring systems that can show large and small businesses how much energy they are using and on what processes, then compare these with buildings and businesses in the same area.
In China, the buildings for all of these subparks are co-branded and emerging zones can apply if they grow to meet certain criteria.
You have these buildings, one after another, standing in formation like the warriors, empty.
These miniature cell sites are placed in homes and office buildings to improve network inbuilding coverage and at the same time off-load some of the voice and broadband traffic from the primary commercial networks.
These used to be out of cheap necessity, in buildings where landlords were too stingy to shell out for even ceilings.
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While Title 24 has improved building efficiency by more than 50%, these technologies have not been applied to existing buildings in a comprehensive manner.
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In all these neighborhoods, graffiti on the fences, walls and buildings adjacent to the Caltrain tracks were updated frequently, sometimes with highly ornate, mural-sized efforts.
"We are knocking down a lot of the buildings on which these buildings were originally painted - a lot were in schools and the Rebuilding Schools Programme has demolished some, " Ms Croft says.
"I want to give people the feeling that if there were a camera in the 17th century, if someone had photographed one of these buildings, this is what it would have looked like, " he says.
Betaville gives people a chance to see these proposals in their given context and to better understand how new buildings can fit into their communities.
Combined, these commitments bring the total square footage of buildings enrolled in this public-private partnership to 2 billion, the equivalent of more than 34, 000 football fields.
"When I was taking these pictures, I couldn't find drastic change in the surroundings or buildings, " she said.
And of course these things could not have become radioactive without the people who work in those buildings also becoming so.
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The buildings no longer made sense as these structures were built with pedestrians in mind, not cars.
But the unwieldy dimensions of these new buildings will turn their migration into a slow-motion race in which nearly three-dozen units will lumber to the city from a factory in Berwick, Pa.
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And now these state-owned buildings are being sold and rented to those who want in on the fun.
These students are housed in over 10, 000 schools in which over 70 percent of school buildings are over 25 years old.
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While the city continues to struggle with high unemployment, abandoned buildings, suffering schools and lack of infrastructure, there is a new energy in these downtown neighborhoods that suggests a gradual shift.
Many of these areas are changing or disappearing as high-rise housing and upscale buildings move in and sweep away the old neighborhoods, sparking controversy and discussions about what Rio is and should be.
We're creating jobs immediately by retrofitting these buildings, or weatherizing 2 million American's homes, as was called for in the package.
These data are overlaid with estimates of exposure: for example, the number of buildings in an area that are vulnerable and what it would cost to rebuild them.
"The council felt that these plans would produce local jobs and would most definitely be an improvement to the derelict buildings in the area, " said Steve Osborne, chairman of the district council's planning committee.
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