Enernoc's computers sent commands to control units at 250 commercial and industrial buildings in the region.

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Popular for a while in commercial buildings and industrial-looking condos, the shades have been showing up in mainstream residential designs, says Brooke Traeger, associate chair of interior design at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.

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It includes almost 50 buildings -- houses, churches, commercial and industrial structures, cultural and civic centers, universities and museums, many of them competition-winning projects -- as well as his activity as a town planner and designer for industry, presented in drawings, models, photographs and "walk-through" videos.

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For more than a year, worries have drifted through the financial world and the media that commercial real estate--which includes office, industrial, retail, hotels, and multi-family buildings rented out for profit--would be the next "shoe" to drop.

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Just one industrial-class example: Panoptix, a Johnson Controls subsidiary, has an app store for energy management of commercial buildings.

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