If we just took our existing building stock in homes and insulated them, had new windows -- schools, hospitals, a lot of big institutions -- we could squeeze huge efficiencies out of that.

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Embedding the structural support in the core made it possible to cantilever the roof and thus wrap a glass facade around the building, using vast expanses of insulated, triple-pane glass and mahogany mullions.

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And unlike its competitor Juniper Networks, which presented a somewhat optimistic picture in its earnings earlier this month, the majority of Cisco's customers are large firms building their own networks, not relatively insulated telecommunications companies.

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