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Precast concrete facade for South Florida temple

Gate Precast Company announced it has been awarded the architectural precast concrete contract for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The 28,000-square-foot temple will be the second in the state of Florida. Gate Precast joins the construction team led by Suffolk Construction. Architectural Nexus of Salt Lake City, Utah, designed the new temple consisting of two levels. In early 2011, the architect selected Gate Precast Company as the Precast Design Assist Consultant to assist in the development of building precast cladding.

The European" Energy Forum" on the construction of the outer skin development direction

Italy Bressanone December 6 report (reporter Wang Yun ) of the sixth European" energy " forum 6 in Italy North City Bressanone opening. The forum focused photovoltaic technology in the construction of outer epidermis using, explore through the architecture surface of introducing high technology to achieve lower energy consumption and power generation may.

City sustainable development needs the green building

Nowadays, people in the enjoyment of the material prosperity of space at the same time, also has planted the seeds of the crisis, green development is the inevitable choice of future society. With the green concept increasingly win support among the people, sustainable city is becoming a global city development direction in the future, how to realize green development has become a new issue in the city development plan.

Young people do not do the city aging masonry construction workers

Age of the majority of workers on site are 50 years old, very rare to see young faces. "I am a 59 year." Migrant workers are carrying bricks Master Sun told reporters that his mouth from the small town of Suyu District, "We here are a few people aged over 50 years, only one lesbian age of mildly . "

Head of the construction site with workers Zhu Shifu, told this reporter, at present the majority of urban workers on the site are from rural areas, some workers have more than 60 years of age, the Builders' Few young people, even if there is also engaged in technology. "

70% construction workers are not to sign labor contracts

April to November 2011, to be done on earth Beijing Cultural Development Center, college student volunteers helmets mobile service teams, Beijing, Chongqing and Shanghai and seven college teachers and students as the main force of investigators visited Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, 39 construction sites in Shanghai, 1194 questionnaires were distributed, 1064 valid questionnaires were collected, in the hundreds of statistics based on the formation of a research report.

Old building installation of heat metering and strive not to let people out of their own pockets

Another 10 days, Ji'nan central heating will begin. 3, Ji'nan Municipal Public Utility Bureau Chief Jia Yuliang led the heating enterprise relevant responsible person answering the 12345 public service hotline, is the heat problem of a few heat, with the general public to interact, to everyone's questions one by one to answer.
The version of the manuscript / reporter Li Ming Ding Jie
Ji'nan next year to build two heat source factory East in Tang Ye District, west near the maestra

Water saving technology in the construction water supply and drainage applications

According to the different function of the building can adopt different water-saving measures and technology: in the residential and office buildings should be improved toilet flushing, reducing the amount of rinse water; in hotels, restaurants, should be considered for bath wastewater treatment and reuse.
A 1 reduction in the toilet flushing water

A hectare of forest edge into the Milan Residence

Recently, media exposure of the construction of Italy in the" aerial forest", there is news that build before the end of next year, the news that the global green low carbon source one's blood boils with indignation. This is known as " the forest" building, are two green Residence, containing a hectare of forest.

Energy saving building to build trillion market

By the NDRC, Ministry of housing and urban-rural development system ' green energy saving building plan of action ' has been half a year to seek an opinion, is expected to introduce the near future. The main objectives are: during the 12th five-year plan urban and rural new green building is 1100000000 square meters, 570000000 square meters of construction energy saving; since 2017, construction of new towns in all of the implementation of green building standards.

Japan Could Encase Nuclear Plant in Concrete

Tokyo Electric Power's first reference to the option -- employed in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster -- suggested efforts to prevent materials at the facility's six reactors from overheating might prove unsuccessful, according to Reuters (Saoshiro/Negishi, Reuters I, March 18).

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