Everhouse: A new plan for post-Katrina homes
John Sawyer’s vision for the next phase of Katrina recovery revolves around a simple home. Three years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita battered the Gulf Coast, housing remains a major problem in the region. There’s a shortage of skilled labor to build new homes, insurance rates have skyrocketed, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 15:36:54
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Build your dream home
I am planning to buy a new house and only then I realized how tough a job it is as it involves a lot of careful planning ... from. I have always craved for having Contemporary house plans. I bumped into houseplansandmore.com website where I found almost all types of house plans like Bungalow House plans, English Cottage plans [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 04:50:45
Brentwood’s Town Center one step closer
Planning Commission Gives Nod to Two New Town Center Buildings By MELISSA WEBB Correspondent mwebb@charterinternet ... in the city. The Commission approved site plans and the revised final plat presented by Brookside Properties for two new buildings. Three lots (including the former home of the Carriage House Cleaners [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 11:43:00
Home Improvement Magazines and Stores are Good Design
by Cadell Derbing Whether you know a lot about homebuilding or just have some ideas of how you want your new home to look and function, ... to the layout and building plan in the design phase will ensure that you realize your dream of living ... . Some ideas in very high-end homes can be adapted to other price level building with little [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 19:53:00
On Dream Homes
Looking for inspiration for your dream home? Are you ready to get started building? ... you a totally modernist style house on a realistic budget. Other plans that you can choose from are narrows, prairie styles, southern houses, colonial homes, new england plans, beach house and many [more...]
Date: 2008-08-06 17:06:00
Shrinking Floorplans Meet Energy Costs and Buyers Budgets
Home-sold Builders are seeing less opportunity in building large homes and are retooling their floorplans to take this into account ... to afford the oversized home makes less sense. Add into the equation potential inflation and the high ... $300,000. Now, the builder is shrinking floor plans again. It recently launched a new line of homes [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 12:00:23
Spoil Your Own Country BROWNSKI Not Ours’
Immigrants Have Taken 40% of all Homes Built in Last Decade December 4, ... European immigration since 2005. The Brown Government plans to build three million new houses in the UK ... by the Home Office. Nearly 600,000 properties have been needed to house immigrants since 1997 — [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 17:31:20
Six Key Points of a Domestic Building Energy Management Plan
Nearly one third of GHG emissions come from heating, cooling and lighting our homes and places or work – much more than it could be ... Management Plan: *A National Energy Building Code for new construction and major retrofits [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 10:39:19
CC & A.J. press conference roundup
CC & A.J. press conference roundup December 19, 2008 A few thoughts from Thursday's initial-crazy press conference .. ... that dream house he was building in Southern California? It's history. He and his family plan to buy a home in northern New Jersey and make it their residence year-round - for at least the next seven years [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 05:49:55
6190 Concerto Trail, Saline, MI 48176
NEW construction in Saline, located in one of the most convenient new subdivisions in Saline…. ... and attention to detail. This ranch home is 2045 square feet, with hardwood floors in foyer, kitchen and nook. Other lots and floor plans are available to build with Essex-Homes web site. More lots [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 23:44:56
On A Clean Energy Economy
I recently returned from Washington, D.C ... s, is that they get it! They understand that any recovery plan must be developed toward a clean energy economy. This will create ... a home and commercial building retrofit program CLEANER TRANSPORTATION Fully fund New Starts transit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 01:53:11
Go Home Already: Buildings and Grounds
2008_0916_gha.jpg Seems like we all ought to be asking tougher questions about the plans of new Smithsonian head G. Wayne Clough. ... Modern Art Notes Redskin Chris Cooley has apologized for posting a photo of his penis on his blog ... up the block a woman was attacked, and the guy who rushed out of the house to help the woman, also beat [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 23:13:33
Texas Instruments Reveals Lamp-Free Projector, Pico Projector Prototypes
The InfoComm audio/video trade show is in full swing, ... (and seeing a 30% lower power usage). Initially, the technology will be included in home theater ... companies to adopt this new technology. On the topic of Optoma, the company has announced plans to build [more...]
Date: 2008-06-18 13:00:19
"Destruction of a modernist legacy"
Photo of Eeno Saarinen's US Embassy Building in London from CultureMonsterPlans to construct a new home in a safer location in South London for the ... the same about the plans recently announced to demolish the existing Christchurch Airport Terminal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 20:15:00
For the Love of Lazarus
Foss Village is where people go to die. But the non-profit nursing home, in operation since the 1920s, is ready to start a new life. Foss has plans to demolish its aging one- and two-story buildings and sprawling parking lot in Bitter Lake, and replace them with a modern nine-building campus and underground parking that fills [more...]
Date: 2008-06-09 23:40:05
Prince Charles And Camilla Moves Into Their New Eco-Farmhouse
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles quietly took the wraps off of their new country residence yesterday — called Llwynywormwood Estates — and ... farmhouse surrounded by 192 acres of organic farm and countryside would not say who the home belongs ... by insulating the building with hemp and sheep’s wool. The plans also include filling a lake from [more...]
Date: 2008-06-24 13:04:53
Big new buildings for health-related studies at UNC Asheville and WCU ready to kick into high gear
Looking around this morning, I've found a couple of notices about major university construction coming up ... (130,000 square feet) to be built at UNC Asheville. The building will be the home of the N.C. ... will kick off after a January hearing where project bids will be unsealed. Complete plans [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 17:50:38
Santa Maria CA Gated Townhome Communities, Arborwalk & Lavigna
Lighthouse Tower at Lavigna Pool Lavigna is a new gated community of detached townhomes in the southwest part ... greatly. There are also plans to build out Carmen Lane which will further unite the Westgate Ranch area ... . I just visited the model homes yesterday and they all look appealing. The floor plans range [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 20:27:34
"World's Toughest Phone," Sonim XP3, Coming to US
sonimsmall1.jpg Their European phones have been dropped from a 13-story building and shot with guns, four times, ... finally plans to bring their phones home to the US with the upcoming XP3, which will be available next ... . You break it, you get a new one. There will be a European version of the XP3 with fewer features [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 15:02:43
Hill Happenings
It's time for a quick check-in on the Hill Section.First, a sale, at long last. The odd "flag lot" house at 612 11th is in escrow after 11 months ... , with development plans apparently thwarted, the new owner offered to flip the lot to any willing buyer ... , or split the lot and build two. (See "Just Split 'Em.") Too bad the charming ranch home [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 06:47:00
Obama lays out job projections expected from stimulus
In today's radio address, the president-elect released a new report, which details how many and what kinds of jobs will be created by an "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." Here's the video and excerpts are below: Yesterday ... American homes. These made-in-America jobs building solar panels and wind turbines, developing fuel [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 15:34:01
GM to Spend $30M on Volt Battery Assembly Plant
General Motors plans to invest $30 million into building a plant for assembling Chevy Volt battery packs, ... in its home state — despite up to $335 million in tax incentives for battery development ... for G.M.,” he told the New York Times, “hopefully we’ll start to see a lot more activity [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 23:00:30
Divide and conquer: new Pru towers pass neighbors’ vote
PruPAC is a citizens’ advisory panel made up of neighbors and business people from the area around the Prudential building and plaza, ... , get a little less.) To outsiders, it seemed to be a pipe-dream. There was no way neighbors would allow something so big to be built so close to their homes (especially since a “master plan” for the area [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 21:01:50
A portal into space, and it's in my backyard
Posted 12/17/2008 01:00:00 PM New Mexico got final approval this week to build a commercial spaceport 40 miles from my house ... near my home in Las Cruces are a go. There’s one final hurdle before the spaceport will be built ... more than $200 million developing SpaceShipTwo, which it plans to use to ferry paying customers into space [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 20:00:00
New Crystal Palace Pictures Released
Original Crystal Palace Crystal Palace, home to cheeky dinosaurs, a floundering football team, and a pair of priapic transmitter towers, could soon boast a rebuilt version of the structure that lent its name to the area. Plans are afoot to resurrect the Victorian cast-iron & glass building (pictured), originally erected for the 1851 [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 13:32:20
Even Better Than Greenspoint: New AstroWorld Festival Office Park!
One of Swamplot’s best tipsters forwards a link to a website featuring lovely renderings of a family of glassy office buildings and blocky parking ... of nonsense with their clever plan, clearly modeled after several better-known suburban office parks ... . Get it? Just like it says on the Crosswell Torian home page: “Piece of dirt? [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 00:43:14
Go Home Already: Abandon All Hope
Two high-rise apartment buildings have been evacuated due to a reported two-alarm fire in the 2300 block of Good Hope Road SE.The Washington Post plans to deliver 2.7 million issues of its special Inauguration Day edition ... for more shirts like these.Prince of Petworth spots a new women's clothing store, ZiZi Boutique, in [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:37:50
Sell your green home
We now understand enough about sustainable homes to know that they’re not just important for the conservation of the planet, ... . A year ago, eco-towns were at the forefront of the government’s plans to build more new homes and reduce ... properties. New research from the Energy Saving Trust reveals that energy efficient homes could [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 16:20:23
Build your favorite home
New Yorkers are always being introduced to the new concept of house made since New York City become one consideration for people to build what type ... , the site offers construction of New York log homes. And customer can choose up to 100 floor plans which ... of house would be best home in this place. Usually there is a certain mode booming in that place [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 03:29:22
Sunday Farm Photo: Heat Cheat
Firewood Blocks: A Busy Farmgirl's New Best Friend Both The Shack and the new building ( ... old home. The new building, on the other hand, has the opposite problem—we bought a massive wood ... like a perfect plan to me—stay warm and yet still have plenty of fresh air. Kind of like when I used [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 20:23:38
Creating a Life Plan
I have met very few people who have a plan for their lives. Most are passive spectators, watching their lives unfold a day at a time. They may plan their careers, the building of a new home, or even a vacation. But it never occurs to them to plan their life. As a result, many end up discouraged and disillusioned, wondering where they went wrong [more...]
Date: 2008-06-30 02:23:36
90% of Israeli Homes Solar Hot Water Equipped
392232273_aebdccd321 Last week I reported on a story that saw a new bill passed in Hawaii making it mandatory for every new home to have their ... the following year anyone who intended to build a new home would have to include solar panels in their plans. Already Spain is the fourth largest manufacturer of solar power technology, exporting 80 [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 17:56:27
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