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Starbucks Industry-Leading Design Initiatives Help Reduce Environmental Footprint of Global Store Operations

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Since we only have half of the number of Starbucks we’ll need by 2030, this is welcome news.  If only more franchises would hop on board now, we’d all have more business.
>http://news.starbucks.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=295 [...]

Starbucks Industry-Leading Design Initiatives Help Reduce Environmental Footprint of Global Store Operations

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Since we only have half of the number of Starbucks we’ll need by 2030, this is welcome news.  If only more franchises would hop on board now, we’d all have more business.
>http://news.starbucks.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=295 [...]

The Revit Clinic: Nested Families & Visibility / Graphic Overrides

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>http://revitclinic.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/11/nested-families-visibility-graphic-overrides.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&’/utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Ftherevitclinic+%28The+Revit+Clinic%29‘

When creating families containing nested families with varying family categories [for example the main family is a generic model category with a nested furniture category family] ensure that the nested family is set to shared under Category [...]

IES Creates Unique Climate Energy Index System for Sustainable Design [LEED]

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Are you starting to see a trend here?  Green building software, green building jobs, green….the color of money? > http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS143562+03-Nov-2009+BW20091103
Provides Designers with Simple Metric to Assess Current and Future Climate Data and Its Relation to Building [...]

The USGBC’s 2009 Green Jobs Report | GreenerBuildings.com

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http://www.greenerbuildings.com/research/report/2009/11/11/usgbcs-2009-green-jobs-report
By GreenerBuildings Staff
Published November 11, 2009

Website: U.S. Green Building Council

This study, released at Greenbuild 2009, was conducted by the U.S. Green Building Council and Booz Allen Hamilton, and predicts that the [...]

Green Construction Will Add $554 Billion to U.S. GDP by 2013, Create 8 Million New Jobs « The Dirt

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These are some pretty impressive numbers. My only question is who is going to be doing the work? Looks like a lot of specialization and training [...]

Autodesk Navisworks – Supported File Formats and Applications

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Here’s a little something I was researching for my upcoming class at Autodesk University on BIM for Bidders.

Since, for some crazy reason, the entire AEC world is not using Revit, there are a few other products and file formats [...]

Nov 12, 1946: The Abacus Proves Its Might | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

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On the other hand, we have this handy solar powered device from yesteryear that proves that no technology can be any technology. I wonder if Chisel CAD is faster than any [...]

From Droid to Roid

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Ah, the joys of technology.   A friend of mine purchased the new Motorola Droid phone last week. We were at the Verizon store for what seemed like an eternity, but was only 57 minutes.  There were no lines, no pushing and shoving. It [...]

LEED and Energy Models Continued: The Illinois Regional Study

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, something’s gotta give on the engineering side of design. I know Revit MEP isn’t perfect, but it is in it’s 5th release, getting better all the time and [...]