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Brisbane's tallest office building: inspired by nature / 30,000 square metres of ipasol solar control glass    With organic design behind a highly transparent structural glazing façade, the skyscraper "One One One Eagle Street" in the…
The new face of enterprise: Polysolar install revolutionary solar PV rainscreen facade on new social and environmental enterprise centre.
EPFL’s new convention center is being equipped with an impressive glass façade composed of dye solar cells.
Oxford Photovoltaics (Oxford PV) was named the winner of the Solar Award for Excellence: BIPV Innovation at the 2013 Solar UK Industry Awards.
Eclipsall announced today its first building-integrated PV (BIPV) installation in Mississauga Ontario consisting of a custom designed BIPV canopy and BIPV tower.
At XL Services, in the user sophisticated Bestech Business Park at Gurgaon, office interior design stands a class apart.   And it is because the entire definition of office interiors stands redefined.
The Swiss Reinsurance Company Limited – also known as Swiss Re, 30 St Mary Axe, and Gherkin – is a classic example of contemporary architecture.   Its impressive glass facade is visible from a long distance, as much as 32 kms away.
The fact that for functional municipal buildings, aesthetics and design need not be the decisive criteria, is proven by the extension to the town hall in Baden's Waghäusel: clear in its form and, thanks to ultra-modern triple insulating glasses…
The Intersolar India Conference is taking place for the fifth time in the Leela Kempinski Hotel in Mumbai from November 11–14, 2013. 700 national and international attendees as well as roughly 100 speakers from around the world are expected to…
Local property developer the Tulip Group has recently signed an agreement with Hydro for Technal products for its world class high rise condominium and hotel Waterfront Suites and Residences.
Three months after a blaze in a glass facade building claimed four lives at Andheri, the fire department and BMC have come out with a fresh set of guidelines for such buildings.
After last year's fire incident in a Bandra-Kurla Complex building exposed the helplessness of firefighters, civic body draws up fresh guidelines to safeguard human life and property.
After four years, ift Rosenheim had to terminate the cooperation with the OTI test laboratory in Istanbul.
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Ecological, close to nature and cost-saving: on Hamburg's Elbinsel Wilhelmsburg, the International Building Exhibition 2013 is showing how we will live in the future.
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Bill Blazek joins the market team at Technoform Bautec North America, Inc. He will provide manufacturers of aluminum windows, doors and façades with high-precision polyamide insulation profiles that deliver energy efficiency, structural performance…
From stadiums in Brazil to a bank headquarters in Britain, architects led by Norman Foster are integrating solar cells into the skin of buildings, helping the market for the technology triple within two years.
DuPont China Holding Co., Ltd. (DuPont) and GD Solar Co., Ltd. (GD Solar) today signed a strategic cooperation agreement focused on collaboration to improve the power output, quality and reliability of solar energy systems to meet the world’s…
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