The aptly named Quake Column is a knurled pillar of 3-D printed concrete that combines an ancient Incan masonry technique with state-of-the-art manufacturing tools to create a structure that can withstand seismic shocks without mortar or rebar. Emerging Objects

The aptly named Quake Column is a knurled pillar of 3-D printed concrete that combines an ancient Incan masonry technique with state-of-the-art manufacturing tools to create a structure that can withstand seismic shocks without mortar or rebar.

Each block features molded handles and a code that tells the mason how the structure is to be assembled. Emerging Objects

Each block features molded handles and a code that tells the mason how the structure is to be assembled.

Other experiments include turning waste product like hardwood sawdust into a building material. Emerging Objects

Other experiments include turning waste product like hardwood sawdust into a building material.

The result is an object with a 21st century design, but a 17th century patina. Emerging Objects

The result is an object with a 21st century design, but a 17th century patina.

Emerging Objects experimented with a 3-D printer that produces objects made of sand and created this noise canceling wall. Emerging Objects

Emerging Objects experimented with a 3-D printer that produces objects made of sand and created this noise canceling wall.

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JAMES CITY Along with Tuesday's presentation on a new concept for a fourth middle school in Williamsburg-James City schools, the division's architects delivered a report on just how long the city and county can cope with current growth trends without expanding or building more schools.

Based on that report, dubbed the "10-year Master Plan Study," Chesapeake-based architectural firm RRMM recommended the division build a new 500-seat elementary school by 2019-2020 and build additions onto the high schools by the 2020-21 school year. The report, of course, recommends the construction of a new middle school to open during the 2018-19 school year.

RRMM relied on FutureThink enrollment projections and some of the school division's own research and reporting. RRMM's report said the nine elementary schools will reach their collective capacity by 2019-2020, and by 2023-2024, James River, Rawls Byrd and Matthew Whaley will be short 52 seats for students while the other six schools combined would have a 151-seat surplus. The architects recommended temporary classroom trailers, building additions or rezoning to cope with the shortfall, but said a new school would allow each school to operate at 95 percent capacity while limiting the rezoning needed to find enough space for all the students.

Similarly, RRMM said the high schools will reach their collective capacity during the 2021-2022 school year, and will be short nearly 300 seats by 2023-24. Classroom trailers and rezoning were possible options given, but RRMM's ultimate recommendation was building additions at the high schools to support 550 to 600 more students.

When it came to the middle schools one of which is already over capacity, based on enrollment data and the size of the facilities RRMM architects said the three current buildings would collectively be 553 seats short by the 2023-2024 school year.

"You could make up that deficit with classroom trailers or additions," architect Duane Harver said. "With each school having a deficit, rezoning would not be effective. You'd be moving around the negative numbers. ... We're proposing that a 600-seat middle school be constructed by the year 2018-2019 and that would extend your capacity to the ten-year mark and beyond."

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GREAT FALLS -- The new Easter Seals-Goodwill store is set to open in Great Falls on Thursday.

The store's new location is at 1201 7th Street South, and has about 25,000 square feet.

The retail space accounts for about 15,000 square feet, much larger than the old store's 9,600 square feet.

The official grand opening of the new Goodwill store takes place on Thursday, October 9th, at 8 a.m.

(October 5, 2014) After months of construction, the Easter Seals-Goodwill's Great Falls Goodwill store is just a week away from its grand opening.

Step inside the Great Falls Goodwill store on Tuesday and you'll find a lot of empty space.

After years in their location near 9th Street, the store held it's last business day on Tuesday. After weeks of discounts, the pickings are slim.

But move over to the store's new location at 1201 7th Street South and the shelves are full.

Store manager Laurie Gorence says, "We've been producing in this location to fill it since September 15th. So by the time we get into, we have about three weeks worth of production and product on the floor. This is all new fresh product from donations that have recently come in."

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CITY council cabinet members have signed off on proposals to close a specialist youth advice centre in York, but offered some hope of another future for the service.

The cabinet met last night to discuss changes in childrens services including the Castlegate centre as well as the recommendations of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents on river safety and the plan to extend Fulford School.

Fifteen members of the public spoke at the beginning of the meeting, many objecting to the plans to close the Castlegate centre, and to urge councillors to postpone the plans until Castlegate staff had had more time to come up with alternative proposals.

Carol Pugh warned the cabinet that closing the Castlegate centre would affect not just those young people who use the service now, but those who might need its help in five years or more.

She added: There are many good services out there, but the services offered at Castlegate are not offered anywhere else. When services are offered holistically, they just work better.

Cllr Janet Looker, the cabinet member for childrens services, said the proposals were being considered with a heavy heart.

She said the services as Castlegate had been successful because of the people and the staff providing them.

Cllr Looker also addressed concerns that a move to West Offices for the youth services Castlegate provides would put young people off.

She said if the offices were uncomfortable for vulnerable young people, they would be uncomfortable for vulnerable families and adults as well, and the council should improve that for the sake of everyone in the city.

Speakers also told the cabinet members that staff wanted to talk to them about alternative ways of delivering the service like staff co-operatives, or social enterprises and there was some hope offered when cabinet agreed to add a caveat to their decision, saying that must take place.

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Here is a list of road projects around the Heartland scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 9.

Butler County, MO

Route 72 in Bollinger County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform shoulders repairs. This section of roadway is located from Old Route 72 to Route B.

Existing lanes of Route 67 from CR 323 to Route 160/158 will be signed as Route C. The north end of Route C (existing Route 67) will remain closed for about two months as work is completed at the intersection of Route 67, Route C, and CR 323.

Cape Girardeau County, MO

Northbound Interstate 55 will be reduced to one lane as contractor crews perform pavement repairs. This section of road is located at the 96 mile marker underneath the Route K overpass. Weather permitting, crews will be working from Friday, Oct. 17 through Sunday, Oct. 19 from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily.

Starting at 8 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 29, contracted concrete slab repair and replacement will begin on Silver Springs Road between Independence Street and Bloomfield Road in Cape Girardeau. The work will cause lane closures. The expected project completion time is about four weeks.

MoDOT plans to replace the bridge on Route 61 over Hughes Creek - two miles from Route CC. Construction is set to begin in 2015.

Property owners adjacent to the bridge will have access to their properties. A marked detour is proposed here:

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An artist's rendering shows the exterior of Swedish Edmonds after its expansion.

Photo illustration courtesy NBBJ/Swedish Edmonds

An artist's rendering shows the design concept of a lobby inside Swedish Edmonds hospital's ongoing expansion.

By Mina Williams For HBJ

Published: Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 12:01 a.m.

EDMONDS Swedish Edmonds is embarking on an aggressive expansion course to meet the needs of south Snohomish County.

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The material was touted for its versatility and as a lighter, more durable alternative to marble. And compared with today's glass tile - thinner, clear and often back-painted - Vitrolite has a richer, more polished appearance.

"The depth of tone is different than if you just have a piece of glass over paint," said Tim Dunn, a Vitrolite specialist. "There's a vibrancy and a lusciousness that you don't get with back-painted glass. It stays nice and fresh and glossy."

So, why don't more of us have this material in our homes? Well, for starters, it hasn't been produced since 1947 in the United States.

Dunn is one of a handful in the country who salvages, restores and installs the obsolete material, which he describes as the siding of its time.

And thanks to this elite cluster of experts, folks who already have the glass in their homes can keep it.

Like Valerie Schroer, who, about five years ago, had to remove part of the Vitrolite in her bathroom due to a plumbing problem.

"We tried to save the tile but couldn't," Schroer said. "We did a search on the internet to find replacements, and we found Tim Dunn."

Dunn restored the tile in the cream- and-black bathroom of the Schroer house, which was built in the late '30s.

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