Glasgow-based construction firm CCG has completed a window replacement contract to 86 properties in the south of the city on behalf of Govanhill Housing Association.

Works were undertaken to properties along Langside Road and involved the installation of the CCG-manufactured Dual Turn Timber Window as well as the repair and upgrade of stonework on the building faade.

Manufactured across a semi-automated production line in the bespoke, zero-waste CCG Manufacturing facility located at the companys Cambuslang headquarters, the windows were delivered to site fully finished to ensure a swift and easy installation that was delivered by the companys expert building renewals division, CCG Specialist Building Services.

John Paton, CCG manufacturing manager, said: Our windows are precision engineered to ensure the highest quality for our clients. Timber windows are highly sustainable and have excellent environmental properties, ensuring that the tenants of Govanhill Housing Association will achieve savings on their energy bills.

Paul Muldoon, CCG specialist building services manager, said: CCG SBS were delighted to carry out this contract on behalf of Govanhill HA. Having windows delivered to site entirely finished brings many on-site advantages including ease of installation. With the efficiency brought by our expert team, the entire contract was fully completed within a period of just 18 weeks. We look forward to working with the association in the future.

John McLardie, chairperson of Govanhill Housing Association, said: This latest phase of replacing older window units with new high-performance quality timber windows is a key feature of the Associations ongoing Major Repairs and Planned Maintenance programme which aims to improve energy efficiency and reduce fuel bills for our tenants. The contract was skillfully delivered by the CCG team within programme and budget and the Association looks forward to working with CCG on future phases.

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Christian Pulisic impressed for Borussia Dortmund as they fought back against Wolfsburg. Could he be the man to replace Ousmane Dembele if he leaves the club in the transfer window?

Borussia Dortmund fans are used to young, exciting players leaving the club just before theyve hit their peak. Its an unfortunate side effect for any club that enjoys the expertise of scouting and identifying young talent only to then coach them in to the stars of tomorrow.

Despite the relevant experience in coming to terms with such a blow, the current situation with want-away winger Ousmane Dembele is particularly tough to swallow. Since Barcelona announced their interest the young Frenchman has done his utmost to force through a move and has since been banned from first-team training.

When asked to explain the 20-year-olds action teammate Gonzalo Castro didnt mince his word. his behaviour is bad for the team. We must say clearly that this cannot happen, announced the midfielder. And his behaviour is bad for the team.

Yet if Dortmund fans were feeling down about one of their best players throwing his toys out of the pram they needed to wait just 22 minute before they were reminded that should Dembele go they already have a perfect replacement to hand: Christian Pulisic.

The American international opened the scoring against Wolfsburg with a wonderfully placed finish in the first half, and once again unlocked the opposing defence late on in the second half with a pinpoint cross to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to make it three. Amidst an impressive Dortmund performance the young kid from Pennsylvania was undoubtedly the star player.

Indeed any premise of Pulisic kicking off the new season in style was perhaps first suggested in the Super Cup clash with Bayern Munich earlier in the month, when he opened the scoring with a wonderful solo run before pestering the Bavarian defence for the rest of the night. Even the best team in Germany struggled against the young winger.

At just 18 years of age Pulisic is two years younger than Dembele but is by no means two years behind him in his development. Although the French star may be the more established name and now proven in two top European leagues, few Dortmund fans would suggest theres too much between them.

Despite last season being the first full, senior campaign of his career, Pulisic still managed to bag five goals and 13 assists in a Dortmund team that mostly used him as an impact sub late on in Bundesliga and Champions League games. Yet under new coach Peter Bosz it would seem as though hes likely to play a much more significant role this time around.

Indeed, it will the new coach that ultimately decides how Dortmund will look in any post-Dembele scenario. Yet while Marco Reus continues to struggle with injury, Mario Gotze continues his long return from a metabolic condition and new signing Maximilian Philipp settles in at his new club it seems as though the American may be the only free-scoring and free-assisting attacking midfielder Bosz can rely upon.

Pulisic is undoubtedly going to enjoy another great campaign with Dortmund this season but should Dembele leave for Barcelona hes in the perfect position to fill in and take his place as the clubs new wonderkid.

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Sixteen of the 20 Premier League clubs are supposedly open to moving the summer transfer deadline to before the start of the season.

The chairman of each top-flight club will vote on the issue next month.

A host of managers have come out in favour of the move, claiming it is bad to start a campaign with an unsettled squad.

But Bilic has bucked the trend and claims the new deadline would mean Liverpool would be unable to sign a replacement if Coutinho were sold to Barcelona.

"I know the clubs are generally in favour of the transfer window closing before the start of next season - but I do foresee some problems," Bilic wrote in the London Evening Standard.

"The window will still be open in other countries and that could lead to players leaving and you not being able to sign replacements, which would make matters even worse.

"Take Liverpool, for example. If that rule changes, it would technically still not stop Philippe Coutinho going to Barcelona but it would prevent Liverpool signing a replacement.

"Yes, it would be better if the window was closed before the start of the season but only if it is right across the rest of the leagues in Europe. Otherwise, it could be even worse than it is now."

Europe's major football leagues all have their transfer windows in place until the end of August.

There is usually a one- or two-day differentiation between European leagues but the Premier League proposal would set the English deadline forward by three weeks.

The Football League has indicated it would follow the Premier League's decision to change the date of deadline day if it was voted on.

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ATKINSON New windows are planned at the ExCel School in Atkinson.

At its meeting Monday, the village board approved spending up to $20,000 to replace windows in the former Atkinson High School. Funding includes $10,000 from an annual increase in rent the ExCel Alternative School program will pay the village.

The number of windows to be replaced will depend on how far the dollar amount stretches, Mayor Ken Taber, added in the new windows should help on energy bills.

In other business, trustees reviewed a $10,000 professional service agreement with Shive Hattery, Moline, to oversee the new water storage tank installation project.

Board members also:

Delayed action on landscape reimbursement applications from four residents of West View Estates Subdivision.

Learned the Zoning Board of Appeals will meet at 6 p.m. before the Aug. 21 board meeting to discuss proposed zoning changes to the Vandersnick property bought by Wyffels Hybrids, Inc.

Adopted a resolution giving village clerk Shronda Delp access to the Illinois Funds Account, enabling her to transfer money from the account to the village account to pay bills.

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Until just recently, one of the great masterpieces of modernist architecture, the Salk Institute, in La Jolla, California, has been shrouded by scaffolding. Designed by Louis Kahn, the institute was completed in 1965. It has been conducting a painstaking, four-year conservation of its iconic teak window walls, and now, with the scaffolding down and the building in full view, AD returned to La Jolla to check it out.

The wooda Southeast Asian teakwas integral to Kahns design and to the clients vision. Though the Salk Institute is just thatan instituteboth its founder, Jonas Salk, and Kahn wanted the place to be a meditative retreat, where scientists could do laboratory benchwork but also have a place for study, contemplation, and even a bit of window-gazing. The wood spoke to that ambition, softening the concrete building and helping to create an environment, separate from the labs, where scientists could think.

Its oceanfront site makes for great views, but the damp, salty air took its toll on the wood. Water would wick into joints, allowing fungus to grow, and termites invaded moist areas of window frames. Because Kahn is known for his unrelenting perfectionism, one of the most offending outcomes of this deterioration was that the fungus did not grow evenly, creating different shades of gray and black.

The institute midrestoration, with scaffolding along the faade.

After making ad hoc fixes over the years, the Salk Institute determined it would approach its own architectural restoration the way it approaches scientific research: with empirical rigor. To do that, it turned to the Getty Conservation Institute and Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates. GCI carried out a comprehensive analysis of the window wells, including historical research and testing in a laboratory and on mock-ups, all with an eye toward returning the wood to the way it was originally designed by Kahn.

These are complex, elaborate assemblies, explains Sara Lardinois, a project specialist for GCI, referring to the 203 individual window walls, each of which offers a different combination of sliding windows, louvers, and shutters, linked by custom woodwork.

After its analysis, GCI provided a restoration plan that could be customized for each window, based on the extent of the damage, from minor (cleaning and repair), to moderate (partial replacement of materials), to major (removing windows and replacing pieces with like-for-like materials). Because of the meticulous approach, the Salk Institute was able to restore window walls using mostly minor and moderate interventions, salvaging two-thirds of Kahns original teak.

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Submitted by Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.

TACOMA, Wash. It was a huge undertaking. A massive window. A precision placement. And it all went swimmingly.

A wave of excitement washed over Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on Wednesday as a 157-foot-tall construction crane carefully lowered a massive acrylic panel demi-tunnel into place inside the new Pacific Seas Aquarium.

The nearly 35-foot-long, curved sheet of crystal clear acrylic will provide a window into the world of hammerhead sharks, green sea turtles, spotted eagle rays and other tropical animals that will live in the Baja Bay exhibit of the 35,000-square-foot aquarium, which is due to open next summer at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.

Its placement in an operation that featured huge machinery, precise measurements and a choreographed construction ballet marks a major milestone toward the completion of the new aquarium.

We broke ground on the Pacific Seas Aquarium just over a year ago, zoo Deputy Director John Houck said. We have eagerly watched as footings went in, walls were formed and concrete was poured. Weve noted progress with each passing day, but the installation of this piece was truly an occasion to stop, watch and celebrate. We cant wait until next summer when we begin expanding on the many conservation stories of our seas, from cold waters of Alaska down to the warm waters of the Baja Peninsula.

We remain grateful to the visionary voters of Tacoma, who approved a Metro Parks Tacoma bond issue three years ago to make this aquarium and dozens of other projects across the city a reality, Houck added.

The window installed on Wednesday weighs nearly 12 tons and will sit at the heart of the $51.6 million Pacific Seas Aquarium, a replacement for the now 54-year-old North Pacific Aquarium.

A crane hoists a 12-ton acrylic window up and over the rear wall of the new Pacific Seas Aquarium at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on Wednesday morning. It will be the window into Baja Bay, a new home to hammerhead sharks, green sea turtles, spotted eagle rays and other sea animals.

With its demi-tunnel design that will allow visitors to look up and see fish swimming over their heads, this one water window is likely to capture the hearts of visitors, too.

The hammerhead sharks, green sea turtles and eagle rays all newcomers to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium will swim in Baja Bay, the 250,000-gallon centerpiece of the new building.

The window, manufactured by Reynolds Polymer Technology, Inc., Grand Junction, Colo., arrived by truck at the entrance to Point Defiance Park in the early morning hours. A crew of flaggers guided the truck on a slow-motion, hour-plus ride through the park until it arrived at its destination inside the construction zone.

Another painstaking process slowly unleashed the acrylic panel from its steel shipping crate, then hooked it to a crane so it could be carefully hoisted aloft some 70 feet, up and over the aquarium building under construction. All the while, work crews made incremental adjustments so that the window could be lowered, inch by inch, into its final position.

But even with all that precision, the final act of hoisting the panel, swinging it into place and lowering it into position took only about two minutes. Construction crews positioned inside the building, however, took much longer to ensure the 6-inch-thick window was correctly set into place, where it will form one of the watertight sides of that huge exhibit.

In addition to the inhabitants of Baja Bay, the new Pacific Seas Aquarium will include new homes for the species that now reside in the North Pacific Aquarium including a giant Pacific octopus and several kinds of jellyfish.

The existing South Pacific Aquarium, which is home to 16 large sharks of five different species, as well as smaller sharks, stingrays and other fish, will remain open. The popular Eye-to-Eye Shark Dive program will continue there.

An architects rendering shows visitors watching scalloped hammerhead sharks, green sea turtles and spotted eagle rays in the Baja Bay exhibit of the new Pacific Seas Aquarium at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. It is slated to open in Summer 2018.

Visitors to the new aquarium will enter alongside an outdoor Tidal Surge exhibit, where moving waves will course through a habitat teeming with sea stars, anemones and urchins. Theyll stroll past schools of herring racing around a circular tank with a 4-foot tall, 7-foot wide viewing window. Theyll get a glimpse of the sea life that lurks beneath the ruins of Galloping Gertie, the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which twisted apart and collapsed into Puget Sound in 1940. Theyll see jellyfish, giant Japanese spider crabs and more as they continue their journey toward Baja Bay.

The new aquarium is being built on a spot between the zoos Wild Wonders Outdoor Theater and the Rocky Shores area, home to marine mammals like Pacific walruses, California sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters.

Its the largest capital project in the 112-year history of Metro Parks Tacoma. It is funded largely from the $198 million bond issue approved by voters in 2014.

Turner Construction is the general contractor and construction manager for the project.

An architects rendering shows visitors watching scalloped hammerhead sharks, green sea turtles, spotted eagle rays and other sea animals in the Baja Bay habitat of the Pacific Seas Aquarium, which is scheduled to open in the summer of 2018 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.

For more information, go to http://www.pdza.org/new-aquarium.

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by: Rare.usUpdated: Aug 11, 2017 - 11:41 PM

Dwayne The Rock Johnson has sported a tattoo of a bull on his right arm ever since his days as a professional wrestler.

On Friday, Johnsonrevealed that he had covered the tattoo up, but the replacement is a thing of beauty.

Johnson posted a picture on hisInstagram,revealing a new tattoo that took 22 hours to complete by renowned tattoo artist Nikko Hurtado.

Every detail is a reflection of my own personal history, Johnson wrote on Instagram. From the cracks and heavy damage in the bone representing lifes hard lessons Ive learned over the years. Just like scars and wrinkles Im so grateful to have em because theyre earned.

He also explained some of the symbolic choices in the tattoo, such as where the horns are pointing and how the tattoo will look from certain angles.

Cheers to living, learning, evolving and growing, he closed the post. And to the positive disrupters ready to dent the universe.

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By Stephanie Vanderbilt

Q: Its summer here in New England, and right now Im worried about the heat. However, it feels like Ill turn around and winter is suddenly here. What types of windows are effective in both hot and cold weather?

A: When you live in a climate like New England, you get the best of all seasons. If you are someone who loves variable temperatures and weather, youre in the right place. But this can make it difficult to determine how to properly insulate your home for all kinds of weather.

Windows to consider for a cooler and warmer home

According to the Department of Energy, heating and cooling accounts for 48 percent of energy use in the home. The good news is that there are types of windows specifically designed to keep your home both cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, and save you money on energy billsat the same time. These windows are engineered with various technologies in the form of gases, glazing and more.

Choose energy-efficient gases to insulate your home

Window insulation is one of the most important aspects of temperature regulation. Without it, your window is simply filling a hole in the wall. One of the best ways to insulate your windows is with argon or krypton gas. These gases are both denser than air and theyre designed tomaximize the thermal efficiency of the window while slowing heat transfer.

Not only do gases help insulate your home, but spacers are another important component.These separate the sheets of glass to improve insulation quality and they also insulate the pane edges. While spacers vary by design, the best spacers will also help with condensation and heat loss.

Opt for vinyl window frames for better thermal resistance

The Department of Energy indicates that vinyl frames are perhaps the most-efficient frame material on the market, outperforming wood and aluminum frames. High-quality vinyl frames are engineered with pure virgin polyvinyl chloride (PVC) with ultraviolet light stabilizers. The best vinyl window frames contain a larger portion of titanium dioxide than lower-quality replacement windows.

The best types of windows for cold and warm climates will include insulation within the vinyl frames as well. Vinyl frames are designed with hollow cavities that may be filled with an insulating foam during the manufacturing process. This is key to getting the best thermalresistance possible.

Include low-e glazing for UV protection

An application of low-e will also help keep your home more comfortable. While an important purpose of low-e glass is to prevent the suns rays from fading your flooring and furnishings, it can also help keep yourhome cooler since it helps block out the sun.

Preventing summer and winter condensation

Even though hot and cold air are a concern, youll also need to keep condensation in mind. Air holds varying amounts of vapor and moisture during the year, which results in condensation.

Summer condensation is typically found on the exterior of the window, while winter condensation is found on the inside of the window.Although condensation isnt always a problem, you dont want it making its way into your home.

This can lead to issues such as moisture damage, wood rot on interior frames and even mold and mildew growth.

According to Berkeley Lab, a national laboratory system supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, air meeting with energy-efficient windows is less likely to be cooled to its dew point temperature. This is because the inside surface temperature remains higher during cold weather, which reduces the likelihood of indoor condensation.

Condensation is most likely to form at window spacers and frames, since these are typically two of the least insulated areas of the window. However, you can avoid this situation by choosing newer materials for these components, which are designed to prevent condensation.

On the most energy efficient windows, indoor air humidity must be nearly 70 percent before condensation will form -- even if the outdoor air temperature is as low as minus-30 degrees Fahrenheit.

Energy Star-rated products are the best types of windows in New England.When youre investing in replacement windows, always be on the lookout for a Most Efficient Energy Star certification distinction. The products deemed Most Efficient exceed the standard Energy Star requirements.

-- Stephanie Vanderbilt, owner of Coastal Windows & Exteriors, would love to answer any questions that will help you make your home beautiful, warm, safe and energy-efficient. Do you have other home improvement questions she can help answer? Ask her atsvanderbilt@mycoastalwindows.com or call at 978-304-0495.

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CITY OF HUDSON, WIADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the City of Hudson in the City Hall at 505 Third Street, Hudson, Wisconsin, until Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 10 a.m., at which time Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud for the following:Phase 1 City Hall Window ReplacementIn general, Work consists of the following: Furnish all labor, materials and equipment necessary for a complete window replacement of all 3rd floor exterior windows as described in the bid documents.All bidders may view the bid documents on the city website at http://www.ci.hudson.wi.us or request a copy from the City of Hudson. Bidding Contractors are encouraged to attend a pre-bid walk through scheduled for Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 10 a.m.Any bids shall be submitted in an opaque envelope, on the forms provided, and marked with the name and address of the bidder. If the bid is sent through the mail, or other delivery system, the sealed envelope shall be enclosed in a separate envelope marked with the notation "BID ENCLOSED" and addressed to the City Administrator located at 505 Third Street, Hudson, WI 54016.A Bid shall be accompanied by Bid security made payable to Owner in an amount of 10% percent of Bidder's maximum Bid price and in the form of a certified check or bank money order or a Bid bond on the form, included in the Bidding Documents, issued by a surety meeting the requirements of the General Conditions of the Contract.The Owner reserves the right to retain the deposits of the 3 lowest bidders for a period not to exceed 60 days after the date and time set for the Opening of Bids. No Bids may be withdrawn for a period of 60 days after the date and time set for the Opening of Bids.The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, waive or not waive any informalities in the bids received and to accept any proposal which they deem most favorable to the interest of the Owner.Devin Willi, City AdministratorCity of Hudson, Wisconsin_____________________________________ (Pub. 08/03/17) WNAXLP

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