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Sitting for GMAT? Taking a package tour? Good. Be prepared to pay more as service tax.

Reams have been written about what the Budget means for businessmen. But it also affects many other groups.

Students who are planning to write the GMAT or GRE should be prepared to shell out more from April. Fees on coaching classes are set to rise with the increase in service tax rate.

The peak rate of service tax has been increased to 12 per cent from 10 per cent. On a fee of Rs 50,000 service tax is currently Rs 5,000 (education cess additional), from April this will increase to Rs 6,000.

Students who train in a dance or sports academy may also have to pay a higher fee. Accommodation and canteen service charges at PG hostels may also go up.

But it is not all bad.

The Budget has however offered some relief to the student community and the parents by putting school education and all recognised higher education out of the purview of service tax in 2012-13.

It also proposes to set up a credit guarantee fund to back up education loans. That may make bank loans for education easier to obtain and may reduce their cost as well.

Women at home will find finances getting tighter and may have to wrestle with men for more money to mange the household.

The across the board increase in excise duty to 12 per cent from 10 per cent is set to increase the price of household items ranging from processed foods, beauty products and kitchen appliances.

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23-03-2012 16:32 Alykhan Velji is a popular interior decorator, TV personality, and home-magazine columnist and he stopped by the CTV studio to show us the top design trends.

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Santa Fe is experiencing an uptick in commercial construction this spring, particularly on the south side.

The city Land Use Department has issued about half a dozen major commercial construction permits in the last 60 days.

Notable projects along city's southwestern edge include a McDonald's restaurant, State Employees Credit Union, and Murphy's Oil filling station going in at Las Soleras development east of Cerrillos Road near the Super Wal-Mart. Work has begun on a new building for a Guadalupe Credit Union on the south side of Airport Road, just east of Jemez Road, and a Dollar General store west of South Meadows in the same area was recently completed.

Downtown, the Drury Hotels chain last week started construction of a parking garage that will accompany its planned renovation of the old St. Vincent Hospital buildings into a 200-room hotel.

"What we are seeing is commercial construction that is self-financed on the corporate level," said Land Use Director Matthew O'Reilly.

Construction in the city slowed in fiscal year 2009/10, but this fiscal year shows some signs of recovery.

The total volume of building permits issued has increased about 35 percent from the 2009 trough, he said. Those numbers are somewhat deceiving, however, because many of the permits are for very small projects such as home renovations.

"I don't know if it is a sign of recovery, but for Santa Fe, it is a sign that people are spending some money on real estate, whether they are renovating a commercial building or renovating or doing additions to residential structures," O'Reilly said. "I think that is a good thing. It puts money into the economy and employs contractors and it means people are wanting to invest back into their property."

At a Little Caesars Pizza restaurant and drive-thru on the west side of Cerrillos Road between the Arby's Restaurant and the Long John Silver's, Star Construction expects to wrap up exterior work next month. Another contractor will do interior work, said foreman Isaac Cisneros. The Albuquerque-based company started in January and brought all its workers to Santa Fe from Albuquerque, Edgewood and Moriarty. It also bought most of its supplies there, he said.

For Winona Nava, president and chief executive officer of Guadalupe Credit Union, having Santa Fe workers was important, she said.

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Although some March rains have begun greening up the area, curious onlookers couldnt help but ogle over a new shade of green at Beatrice High School.

The $2 million stadiums central feature, a synthetic turf field, began being rolled out Thursday morning. The process will continue over the next 10 days to two weeks, weather permitting.

Symmetry Turf Installation, a Mount Pleasant, Texas company, typically installs 30 synthetic turf fields a year.

Last week, the company installed the Baltimore Ravens indoor practice facility turf. Symmetry Turf Installations resume also includes M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, the Superdome in New Orleans, La., and the HHH Metrodome, home of the Minnesota Vikings.

On Wednesday, the two semi-trucks carrying what will become the field of the stadium unloaded the rolled turf lengths.

After steamrolling the rock base, crews stretched the turf across the field, anchoring it to the ground. By folding the turf back on itself, workers stitched the pieces together from the bottom. They also cut patterns for letters and numbers which will be installed later.

BPS Superintendent Jon Lopez said he received reports of plenty of interested onlookers driving out to the high school to see the progress made Thursday.

Hopefully, in the next couple of weeks, well get to see some more progress, Lopez said.

Currently, the substantial completion date of the project is May 1.

We want to make sure all of the elements that we are promising that are going to be in the project are done and done correctly, Lopez said. The substantial completion date is May 1 but were discussing extending that. We dont want to rush anyone.

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Rolling out the green carpet

Location: San Antonio, Texas

Capacity: 65,000

The Alamodome is an anomaly amongst indoor college football stadiums. It was built for the purpose of being an NFL stadium, but San Antonio was never able to attract an NFL team.

When the University of Texas-San Antonio started up a college football team in 2011 and became the main tenants of the Alamodome, the stadium became the largest indoor stadium whose main tenant is a college football team.

The large capacity of the Alamodome has been a huge help for the upstart Roadrunners. In their inaugural home game, they managed to attract over 50,000 fans, who were able to fit comfortably into the spacious Alamodome. They also managed to set the record for highest average attendance for a first year college football team, averaging over 35,000 per home game. The spacious confines of the Alamodome are a major reason for that.

The downside to the Alamodome is because it was a stadium designed for football that went almost two decades without a major football team as a tenant, it has not been kept up very well as a football stadium. The inside needs some renovations in order to modernize it and make it a more enjoyable football stadium.

With a little tender love and care, the Alamodome could become one of the premier indoor stadiums in all of college football.

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A Dundee-based firm of architects has won a contest to design the visitor centre at the 43m Helix project near Falkirk.

Nicoll Russell Studios beat global competition to secure the 1m contract.

The company will also create the public space inside the 30m (98ft) high Kelpie Heads, designed by sculptor Andy Scott.

The Helix project, which was approved in 2009, is aiming to transform 300 hectares of unused land between Falkirk and Grangemouth.

It is being co-ordinated by Falkirk Council, British Waterways and the Central Scotland Forest Trust.

Nicoll Russell Studios, which has its head office in Broughty Ferry, was chosen by a panel of four judges from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).

Brian Moore, director of RIAS Consultancy, said: "The calibre and level of response to the competition was overwhelming and myself and the other judges had a tough time trying to shortlist five, let alone decide on a winner.

"Ultimately, we were looking for a practice whose designs best met the objectives of the wider project and which would deliver an architecturally outstanding but realistic proposal within the given budget."

Work on the Helix project, which also includes a canal extension, pathways and cycle networks, began in February 2011.

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Published: Friday, March 23, 2012 at 10:20 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 23, 2012 at 10:20 p.m.

A design for Houma's planned youth-education center on wetland-science and coastal-restoration issues should be complete by this summer.

Organizers with the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center say they hope to use the design to launch a fundraising campaign.

We're looking forward to taking the next step, said Martha Thibodeaux, president of the center's foundation. We want to prepare something visual and concrete to wage our capital campaign.

The center aims to teach middle- and high-school-age children about wetlands issues. It will be built on land behind the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center and will also have exhibits to attract visitors.

Board members selected the Perez architectural firm of New Orleans to design the buildings. Audubon Studios, a design staff at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, will design the museum themes, habitats and exhibits.

Spackman, Mossop + Michaels, a group with experience designing for zoos, educational facilities and botanical gardens, will serve as landscape designer.

The group will pay Perez $54,910 for the design, which will be ready by June, said Jonathan Foret, the center's development director.

The group hopes to raise about $1.2 million to build the main building. It will continue to raise money to expand the center from there, which will cost about $4.5 million total, Foret said.

The center will have to renegotiate a deal with the Terrebonne Parish Council that set aside land for the center. The council agreed to set aside the land for five years to give organizers time to raise money; that deal expires later this year.

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GARNER OPN Architects of Cedar Rapids completed nearly three days of discussion in Garner on Wednesday about what renovations citizens would like to see in their library.

The design which received the most support on Wednesday was extending the building by a total of about 3,000 square feet from the back of the facility.

The building at 416 State St. now measures 6,166 square feet. Plans include new heating and cooling systems, roof and replacement of several interior walls with columns, according to OPN architect Brad Brown.

We want to give you a nice, open flexible space, Brown said.

The plan also includes a large skylight to allow natural light into the building.

Among the other ideas were a separate childrens area with a large space for storytime and other activities, a teen space with bean bag chairs and an adult space with comfortable chairs and a fireplace.

Library director Ellen Petty said the library was built in 1978.

Most of the stuff in it is original to the building, Petty said.

The architects will return to Garner in about a month with drawings of the exterior facade, interior spaces and cost estimates.

We have Wi-Fi but we dont have places for people to sit and use it because thats not how the building was configured 34 years ago, Petty said.

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The exhibition and retail pavilion inside the Postojna cave is the first underground post office building in the world. The aim of the project was the renovation of a pavilion in the Concert Hall deemed inappropriate functionally and material-wise. The design would as well replace previously inappropriate visitor sanitary facilities located at the platform with new ones within the structure and connect them to a new biological treatment plant. The entire construction was possible only within the maximum dimensions of the partly demolished existing structure, while the specifics of construction in an underground cave required the use of inorganic construction materials appropriate for such conditions, adjusted to simple transport by the cave train and appropriate for manual fitting.

The entire construction and fitting of construction elements observed nature protection requirements for the smallest impact on the value of nature possible. The concept of sustainability is also reflected in the heating system and ventilation and, last but not least, the first underground biological treatment plant in Slovenia.

The exhibition and retail pavilion is designed in two parts. The pavilion part is a transparent, passable area with four entrances/exits, designed within a longitudinal volume in the form of the letter S, thus reflecting the wall of the underground hall. The volume is structured in a manner that directs the flow of visitors and points to entrances and exits.

In the renovated service part of the structure, service areas and new sanitary facilities for the visitors of the postojna cave were provided as well as connected to the treatment plant on the level of the platform. The interior of the structure functions as a uniform, flexible space with installed floor plugs for plug-in exhibits and movable equipment. The volume of the exhibition and retail area is transparent throughout the entire interior height, functioning as an extension of the concert hall.

The exhibition and retail area is flexible, as it is equipped with floor plugs prepared for plug-in equipment elements or exhibits. Other equipment elements in the exhibition niche can also be plugged in as desired to wall holders according to required exhibition or retail purposes.

Architects: Studio Stratum Polona Filipic, Peter Senk, Marko Pretnar, Grega Tramte Location: Postojna, Slovenia Collaborators: Marko Senk, Peter Emil Groselj Client: Postojnska jama, d.d. Structure: Spit d.o.o. Services: Winky d.o.o., Arctur d.o.o. Biological Treatment Plant: Cid d.o.o. Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Miran Kambic

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Exhibition and Retail Pavillion in the Concert Hall in the Postojna Cave / Studio Stratum