Building Demolition 11-8-14 Implosion NERSHA Explosion Blow up High Rise Atlanta explode
NERSHA building aka the Southern Bell Learning Center High Rise ( 19 stories if I understood right) came down 7:00 AM10-08-2014 .. now directions will be ..turn left where the tall building...
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RESIDENTS are being given the chance to build their own dream homes in one of the city's regeneration areas.
Burslem and Middleport Local Forum has secured more than 55,000 in Government cash for the self-build schemes in Middleport.
Architects will work with potential home-builders to design their own affordable houses in Newport Lane, Harper Street and Longport Road where previous properties were demolished.
The three projects will be managed by Burslem-based regeneration partnership Urban Vision.
Forum chairman Clare White, below, said: "We hope our ideas will add to the emerging confidence in the area and show that self-build and custom-build aren't just options for professional builders or the rich.
"There have been many examples of self-build and custom-build houses in the past in Stoke-on-Trent, but for a long time people have lacked the confidence or finance to build homes for themselves.
"We hope that these projects will lead the way in the development of high-quality homes that will last for generations and make use of the empty spaces in our city."
Mick Downs, director of Urban Vision, added: "Urban Vision is delighted to be working with the Local Forum on this project and taking the first practical step to making the idea of community-led self-build housing in Middleport a reality."
The 55,700 awarded by the Homes & Communities Agency will pay for architects' fees and feasibility studies.
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The outbound Fort Pitt Tunnel will close this weekend as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation begins a $14.2 million project to remove the deteriorated ceiling.
The tunnel will close at 10 p.m. Friday and reopen by 6 a.m. Monday. The posted detour uses West Carson Street to the West End Bypass. PennDOT is warning drivers of likely significant traffic delays.
The inbound tunnel will be open, but traffic may be stopped briefly at times during equipment movement and debris removal.
The closure is the first of eight weekend shutdowns planned as part of the project. The dates of the remaining closures have not been announced.
The additional closures will be scheduled to minimize impacts on Downtown events when possible, the department said in its announcement.
The project also will cause four overnight closures on weekends and lane restrictions during off-peak hours and on weekends. Overnight lane closures will begin in both directions in January.
In addition to removing the ceiling, the project calls for repairs to the walls, drainage improvements, relocating closed-circuit TV cameras, and milling and resurfacing the roadways.
In a related development, nightly closures of the Parkway West may be over for the year.
This weeks schedule for restrictions in the work zone between Green Tree and Interstate 79 calls for single-lane traffic in both directions in the area of the Carnegie interchange starting at 10 p.m. daily through Saturday. Restrictions will be lifted by 6 a.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Spokesman Steve Cowan said the department is hoping to avoid any additional full closures in the work zone until the $72.8 million reconstruction project goes on winter hiatus in mid-December. If the traffic pattern is shown to pose a danger to drivers or workers, full overnight closures will be reinstated, he said.
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Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings in the Vatican have been brought to life with innovative light emitting diode (LED) lighting. The new installation, developed by the EU-funded LED4ART project, enables visitors to better appreciate the paintings and frescos, protects the artwork from damage and uses significantly less electricity than conventional lighting rigs.
This demonstration installation shows how museums and galleries can install flexible and effective lighting solutions that are also incredibly energy efficient. By replacing the Sistine Chapel's existing lighting system with the latest in LED technology, the project partners have been able to achieve electricity savings of up to 90 %.
LEDs based on inorganic semiconductors are incredibly efficient and offer a greener alternative to conventional lighting. They are mercury-free, have a long lifetime and could enable Europe to achieve significant energy savings if rolled out extensively.
By switching to LED lights, Europe could decrease carbon dioxide emissions from electric power use by up to 50 % in just over 20 years. Making the switch is therefore one of the most cost-effective and simple ways to tackle global warming using existing technology, resulting in a significant contribution to CO2 reduction at European level.
There was also of course an important conservation aspect to LED4ART. The project wanted to demonstrate how LED lighting can play an important role in the protection of artwork, as it is gentler than other forms of artificial light. At the same time, LED offers fantastic levels of illumination, ensuring that artwork can be fully appreciated by visitors.
This made the Vatican City's Sistine Chapel the ideal venue for LED4ART. World-famous for its 15th century frescos by the likes of Botticelli and Perugino and Michelangelo's ceiling masterpiece, the chapel receives millions of visitors every year. Ultraviolet light has been fading the colour of these 500-year old paintings for decades, so a practical solution was needed that would enable people to enjoy the paintings in a more protective environment.
The solution was to switch the chapel's lighting from conventional bulbs to LED. The LED4ART project installed around 7 000 LEDs in the chapel, concealed beneath a ledge that runs the length of the room. The colour spectrum of each light was custom-made to ensure that the light emitted was as close as possible to natural light; there are no disproportionate blues or reds that might affect viewing.
The LED installation ensures that the artwork is uniformly illuminated, and that the frescos can be appreciated in their entirety. The flexibility of the installation means that each light can be adjusted to give the impression that the chapel is continuously bathed in natural light.
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Monday, November 10, 2014 - 6:23pm
There is a massive Arctic air mass that is going to bring frigid air impacting 230 million people north and east of the Borderland. Our area will just catch the edge of this icy air, but Las Cruces should see the first freeze of the year Thursday morning and El Paso into the chilly upper 30's. This got me thinking about how I can keep warm and save on my heating bills. I did a little research and here are some tips I found and I thought I would share.
According to the U.S.. Department of Energy, drafts can waste 5% to 30% of your energy use. Start simple and adopt that old Great Depression fixture -- the draft snake, which you can easily make yourself. Just place a rolled bath towel under a drafty door, or make a more attractive DIY draft snake with crazy eyes, felt tongues and the like. You can use any scraps of fabric even old neckties and fill with sand or kitty litter for heft. Walk around your home on a chilly night and, using bare hands and feet, feel around your doors, windows, lights, and switch plates for cold air. If you detect cold air leaking in, this means that your warm air is going outside. You need to add insulation to these areas, or seal them using weather-stripping, caulk, or spray foam.
2. Install plastic film on all your windows
Install a plastic window installation film on all windows. This type of winterization is known as window insulation. When applied, the plastic film prevents cold air from entering a home while keeping heated air inside of the home. Plastic window insulation film is available at any major home improvement retail store. To install, clean the window, and measure its height and width. Add 2 inches to the window measurements, and tape the plastic film to the edges of the window frame. Use a hair dryer to secure the plastic film to the window glass, and carefully cut away the excess film from the window.
3. Reverse Your Ceiling Fan
Reverse the rotation of your ceiling fan blades from counterclockwise to clockwise; most ceiling fans have a switch for this. When a home heater is running, hot air rises and rests at the ceiling of the room. When you reverse the blade circulation of a ceiling fan, the fan blades force heated air down the walls and circulate heated air throughout the room, according to Dan's Fan City.
4. Check Your Furnace Filter
Before you start running your furnace, check the filter it may need to be replaced. If your furnace filter looks dirty, then definitely replace it. During the winter months, I change my furnace filter every 4 to 6 weeks. Having a clean filter helps your furnace run more efficiently, which can save you energy and money. According to Planet Green, a clean filter can save you 5% to 15% on your heating bill. Also if needed, consider upgrading your thermostat to a programmable thermostat. Installation is easy, and the ability to program your thermostat to only work when you need it can save more money on heating during the long winter months.
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The new East Library is slated to open on Saturday, Nov. 22. One of three works by artist Ray Chi is in. Another arrives this week and the third will be installed in spring. kathryn e. martin's installation uses re-purposed wood from trees that stood on Cramer Street. The service desk is a question mark. Artist Santiago Cucullu used photos submitted by the public for his two adhesive murals. The kids' area will have a Duplo table and the windows will have a film that lets in light but softens the view of the adjacent parking lot. You'll be surprised how little book shelving is in the new library. The teen area has marker boards on the wall. There is comfy -- and easy to clean -- seating throughout. A fireplace makes it feel even more like home. The laptop bars are made of wood claimed from the old library on the site. Lots of natural light in this new library. The community room serves as a reading room but is also available for events and meetings. The channel glass walls will glow at night. The library has plenty of seating. The Standard has four floors of apartments above the library. The one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments have terraces. The building has a number of interesting textures on the exterior. Like this one... ...and this one. The East Library is currently in a temporary location at 2430 N. Murray Ave. Published Nov. 10, 2014 at 1:05 p.m.
When we visited the new East Library space on the ground floor of The Standard on North Avenue in July, the space was mostly undefined.
Despite a few half-finished walls and the shell, there was little to see but drawings and a few nascent details. A quick peek last month showed quite a bit of progress, but nothing quite like how the place looked when we got a tour last week from branch manager Rachel Collins.
One of three installations by Ray Chi is taking shape nicely. Chi's bike rack arrives this week and his third piece will be installed in spring. Insidem kathryn e. martin's art installation using honey locusts cut down outside on Cramer Street -- along with a slice of re-purposed stump from another site -- is in, and so is the time capsule in the wall behind it.
The curvilicious service desk, shaped like a question mark (you get to be the dot), is in place and so is nearly all of the shelving for books. The ceiling above the stacks re-uses ceiling decking from the old East Library building.
"This is definitely part of being green," Collins says. "We were happy to be able to repurpose quite a bit of the ceiling wood."
But what's most interesting, perhaps, is how little shelving there actually is.
"As I'm seeing it unfold I'm really seeing that 21st century library emerge," says Collins. "We aren't a place of just storage anymore. A majority of our library is seating, collaborative space. We've really reduced (the stacks).
"We have three meeting spaces now. I have a feeling the study room nearest to North Avenue is going to be a hot spot.
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A proper dust collection system is what separates good workshops from great ones. A well thought-out system will provide a safer work environment and youll spend less time cleaning and more time building.
In the above video, Steve Maxwell takes us through his woodworking shop and shares his tips for setting up an effective dust collection system. His system consists of a main dust collector, ambient air purifier and ductwork that connects everything.
A larger workshop with multiple woodworking tools such as a thickness planer, router and table saw requires a near-industrial approach. A smaller workshop that would typically be seen in a garage can get away with a workshop vac or smaller dust collector.
Buying a dust collection system is easy determining your layout and design is the hard part. Adding a dust collector can make an already tight space even tighter, so you may need to reconsider the location of all of your tools as well as possibly purge tools that you hardly ever use (yeah right!).
A leak-free vacuum system is the primary goal. Go with spiral rigid duct tubing which is more durable and and clear polyurethane flex hose which allows you to seek any blockages. Test your system by closing all of the blast gates and turn the system on. It should not puff up like a balloon like it would when a blast gate is open.
Our favourite tip from Steves video is his recommendation of a floor sweep. Run tubing to the floor and attach the floor sweep to the ground. Then just sweep any extra sawdust into the vacuum without having to use a dustpan.
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Geosynthetic Application | How "Reinforced Soil Structure with Wrap-Around Facing" is done?
Reinforced Soil Structure with Wrap-Around Facing -Concept- Filled soil bag wrapped around by the reinforcing geogrid forming the facing of the retaining wall. The wall surface can be vegetated...
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November 7th, 2014 - Gemstone Gridiron Deck Party (Lions vs Stampeders)
A video prepared using GoPro footage taken during the evening. This is our highlight reel for the Gemstone Gridiron Deck halftime party. Thanks to Keystone Retaining Wall Systems as our dedicated...
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