Clip-Ons For Buildings: The Real Thing (The New York Sun)

Successfully tying a bow tie is an elusive feat, and many a young man in formal attire on prom night resorts to a clip-on. It's not the real thing, of course, but it looks fine and saves a lot of frustrating moments. In buildings, clip-ons are the real thing. Usually involving new glass façades, real estate clip-ons not only provide an aesthetic improvement, but also help financially by reducing ...

BSU to fix buildings by 2012 (Ball State Daily News)

During the next four years, several Ball State University buildings will undergo two phases of construction, a university official said.

Kernel Editorial: As buildings fall, accept potential with new design (The Kentucky Kernel)

The bulldozers arrived, the buildings fell and with them went the last hopes for an appeal to stop the demolition of the CentrePointe block. We knew it was coming - the razing was unanimously approved at the end of June, The Dame and Busters officially closed nearly a month ago- but still we held tight to the thought that someone (hopefully historical preservation group Preserve Lexington), ...

Gibbons wants to go solar on new state buildings (Las Vegas Sun)

Wed, Jul 23, 2008 (4 p.m.) CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons believes solar energy should be used in all future state buildings.

Downtown structures could be demolished to make room for bigger buildings (The Wilmington Star-News)

As old buildings make way for new construction, some fear downtown will lose its character, becoming, as one person put it, Anywhere USA.

Energy performance of buildings (Times of Malta)

• Sale or rent of buildings. Certain types of buildings are exempted from these requirements.

Public buildings to be strengthened against quakes (Haaretz Daily)

Israel's public buildings will become more resistant to the temblors that periodically shake the region, following an allocation to actually pay for the work.