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The pressure was put on due to California’s 2006 global warming law mandating a cut in carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Some California cities, like Los Angeles (LA), are taking the changes to heart. LA is doing its part by adopting new building plans that require large developments to be 15% more energy efficient than in previous years.
Rueben Grijalva, California State Fire Marshall has pushed for many of the changes to the 2007 Building Codes. This is in response to the devastation that resulted from the recent wildfires in the state. The changes in this new 2008 California Building Code include additional wild land-urban interface fire protection standards.
March 30th, 2008
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Taking effect on January 1, 2008 is the 2008 California Building Code. Some of the more prominent areas of the change have centered on environmentally friendly construction, equal access for disabled persons, and more fire safety. This new set of codes is based on the latest national as well as international model building codes.
The chair of the Building Standards Commission and the Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency, Rosario Marin, stated that this will put California back to the forefront in the use of the latest technology for code enforcement, safe construction, fire prevention, and building safety.
March 28th, 2008
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The Mexico City as we know today began as a rough sketch of an urban plan – attributed to Alonso de García Bravo, one of Hernán Cortés’ henchmen – incorporating the two main axes at 90 degrees to the central plaza, with the streets following a grid formation. The first ever constructions built on the vestiges of Aztec temples were fortress-like buildings that reflected the Spaniards’ fear of retribution after the massacre of the indigenous population. However, by the end of the 16th century, having them established their dominance; the Spaniards began building a more elaborate Plateresque construction, an ornamental style typical of the Spanish Renaissance.
March 25th, 2008
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A new urban construction plan that divides the Beijing into 250,000 units for future construction has been reported to the city’s municipal government for approval. They reported the details on regulations on controlled areas and prohibited areas of construction. According to Mr. Tan Xuxiang, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning (BMCUP), the Current Urban Construction Planning report introduces the concept of the “controlled-construction areas”. This idea integrates rigid management of public facilities construction with the protection of all the ecological resources like urban water supply, lakes, rivers, marshes and scenic spots. In the past, to provide a much better shopping environment for the residents, we may have knocked down a school to make way for a supermarket. Now this would never ever happen again”, said director Tan.
March 15th, 2008
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Say that you and your neighbors have been living a quiet, peaceful life on your tree-lined city block for the years. Suddenly, you see lots of construction workers digging in that vacant lot next to your condo or co-op building. So you go down to the city offices and find out that someone has bought the lot and filed plans to construct a new, taller building. The kind of notification that the builders need to give neighbors can vary with the location, which is according to the attorney of a law firm in Snow Becker Krauss in Manhattan, Atty. Marc Luxemburg.
March 10th, 2008
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Inspection is a very essential element of the construction process that Urban can provide with the utmost confidence. Our Construction Inspection Division offers a very wide array of services performed by talented long-time professionals. Having them provided with a construction inspection services for more than four decades for a variety of multi-million dollar projects; our Construction Inspection Division’s the No. 1 goal is “client satisfaction.” The Urban’s staff provides experienced, knowledgeable, and capable professional engineers, managers and inspectors necessary to realize a project’s goals in a timely and cost-effective manner while meeting the plan and specification requirements. In addition, our Construction Inspection professionals provide clients with an established system of checks and balances to monitor all the quality and timeliness of work in terms of plans, specifications, and standards.
March 5th, 2008
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In 2007, some 677,800 homes were under construction (GUS), and more than in the previous year. Individually funded housing construction do still prevails. Among those homes were completed last year is as many as 53.5% that were built at individual people’s cost. But developers’ property share in the market is growing – last year they delivered 34.2% of all homes for use, while back in 2004 individual investors built more homes. Since the developers provide building shells, optionally with a complete bathroom, no wonder that – following the housing boom – more and more people become interested in interior design and the decorative materials.
March 1st, 2008
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