When we heard about Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center, our opinion would be directly guided to an amazing simple and elegant building in Berkeley, California. This is a great building that has been renovated few times. Historical renovations given to the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center makes it better along the time. Some common accessories such as ceiling fans, thermal mass and natural ventilation belong to the building give so many advantages to the operation of the building and the maintenance.
The renovation done by ELS Architecture and Urban Design looks special because what they have given to the MLK Civic Center makes it looks and feels better. The decision to replace existing perimeter steam radiators with hot water radiators means better efficiency. It can be felt also from the concrete structure in the open corridors. This building also applies green building strategies, includes installing high efficiency fluorescent lighting, photometric control, central ceiling fans, programmable thermostat and motion sensors.
With additional public space on the penthouse level, this MLK Civic Center provides a magnificent view directly to the bay. Because of the renovation, Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center has given some awards, including from Saving by Design Honor, California Historic Preservation and Special Recommendation Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association. Read the rest of this entry »
If your company works in an oil and mining industry, you will need some equipment to help you run your job. This is important to choose qualified equipment for the fact; oil is not really easy to be processed. So, you have to find a place to get all equipment which is proper to your need. This seems really easy but actually it is not. Not all places can provide complete equipment for you. If you buy your equipment in some different stores, you will get loss. The reason is; the price is probably different and the calculation will not really beneficial from the effective and efficient point of view.
You might have known that you can get the used oil drilling equipment easily. Even though you can find lots of companies providing much equipment which can support your mining activity, the quality of the equipment is still in doubt. You certainly want to find complete equipment on the category, model, and make. Finding a broker company which can provide the sale items from many manufacturers is quite helpful. It makes you able to find choices of mining equipment in one place. So, if you want to buy the equipment based on certain manufacturer, you can also get it easily. There are many manufacturers which are being partner of the broker company. You can easily get the offers over the internet. In fact, you may get the online catalogue that can lead you to the entire selection of mining equipment. You can also get the latest mining equipment for your company.
Don’t wait too long, you only need to search over the internet to get the equipment that you want. It will help you to expand your business and support the continuity of your mining activity. Just make sure that you know the qualities that you want on your mining equipment. This crucial information will lead you to the offers that you need for your company.
To run a business in the matter of construction is actually very promising. We all know that the condition at this recent time really needs such service. Let us take the example of road construction and the likes. Such thing is one of the greatest sources for the construction service owner to gain big amount of money.
Perhaps, one thing that becomes the problem for such service is the difficulties in finding the project. Whenever there is project, there will be a lot of construction services which will fight to get such project. They will do almost anything to convince the project owner or the developer to use their service. Of course, such thing will be hard for the small construction services since they will lose the battle to get the projects.
However, with the existence of internet technology, such matter can become less problematic. There are some websites that can provide the lists of the projects in certain area. So the construction service can choose the project easily. There is no need to fight for the services. It is because the projects will be done by the service which wins the auction. Yes, indeed, it is so great, isn’t it? For addition, the websites can also provide some kind of equipment auction so the construction service can also find the equipments in relatively cheaper price and also easier.
A-cero architecture studio, directed by Joaquin Torres, presents a project to rehabilitate a downtown building where work will be carried out refurbishment of the front facade and side of the apartment building located on a busy street in the Madrid Community. This is a four-story building + basement and cover is not practicable.
The plot takes the form of a regular polygon with four sides, with a rounded corner and covers an area of 553.45 m2. Bordered houses building adjoining on the north and Calle San Marcos on the south, Barquillo Street on the east, and west by a residential building. As for access, with roads that allow motor vehicles to transport people.
At the request of the property will be made timely preparation work on the two facades above to deal with it. Cleanup will occur, protection and sealing of the various component parts of the facade.
It was intended to review the enclosure in order to detect problems anchoring and sealing of the facade and to solve the humidity detected. There will be review and grouting of carpentry repair and replacement if necessary, exterior trim and cons.
It is the cleansing of the area’s stony facade, to dispose dry areas with biological attacks by removing lichen and moss bristle brushes and wire, to finally start treating wet cleaning, with water sprayed and brushed. During this phase will be purified cracks and sores. Read the rest of this entry »
A-cero architecture studio presents a new single-family housing project located in an exclusive area of Madrid. This is a 3-level house on a plot of 1 hectare. In a future post, we will show pictures of the finished home.
In the basement are located: garage facilities, wardrobe, storage, pantry, cellar, laundry-drying area, linen room, gym, locker room, bathroom and Turkish bath, distributed around 609m2.
On the ground floor are located: hall-dealer, kitchen and office, with pantry and fourth lingerie, games room, dining room, bathroom and closet. Also located on this bedroom floor and guest bathroom. Outside the sports facilities are related to housing: swimming pool and paddle tennis court, with a total area of 838m2.
Top floor houses the living-library, five bedrooms, five bathrooms and two dressing rooms, dimensions and shape according to their function. Also, access stairs to the deck, the proposed use as a solarium, all on 420m2. This level has a total area of 52m2. Read the rest of this entry »
