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05/15/04 How Building Products Can Reach, Markets Faster, More Profitably Achieving [these] goals above will also allow building product manufacturers to more effectively serve their customers, architects and general contractors. Richard D. Voreis
04/15/04 Sports Engineering Requires Speed, Skill, Endurance Few building structures rival the complexity of Minute Maid Park. Walter P. Moore says retractability made the analysis of the curving roof at least six times more complicated than a fixed roof of the same configuration.
02/15/04 Spam in Your Mailbox Now Outnumbers the Real Thing What used to be an annoyance has now developed into a criminal endeavor, with hackers on the Spammers’ payroll.
02/15/04 Life-cycle planning solves distance, information problems For clients with large, complex projects and properties spread over several sites, the need for comprehensive planning and architectural design services goes well beyond the ribbon-cutting.
11/15/03 Have Usefulness and Delight Been Replaced by Quirky and Hip? …the primary skill obtained in architectural education is a critical eye, one that questions itself as well as the world around it. We become so accustomed to questioning architecture that we find it difficult to produce architecture. Jeff Ponitz
09/15/03 Gehry’s New Tech Initiative This month Frank Gehry launched Gehry Technologies, a new venture to pursue technology and building industry initiatives.
08/15/03 KieranTimberlake’s SmartWrap Getting Attention Imagine bricks and mortar being replaced by “smart” walls that are made of an ultra-thin polymer-based film—the same material used in a plastic soda bottle. And the technology used is applied by a printing process.
07/15/03 Get Bullish; Say What You Mean Deloitte’s consulting arm has issued a free jargon-busting program that works close to how a spellchecker does: by targeting suspect words and nailing them.
07/15/03 Wi-Fi on Demand for All? Recent standard change and a push in major cities to embrace wi-fi could make it quicker and easier for large-file users to work without wires.
05/15/03 Designs On A Better Future When interviewing firms for this issue, we were struck by their optimism and foresight. They are not in denial, nor are they disregarding danger—but the horizon they see is one that many leaders in this industry say holds significant new opportu James P. Cramer

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