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	Building design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Building Designer is the term used in the United States and Australia for people involved in the design of buildings who are not legally registered architects.
		Because the focus of a building designer's practice may primarily be residential in nature, this particular class of design professional may or may not have the same or similar qualifications and experiences as registered architects.
		Building engineers are trained in all phases of the life cycle of a building and develop an appreciation of the building as an advanced technological system that encompasses many sub-systems and their individual components, and understands the building itself as a large integrated system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Building_design (853 words)

	Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat into the inside (a place of comfort and safety) and the outside (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful).
		Buildings are an inseparable and in most cases an essential part of basic attributes of a human life, such as home, family, work, and sex.
		The practice of designing, constructing and operating buildings is as old as the humankind and is normally a collective effort of different groups of professionals and trades.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Building (538 words)

	CBC Radio \| Ideas \| Features \| Building in the Sky
		Building in the Sky is about the architecture and construction of Toronto’s radical new Sharp Centre for Design, conceived by the renowned British architect Will Alsop.
		The centrepiece of the project is the Sharp Centre for Design.
		The new building is in a complex neighbourhood.
	www.cbc.ca /ideas/features/building_sky (287 words)

	East Building 20th Anniversary-Building Design
		The West Building is represented by the lines to the left of the drawing, with the arrow suggesting its strong east-west axis.
		During the fall of 1968 and winter of 1969, Pei and his design team explored the underlying geometry governing the structure of the new building.
		The drawing at lower left is for a design that would allow light to penetrate the interior of the building through skylights at several levels.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/20th_design.htm (875 words)

	Building Design - Campus Ecology - National Wildlife Federation
		New buildings and construction on campuses are providing many staff and students with opportunities to showcase greener materials and technologies, and enhancing the learning process.
		The orientation, walls and windows, mechanical systems, interior and furnishings of these buildings are all thoughtfully designed to reduce environmental impacts associated with manufacturing, transportation, installation and maintenance.
		Green building design projects provide great opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience and to assist the campus with research needs.
	www.nwf.org /campusEcology/dspGreening.cfm?iid=2 (215 words)

	Sourcebook Passive Solar Design
		Passive solar design refers to the use of the sun's energy for the heating and cooling of living spaces.
		Passive design is practiced throughout the world and has been shown to produce buildings with low energy costs, reduced maintenance, and superior comfort.
		A thermal chimney is a common design element in passive solar designs.
	www.greenbuilder.com /sourcebook/PassiveSol.html (708 words)

	EPA NE Regional Laboratory (OEME) Green Building Design
		The 66,000-square-foot building incorporates an array of environmental features, including energy efficient heating and cooling systems, active solar power and lighting, recycled materials, environmentally friendly landscaping, improved indoor air quality measures and support for wind-powered electricity to run the building.
		The energy efficient systems in the building include: six modular gas-fired boilers, two water-cooled chillers, daylight dimmers, occupancy sensors, skylights, energy-efficient lights, high-efficiency motors and variable flow pumping systems, variable air volume heating and cooling systems with night and low occupancy system setbacks, insulated windows, highly rated insulation, and automated building management and monitoring systems.
		Labs21 is designed to improve laboratory energy and water efficiency, encourage the use of renewable energy sources, and promote environmental stewardship.
	www.epa.gov /region1/lab/greenbuilding (996 words)

	Green Building Design
		A green building is a structure that is designed, built, renovated, operated, or reused in an ecological and resource-efficient manner.
		Green buildings are designed to meet objectives such as protecting occupant health; reducing operation and maintenance costs; using energy, water, and other resources efficiently; and reducing the overall impact to the environment.
		Green building design is related to the broader concepts of "smart growth" and sustainable development.
	www.mrsc.org /Subjects/Planning/greenbuild.aspx (1210 words)

	Equine Facility Design and Planning
		Design and planning are critical to an efficient and functional equestrian facility, be it for private or public use.
		Barn and facility design, fencing and site planning, site review and complete working drawings are available from our licensed designers, planners and landscape architects.
		Equine Facility Design is a professional design office specializing in the design of sites and structures for use by the horse community.
	www.equinesystems.com /buildingdesign.html (137 words)

	Corus in construction - Building design
		Structurally efficient buildings are more sustainable because they save resources by using materials efficiently and therefore sparingly.
		To become more sustainable, it is important that buildings are designed to accommodate changing requirements.
		By reducing the storey height in tall buildings it is possible to increase the total lettable floor area by adding extra floors within the same building height.
	www.corusconstruction.com /en/responsibility/sustainability/building_design (271 words)

	Topic: Whole-Building Design
		The Whole Building Design Guide The WBDG is the only web-based portal providing government and industry practitioners with one-stop access to up-to-date information on a wide range of building-related guidance, criteria...
		The "Whole Building" design approach is a way of designing buildings by looking at the building structure, systems and surroundings together, and considering how all these systems work best together to save energy and...
		Whole Building Design Approach Is Here to Stay A few years ago, federal agencies were issued Congressional and Executive Branch guidance which mandated that the various agencies engaged in designing federal buildings...
	search.nrel.gov /query.html?col=eren&qc=eren&style=eere&qm=1&si=0&ht=2128387210&ct=643990118 (504 words)

	Building Design
		Ms Plath was able to use knowledge from her masters thesis on child care in the design of this and other projects involving children.
		All the homes were designed to maximize natural lighting, provide privacy while encouraging the possibility of community and capture various views of the adjacent marsh and Humboldt Bay.
		She has build a reputation on designing dwellings that utilize natural light creatively, are visually interesting, energy efficient, and well suited to the clients needs, both present and future.
	ecolodging.org /resume.html (1083 words)

	Sustainable Living - building & design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Design for your future needs by including universal design features to enable your house to be lived in and visited by people of all ages and abilities.
		Universal housing is designed to meet the needs of people of all ages and abilities through application of the internationally recognised Universal Design Principles.
		The need for universally designed homes is becoming greater due to the ageing of the Australian population that is known to significantly increase the percentage of the population with a disability.
	www.sustainableliving.wa.gov.au /index.cfm?fuseaction=building_design.intro (2116 words)

	Thoreau Center: Green Building Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sustainably designed or "green" buildings are designed and operated with the goal of minimizing their impact on the environment while assuring the health of the occupants.
		The objective is to design, construct and operate an aesthetic building which meets all the occupants’ needs while performing at optimum levels of efficiency.
		A green building design must address many factors, including air quality, energy efficiency, and the application of green materials.
	www.thoreau.org /Design/greendesign.html (207 words)

	Sustainable Architecture and Building Design (SABD)
		Accordning to an OECD Project, "Sustainable building" can be defined as those buildings that have minimum adverse impacts on the built and natural environment, in terms of the buildings themselves, their immediate surroundings and the broader regional and global setting.
		Integrated design, that is design where each component is considered part of a greater whole, is critical to successful sustainable design.
		Design charettes for the end user (neighbourhood residents or office employers) are becoming a standard practice.
	arch.hku.hk /research/BEER/sustain.htm (4069 words)

	Building Design for Fire Safety - NZ Fire Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The purpose of fire safety design in a building is to allow people to escape before being overcome by the effects of fire.
		The move the performance based building code in New Zealand in 1991 changed the emphasis from following sets of rules to designing for building performance.
		The use of an alternative solution allows the designer to design fire safety into the building using fire engineering rather than relying on prescriptive rules.
	www.fire.org.nz /building/index.htm (386 words)

	Bamboo Living International Bamboo Building Design Competition
		This competition has been created to develop new award winning designs for bamboo buildings, raise awareness of the use of certified structural bamboo for building code approved structures, and introduce architects, designers and builders to working with bamboo as a structural material.
		There are design categories for different types of bamboo buildings, and winners will be chosen in each design category.
		Bamboo Technologies, currently manufacturing 20 models of certified building code approved bamboo houses, is looking for new award winning designs, and has the capacity to manufacture new designs at its bamboo building factory.
	www.bamboocompetition.com (288 words)

	Hillside Building: Design and Construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Building in the hills is an enterprise full of unpleasant surprises and traps just waiting to snare the inexperienced.
		He is. The explanations of the basic concepts of hillside building are lucid.
		To be fair, legal requirements insist that you hire an engineer to design your foundation in any event, and it had might as well be Arthur Levin.
	www.nwbuildnet.com /nwbn/bbi/hbdc.html (849 words)

	National Gallery of Art - A Design for the East Building - Introduction
		On July 9, 1968, the trustees of the National Gallery selected Pei to design a building to provide additional space for the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions, as well as a new center for research in the history of art.
		The building was to be constructed on the plot of land directly east of the West Building that Congress had reserved for the museum at its establishment in 1937.
		During the laborious design process, Pei and a small team of young architects explored many creative possibilities for the building's plan, exterior profile, and roofing of the great atrium.
	www.nga.gov /collection/20th_intro.htm (278 words)

	Building Energy Software Tools Directory : Building Design Advisor
		Software environment that supports the integration of multiple building models and databases used by analysis and visualization tools, through a single, object-based representation of building components and systems.
		BDA (Building Design Advisor) acts as a data manager and process controller, allowing building designers to benefit from the capabilities of multiple analysis and visualization tools throughout the building design process.
		The current version provides a limited database of options for building components and systems but a separate tool is available upon request to define custom components.
	www.eere.energy.gov /buildings/tools_directory/software.cfm/ID=155/pagename=alpha_list (234 words)

	Open Directory - Business: Construction and Maintenance: Design: Building Designers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Building Tectonics - UK design firm presents their philosophies, projects and contacts.
		Selbert Perkins Design Collaborative - The design team that is responsible for the LAX Gateway, glass pylon, project in Los Angeles, California.
		Wiseman-Keller Design - Designers and contractors of homes and office buildings in log or frame construction, ranches,resorts, spas and villas.
	dmoz.org /Business/Construction_and_Maintenance/Design/Building_Designers (888 words)

	Autodesk - Education - Architecture Building & Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Design the cities of tomorrow—the houses we live in, the offices we work in, the theaters we attend, the restaurants we eat in, the bridges we cross.
		In their designs, landscape architects plan the location of buildings, roads and walkways, and the arrangement of flowers, shrubs, and trees.
		As an Interior designer you plan the space and furnish the interiors of homes, public buildings, and commercial or institutional establishments, such as offices, restaurants, and theaters.
	usa.autodesk.com /adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=6080867 (1692 words)

	Industrial Design Firms Building Design Management Commercial Building Designs Plans
		From office buildings to movie theaters to banks and retail stores, we have one of the most varied portfolios of all the industrial design firms in Canada.
		As you do so, be aware that OPUS is well known among industrial design firms worldwide for its building design management as well as for its commercial building designs and construction.
		Plus, our Design-Build method of building design management has made us famous for efficient and timely project completion, often shortening time-to-occupancy by up to one third.
	www.obc.com /project (288 words)

	The Whole Building Design Process
		In most cases, overall building design, systems, and components can be considered independently at the appropriate time during the design and construction process.
		The parallel design process is highly favored by builders, because it does not require the time, energy, expense, and persuasion required to coordinate the work of several trades.
		Knowing when to continue using the simpler parallel design process, and when to make the effort required to carry out the whole building design process, requires experience and imagination.
	oikos.com /library/greenbuildingguidelines/wholebuilding.html (361 words)

	DICA -Building design
		The Laboratory of Building Design is accessible to the research group as well as to PhD, graduate and under graduate students:
		re-construction of traditional wooden buildings with a new living function, and analysis of the inner thermal and acoustic behaviour.
		Frattari "Rediscovery and conservation of the traditional building techniques for the construction of the thatched roofs", National research funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento together with the University of Trento (PAT-UNITN), year 2001.
	www.ing.unitn.it /dica/eng/research_areas/building.php (786 words)

	Sustainable Building Design
		Sustainable building design is going mainstream as the “green” movement has been picked up by architects, designers and builders at all levels of home and building design – in all environments.
		Sustainable designers keep in mind the total environmental and economic impacts as they look at buildings, energy sources and development on a full, life-cycle basis.
		Sustainable School Design demonstrates the multiple benefits of natural daylighting, improved indoor air quality and energy efficiency on the students and teachers in Texas public schools.
	www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us /re_sustain.htm (615 words)

	Green Building Design Assistance
		Whether you are building a new facility or renovating an existing one, MGE can help you optimize energy performance, reduce operating costs and help preserve the environment with energy-conscious, sustainable design features.
		Advanced Buildings: This suite of technical resources, training and information aims to improve how buildings are designed, built and used.
		Advanced Buildings was jointly developed by the New Buildings Institute and the Energy Center of Wisconsin through the support of a number of sponsors including MGE.
	www.mge.com /ecodev/howhelp/green.htm (227 words)

	Autodesk - Building Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Autodesk building solutions range from the most advanced technology for building information modeling (BIM) to the most widely adopted design and documentation solutions, supporting information and management needs throughout the building lifecycle.
		Autodesk® Revit® Building is the building design and documentation system that works the way architects and designers think.
		AutoCAD® is the 2D drafting and detailing and 3D design software that enables you to create with speed, share with ease, and manage with efficiency.
	usa.autodesk.com /adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1070631 (486 words)

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