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Rensselaer's Lighting Research Center Announces Next LED Lighting Institute Sessions
Slated for Sept. 18, 19, and 20, 2007, Rensselaer Polytechnic's Lighting Research Center (LRC) LED Lighting Institute has been expanded to accommodate the requests of previous students for more information and more time for hands-on sessions with LEDs.
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Online Service Streamlines Architectural Modeling Process
LGM, a leading architectural modeling shop, is now offering a Web service that reduces the time required for ordering and producing architectural models.
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how do you deliver the goods?
architects must find a way to bring better design to more people.
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Induction Technology Featured in New Electrolux ICON™ Infinite™ Cooking System Powerful, flexible and responsive to your needs as well as your commands, the Electrolux ICON™ Infinite™ Cooking System combines art with science for a cooking experience that is unusually effortless. Our Infinite™ Cooking System is unique among cooking technologies. By generating a magnetic field, heat is created only when an electromagnetic element comes into contact with steel cookware. In short, the pot becomes the heating element while the cooktop remains cool. Click here to learn more.

Engineered Wood Association is Now ANSI Accredited
APA-The Engineered Wood Association was recently accredited as a standards developer by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), marking a milestone in APA's efforts to advance engineered wood industry interests in the building codes and standards arena.
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International Code Council Adopts SIPs into IRC
Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) achieved a major milestone in their history May 22, 2007 when the International Code Council (ICC) voted to adopt the building system into the International Residential Code (IRC), Section R614.
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The Professional’s Choice: Next Dimension Pro Windsor Windows & Doors recently introduced a professional grade vinyl window designed for light commercial, multi-family and residential applications. Featuring the Easy-Out Sash System™, Next Dimension Pro allows cleaning of the entire window from inside the home. Additionally, Mikron® vinyl extrusions ensure superior durability while Edgetech Super Spacer® and LoE2 Cardinal® glass provide a highly efficient glazing system. With a competitive price and lifetime-limited warranty, Next Dimension Pro is a smart and attractive window choice. Learn more at www.windsorwindows.com

Southern Pine Council Calls For Award Entries
The Southern Pine Council, a division of the Southern Forest Products Association, is now accepting entries for the 2007 Long-Sullivan Award, which recognizes a designer, architect, builder, engineer, component manufacturer, treater, or other industry pro who promotes and demonstrates the use of Southern pine in unique and creative ways in commercial or residential construction.
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High Water: Designing Rooftop Pools
Narrow lots in urban settings make it difficult—but not impossible—to provide a swimming pool. Some custom home pros solve the problem by locating the pool on the roof. That solution poses design and construction challenges while it offers view and privacy opportunities. Featured here are three pools that successfully rose to the top.
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AZEK® TRIMBOARDS HAS THE EDGE ON DESIGN AND LONGEVITY The sky’s the limit when it comes to designing exterior trim with AZEK Trimboards. Specify the leading brand of trim for long-lasting beauty and designs that will withstand the test of time. AZEK Trimboards is more versatile than wood, both on the jobsite and in the millwork shop, where it can be easily milled, mitered, routed, turned on lathe and even heat-formed into arches and unique shapes. It does not require paint for protection, however if a paint color is desired, it has excellent paint adhesion that will last years longer than painted wood. Now, new Sherwin-Williams VinylSafe Color Technology makes it possible to paint AZEK products in a broad range of darker colors to suit any home design. With a 25-year warranty, AZEK Trimboards is the only brand of trim to hold a building code report (ESR-1074). Visit www.azek.com or call 1-877-ASK-AZEK

Exploring Light in the Urban Realm
An international draw of architects, lighting designers, urban planners, and lighting industry professionals assembled in Rotterdam, the Netherelands on the occasion of the Philips' City.People.Light Forum.
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Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List
"Proportion is the good breeding of architecture." So wrote literary giant Edith Wharton and architect Ogden Codman Jr. in their 1897 interior design classic. The collaborators off ered a world of radical—for the time—advice on modern interiors...
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