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A foot model in New York City is suing her upscale apartment building, claiming the co-op board is trying to force her out because she married its former doorman.
Homes and office buildings consume three-quarters of U.S. electricity, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory wants to lower that figure by erecting what it believes will be the largest "net-zero" energy building in the world — one that produces as much power onsite as it uses.
ORLANDO, Fla. - One person was killed and at least seven were critically wounded in a shooting inside a downtown Orlando high-rise building Friday morning, authorities said. The suspect was described as on the loose and extremely dangerous.
Hawaii-based Alexander & Baldwin Inc. says it has completed the sale of an 18-story office building in Honolulu for $38 million.
The off-duty security guard who fatally shot a psychiatric patient as the patient stabbed a doctor says he "just did what anybody would have done."
A maintenance crew discovered what looked like a mutilated body with a severed head on top of an Anchorage office building. But any urgency responding police officers had Wednesday calmed once they discovered the remains were the partial carcass of an ungulate, likely a moose.
Federal safety officials are warning workers around the country not to clear gas lines indoors after a North Carolina factory blast killed three people.
Red and yellow lights shone from the top of the Empire State Building at dusk Wednesday, a tribute to communist China's 60th anniversary that protesters labeled "blatant approval" of totalitarianism and criticized as inappropriate for an icon in the land of the free.
Three months after an explosion at a Slim Jim factory in North Carolina killed three people, a state panel has made emergency changes to its gas guidelines despite federal inaction on the standards.
Fire officials in Buffalo, N.Y., say two firefighters are missing after a floor in a burning building collapsed.
A five-story building collapsed in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least 21 people, mostly women and children, authorities said Saturday.
Autopsies show three workers killed in the collapse of a Slim Jim factory in North Carolina were crushed to death.
John Devaney and his colleagues weren't exactly sure what Neil Armstrong would set foot on when he climbed down the ladder of the lunar module to the surface of the moon.
For some state employees, going to work really stinks. Aging sewer pipes are being blamed for a rotten smell at the Manuel Lujan Sr. Building, which was built in 1974 and houses the state Taxation and Revenue Department as its main tenant.
Shanghai authorities are holding nine people in an investigation into the collapse of a nearly finished 13-story apartment building, the government said Monday after the latest in a string of accidents that have plagued the country's construction boom.
A fire department official says at least eight people have been killed in the collapse of a three-story building in the Nigerian capital.
A contractor clearing a natural gas line during water heater installation likely released a flammable cloud that ignited in a fatal blast at a North Carolina Slim Jim factory, federal investigators said Thursday.
Emergency tapes released Monday show workers dialed 911 in a frenzy after escaping an explosion that killed three workers at a Slim Jim processing plant, with one panicked woman telling dispatchers: "ConAgra just blew up!"
President Barack Obama says no country should try to impose a system of government on another nation.
Part of a vacant five-story building that had recently been cited collapsed in lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, leaving mounds of rubble and slightly injuring three people, officials said.
Washington state environmental regulators say they've finally found the source of pollution that has been fouling a creek near Vancouver Lake: the agency's own sewer pipes.
The lights atop the Empire State Building already change colors. Now the building itself is getting a permanent green makeover.
The New York Times Co. has sold most of its home office for $225 million, padding the newspaper publisher's financial cushion amid a sharp drop in revenue that has forced management to scrounge for more money.
Cologne's six-story city archive building groaned then collapsed in a pile of rubble Tuesday as people inside fled in panic. All managed to escape safely but police said three people were feared missing in other damaged buildings nearby.
The economic crisis has forced Harvard University to consider pausing a planned expansion in Boston.
As to the design of an eco-restorative settlement of your own or of like-minded beings, it is key to remove all the concepts of boundaries that you come with.
Design Plans for Midtown TowerRochester's Midtown Tower will be a place to live and work. We'll learn more about the vision and the design for the structure Monday Morning.
10,000 Apply for 90 Factory Jobs in Louisville"About 10,000 people applied over three days for 90 jobs."
Some U.S. Forces Focus on Civil Programs in Iraq " 'U.S. Forces will [help] the Iraqis in building infrastructure and developing essential services in order to improve their communities and achieve economic stabilization,' Maj. Gen. James P. Hunt said."
Building being moved by UW gets stuck Contractors tried to move Cunningham Hall across campus early this morning, but the building didn't make it. They were taking it up a hill next to Meany Hall, but the truck hauling the building didn't have enough power for the job and the building got stuck in place.
Crumbling building puts restaurant owner's, workers' lives on holdThe owner of Pisano's Pizza said Tuesday that he expected to be back in business shortly after Labor Day as the partially collapsed building next to his restaurant was cleaned up.
On September 13th Sunday a Building lift shaft had collapsed and killed 5 men falling 20 stories high. Another builder was injured, All 6 were being sent to hospital.
Building inspection rates could go upFor the first time in town history Seekonk could have its own building inspection fee schedule, which will come with a bump in rates to a few dozen local buildings if adopted without alteration.
Demolition In Turkey Goes Wrong and Building Falls Over Sideways and Onto Its RoofA plan to demolish a building in Cankiri, central Turkey went badly wrong when the 25-metre high structure rolled over onto its roof. More Articles
Futuristic London Bridge Sprouts Solar Powered Vertical FarmRecently Chetwood Architects unveiled a stunning proposal for a futuristic London Bridge that sprouts a towering vertical farm in the midst of the Thames river.
Iowa man accused of smearing feces on buildingA man faces criminal mischief charges after he allegedly defecated on a downtown Elgin sidewalk and smeared feces on the door of a building. Authorities said the building houses the Valley Community Coalition.
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Up on the RoofBut step out through a hatch onto the roof of the Vancouver Public Library at Library Square—nine stories above downtown—and you'll find yourself in a prairie, not an asphalt wasteland.
Tumbling tower of China: Amazing pictures of 13-storey block of flats that toppled overA newly built 13-storey residential building collapsed in Shanghai yesterday, killing one worker.
Buiding Collapse In Shanghai - great picturesAt around 5:30am on June 27, an unoccupied building still under construction at Lianhuanan Road in the Minxing district of Shanghai city toppled over. One worker was killed.
Review of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Building and Remodeling"Can you live in better comfort and health, support the environment and save money at the same time? well, it's not a daydream, but actually a doable challenge according to our book today on our Monday's green books series. And it all starts and actually ends at home!
Four-story building collapses in BrooklynA four-story residential building collapsed Sunday in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, and at least four people suffered minor injuries, according to the New York City Fire Department.
Citing job creation, Crist signs growth bill | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee DemocratFlorida guts growth management laws.
11 sites make new list of 'endangered historic places'Galveston site to be placed as one of eleven endangered historic sites after the hurricane hit.
Israeli settlers reject Obama call to halt buildingJewish settler leaders on Tuesday shrugged off U.S. President Barack Obama's call for Israel to halt settlement building in the occupied West Bank, saying Palestinians needed to "halt terror first".
Rubber bullets fly as ArcelorMittal workers storm AGMPolice fired rubber bullets Tuesday when ArcelorMittal employees stormed the venue of the global steel giant's annual general meeting in Luxembourg in protest over plans to cut jobs.
Builder of collapsed Cowboys facility had past issues, court records showCourt records show the company that built the collapsed Dallas Cowboys training facility also manufactured at least three other buildings that have fallen in heavy weather since 2002.
Bendable Concrete Heals Itself -- Just Add WaterIts not quite as advanced as Terminator technology. But a new concrete that can heal its own wounds may soon bring futuristic protection to bridges and roads.
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