828 meters above ground on top of Burj Khalifa, Mr. Ahmad Abdelrazaq who has the distinction of being a key member of the design team (at SOM), the construction team (Samsung Corp.), as well as the full-scale monitoring of tower performance team (Notre Dame).
Although it might sound like something from a science fiction novel, scientists at the University of Washington are working on solar powered contact lenses with transparent LEDs embedded onto the lens. This technology could be applied in countless ways, from health monitoring to text translation right in front of the wearer's eyes."
As a skyscraper, Comcast’s top—a squared off obelisk—doesn’t announce any new directions in design, nor suggest that it will be as noticeable once taller buildings (such as the projected 1,500-foot-high American Commerce Center by Kohn Pedersen Fox) crowd around it. But like Raymond Hood’s RCA Tower (1933) at Rockefeller Center in New York, what it lacks in jazz at the top, it delivers at the bottom in a multilevel mix of public spaces, rail connections and concourses, shops, and cafés."
"Congratulations to ASCE's 2010 class of Distinguished Members, 13 leaders of the civil engineering community recognized for their eminence, and chosen by the Society's Board of Direction for an honor second only to becoming ASCE President. Each has proven worthy of displaying the "Dist.M.ASCE" credential:
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The turbines are designed to contribute 8% of the 43-storey Strata building’s total energy consumption when the 408-apartment block at Elephant & Castle is completed in May.
The tower, nicknamed the Electric Razor by locals, has become a major presence in the capital, visible from distant areas such as Hyde Park.
The turbines, which will be fully operational by April, have 15 blades in total, each with a 9m-diameter rotor plane."
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