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Industry partners use ORNL software to trim carbon footprint of buildings Media contact: S. Heather Duncan, duncansh@ornl.gov, 865.341.2157 Two years after the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided a model of nearly every building in America, commercial partners are using the tool for tasks ranging from designing energy-efficient buildings and cities to linking energy efficiency to real estate value and risk. International companies like Google and SmithGroup are sharing the benefits by making the resulting data publicly available. Since the buildings sector accounts for 40% of American energy consumption, increasing its efficiency is vital to national decarbonization...

For sale at $35 million, Steven Bochco’s home was previously owned by Sylvester Stallone.    Jennifer Aniston, Mark Wahlberg & Miley Cyrus Jennifer Aniston, Mark Wahlberg & Miley Cyrus made real estate news in September. And Ben Affleck got lucky again. Top 10 Celebrity Real Estate News is featured at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com. Select photos with listing agent permission available at: http://bit.ly/toptenmedia. September’s Top 10 Celebrity Real Estate News “Mark Wahlberg Bets Big On Las Vegas” Mark Wahlberg is on his way to Sin City. After putting his LA Beverly Park home on the market for $87.5 million, Mark has purchased a...

The Trends In Construction Worth Keeping An Eye On Any business or contractor in the construction world would do well to keep an eye on the trends that have been more and more traction as of late. Your ability to watch and adapt to the trends can be what helps you get the contracts that your competitors don’t, and allows you to prepare the skills and resources that the future market is going to need.  The increasing green construction sector It’s a sector that has been steadily growing for some time now but, as the public awareness of climate issues...

poraSpheres® – The first Hollow Glass Spheres (HGS) from post-consumer recycled glass   Picture 2: Comparison: poraSpheres® (schematic) and Poraver® grain cut (PresseBox) (Schlüsselfeld, 09/06/2022) The world of lightweight fillers gets its latest addition. As part of the Poraver® family by Dennert Poraver GmbH, the worldwide number one producer for expanded glass granules, a new hollow glass sphere is released: poraSpheres®. The production of poraSpheres® starts October 2022 at the new production site in Schlüsselfeld, Germany (picture 1). The new plant is able to produce more than 30,000 m³/year of poraSpheres® in the first stage and is designed to be...

Longstanding PASCHAL customer invests in LOGO.pro (PresseBox) (Steinach) With the purchase of the LOGO.pro wall formwork with one-sided anchor technology, new construction projects will be implemented quickly and cost-effectively. In the first quarter of 2021, the first LOGO.pro wall formwork was sold to one of its regular customers, the construction company Josef Frauenknecht GmbH, via PASCHAL’s trading partner Mack GmbH in Burgheim. Mack GmbH was supported in this regard by PASCHAL consultant Herbert Bliemetsrieder, who has been assisting Josef Frauenknecht GmbH for many years. "We are delighted that the Frauenknecht company continues to trust in our cooperation and that the...