As sustainable design concepts increasingly infiltrate the lucrative residential design and construction market, homeowners looking for reliable information on local architects and contractors with knowledge of the field can encounter a frustrating process.
The PDF file format continues its dominance of the portable file market with the release of an updated version of Adobe’s Acrobat, now in version 8, and the launch of a reconstituted edition of the Internet conferencing software Breeze, now called Adobe Acrobat Connect.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions trading, a market-based strategy for mitigating climate change, has been steadily growing over the past few years, and furnishing and building-product companies are among the industries adopting the practice.
Last month’s declaration by a United Nations panel that global warming is “unequivocal,” and that fossil fuel use is “very likely” to blame, should intensify discussion of the already hot topic.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions trading, a market-based strategy for mitigating climate change, has been steadily growing over the past few years, and furnishing and building-product companies are among the industries adopting the practice. Image courtesy Haworth. U.S. furniture systems manufacturer Haworth announced late last year that its Zody task chair had earned “Planet Positive” certification. The designation is the brainchild of Guy Battle, the London-based environmental and building engineer. He has been working with Haworth since before the chair’s release in 2005 to examine procurement and manufacturing processes with the aim of reducing and managing the CO2 emissions associated with
The PDF file format continues its dominance of the portable file market with the release of an updated version of Adobe’s Acrobat, now in version 8, and the launch of a reconstituted edition of the Internet conferencing software Breeze, now called Adobe Acrobat Connect. Adobe Acrobat Connect’s user interface is intuitive and straightforward. Acrobat 8 Professional fine-tunes many of the software’s standard features, adding the ability to create a single PDF out of multiple files, as well as streamlining the software’s look. Additionally, you can add comments to files in a shared review setup, when files are located on shared