Shade-Structure Material

After 18 years of business in Australia, Polyfab recently opened a sales and warehousing center in Southern California. The company provides fabric for tension-membrane structures that can help buildings save energy by minimizing heat gain. The company’s products meet fire standards, and installations are completed by independent fabricators.

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Old Colony High School Gets Green Makeover

Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School (OCRVT) is going green. In a major effort to reduce its energy output, the school is getting a makeover in the form of building upgrades that will reduce Old Colony’s utility usage by 50 percent per year. A kick-off celebration on February 2 marked the launch of the $3 million energy efficiency upgrade project. The event – which took place at …

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Membrane Technology


GREENVILLE, S.C. — When Redemption World Outreach Center embarked on a plan to build an athletic center that would serve the congregation and surrounding community, they found a cost-effective solution with stressed structure-membrane technology.
 
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Elementary School Marks First LEED Campus in Alaska

WASILLA, Alaska — An elementary school in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in south-central Alaska is the state’s first LEED-certified school.
 
Fred and Sara Machetanz Elementary School was designed and built under recently adopted district policies that require all new construction of public facilities to achieve LEED certification.

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Study: Students Struggle to Pay for College

LOS ANGELES — A new study revealed that community college students are working an average of 23 hours per week to cover college costs, a work schedule that may be affecting academic performance.
 
According to the report by the California Student Public Interest Research Group titled “Working Too Hard to Make the Grade,” students could graduate faster and with better grades if they spent less time at their jobs and more time in the classroom.
 
Twenty-four percent of community college students who intend to either

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