buildings
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Who Needs A Weatherman? These Buildings Tell You The Forecast
It has never been easier to get updates on the weather. If you have a smartphone, a few taps will pull up forecasts quicker than you can say “colder than a witch’s tit” three times fast. Technology! But there’s a much older, low-tech option for figuring out whether to bust out the umbrella, and it’s…
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Good Night, London
It’s a little weird to say this, but I’ve mostly ignored London as a city to visit. Even though it’s been years since I’ve last been and even though I enjoyed my time there, I never think about it when I get bitten by the travel bug. And I don’t have a legitimate reason why…
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Future Lifts Will Use Maglev To Go Up, Down — And Sideways
Is only going up in the lift getting you down? Not for much longer: ThyssenKrupp, the German steel and engineering company, has announced that it’s building the next generation of lifts that will use magnetic levitation to travel up, down and side-to-side at speed in the buildings of the future.
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How The Bugs In Our Buildings Could Actually Make Us Healthier
University of Oregon researchers Jessica Green and G Z ‘Charlie’ Brown call it the Pickle Box. This former walk-in storage unit for pickles, remodelled into an enclosed climate chamber, is helping scientists understand how people shed their own ‘microbial cloud’ in a built environment.