Totally absorbing

Article Abstract:

Ove Arup and Partners Associate Chris Twinn has developed a new humidity control system. The system was devised to be incorporated into a new building constructed to house documents which are 800 years old. The new Jersey Archive Centre, St Helier, Jersey, cost 3.5 million pounds sterling and was designed by Architects MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and BDK Associates. Twinn's new humidity control system does not use air conditioning therefore it will be much cheaper to run.

Innovations, Officials and employees, Buildings and facilities, Archives, Ove Arup and Partnership Ltd., Industrial designers, Jersey, Twinn, Chris

---

Power pack

Article Abstract:

The German firm Alwitra has developed an innovative roofing product called Evalon-Solar which has also been made available in the UK. The roofing material contains photovoltaic cells which are bonded to the membrane. The cells are made by United Solar Systems. The single-ply membrane produces electricity by solar power and is also waterproof. The material has been used on an office building in Jena-Lobeda, Germany where its performance is being closely observed.

Product introduction, Roofing industry, Building materials, Alwitra

---

200-mile-high club

Article Abstract:

A description of an orbiting hotel which has been planned by Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo for 2017 is presented. Issues concerning the design, construction and sponsorship of the space hotel are discussed.

Management, Hotels and motels, Large space structures (Astronautics), Large space structures, Wimberly Allison Tong and Goo

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Surgical scars. Taking over the asylum. Hammer beam horror
• Abstracts: Virtual Basingstoke. Tracker. What's a megabyte again?
• Abstracts: Do the public really have a say? Architects' fees survey 2000. 'Why waste half your life working in all that noise and dust? It's just not worth it.'
• Abstracts: The inflatable cafe. Uphill struggle: The centrepiece of a 57 million pounds sterling centre in Milton Keynes is a 170 m long indoor ski slope with real snow

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.