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Top 3 New York Interior Design Projects Boca do Lobo THE INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT OF A NEW YORK-BASED JEWELLERY DESIGNER The designer behind the project, Jessica Gersten, wanted to create a strong sense of earthiness and connection to nature with natural elements of metal and stone, contrasted with gold and silver, which is a reflection of the client’s identity. The result is a luxury home grounded in earth while inspiring an elegant “Zen” sensibility. INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT BY ARTHUR DUNMAN By the hands of Arthur Dunman for Jed Johnson Studio, this project is the true materialization of the client’s wishes, creating the most...

Boise's Orange Bag Plastics Could Be Coming To A Construction Project Near You Frankie Barnhill / Boise State Public Radio Since 2018, many Boise residents have dutifully filled special orange bags each month with hard-to-recycle plastics. Now, after months of waiting, those bags won’t be going back to Salt Lake-based Renewlogy as expected. The Hefty Energy Bag Program had worked to send Boise’s plastics to Renewlogy to be converted back into fuel, a process called pyrolysis, but the company was only able to break down the bags for a short time. Its equipment needed upgrades to handle the diversity of...

Construction set to begin this month on Oregon State’s wave energy testing facility CORVALLIS, Ore. – After nearly a decade of work to obtain regulatory approval, Oregon State University is set to begin construction this month on a wave energy testing facility to be located about seven miles off the coast near Newport. PacWave South will be the first commercial-scale, utility grid-connected wave energy test site in the United States. The approximately $80 million facility will offer wave energy developers the opportunity to try different technologies for harnessing the power of ocean waves and transmitting that energy to the local...

Construction Scaffolding Crashes Down on Broadway Photo by Cecilia Barberot. A large section of scaffolding at a construction site on Broadway and 85th Street came down on Thursday morning, though it appears to have been fully caught by the sidewalk shed below. FDNY got a call about an “unstable facade” at 11:20 a.m. at 2330 Broadway, a spokesman said. Police said no one was injured in the incident. The site is expected to be a new senior living residence development. Update: The Department of Buildings told us the issue was with a “cocoon system” meant to safeguard the edge of...

An Innovative Staffing Company Helps An Overlooked Labor Pool Fill Construction Needs MaineWorks links people who face barriers to employment with construction companies that need ... [+] Joanne Arnold Margo Walsh knows the power of connections. She saw it for years in her work as a recruiter for a New York investment firm, a competitive field that had her visiting Ivy League schools and helping students envision their professional success. Now, she sees it as the leader of MaineWorks, an innovative staffing agency located in Portland, Maine. MaineWorks links people in recovery from substance abuse and reentry from jail or...