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Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte
To help developers, Gensler has devised a formula in which 30 percent of the rating is based on form, such as the building’s shape and how readily it could be reconfigured, while another 30 percent depends upon floor-plate factors such as window-to-core distance, with parking and loading access accounting for 20 percent. The envelope’s window-to-wall ratio and ease of window replacement (10 percent) and “site context,” including walkability, transit access, and unobstructed views (10 percent), also figure in the verdict.
How to Make Office-to-Residential Conversions Work - Urban Land Magazine
urbanland.uli.org
When the next full-margin rupture happens, that region will suffer the worst natural disaster in the history of North America, outside of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which killed upward of a hundred thousand people. By comparison, roughly three thousand people died in San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake. Almost two thousand died in Hurricane Katrina. Almost three hundred died in Hurricane Sandy.
The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest
newyorker.com
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