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• Empire State Building to go green

  New York's iconic Empire State Building will go green in a model retrofit that will save approximately £3m a year on energy. As part of a major renovation costing US$500m, US$100m has been earmarked for greening the skyscraper immortalised in blockbuster... Posted Apr 08 2009, 10:14 AM by World Construction Filed under: sustainability, New York, Empire State Building, retrofit

• Buildings still going up in China, albeit a bit late

  While the rest of the world deletes the word 'skyscraper' from dictionaries, China is busy building big and tall buildings. Yingli Tower in Chongqing is the latest tower to commence construction and will be a 320m high office tower in the high... Posted Apr 02 2009, 08:29 AM by World Construction Filed under: under construction, China, Chongqing, Yingli Tower, Empire State Building