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While there was no absolute need to renovate the lounge, the management felt that a change was needed after 15 years, manager Gerard T. Smith said last week. "There'll be a new hardwood floor, a new bar," Smith said. "Things will be juxta-posted more...
...building's structure. But that too is beginning to change under pressure from architects and their clients. Manufacturers have begun to gear up their environmentally sensitive product lines, and several independent groups have compiled lists of green materials. The Rainforest Alliance, for example, has researched the tropical hardwood trade (estimated at $7 billion a year) and come up with a list of woods, like rubberwood, grown on Malaysian plantations, whose harvest does little damage to the rain forest...
...addition, new stairways and hardwood floors will be installed and workers will improve the building'splumbing, heating, wiring, plaster and paint, hesaid...
...floors in my Weld Hall suite were made of cold linoleum. But a University official who oversees the construction project recently told me that all along, beautiful hardwood floors lay beneath the tiles. As part of the tiles away, leaving wood for the dorm's future residents...
...destruction of 20 hectares (50 acres) of forest on Nairobi's outskirts so that roses could be grown for export. Maathai countered official claims that the site contained no indigenous trees with a photograph of herself in the cleared forest, clinging to the stump of a recently felled giant hardwood...