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A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast
Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean?
Or stopped to consider why you don't see metal fire escapes on new buildings?
Or pondered the story behind those dancing inflatable figures in car dealerships?
99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming...
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The purpose of the Colorado Gap Analysis Report is twofold: 1) document and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the state's existing energy code adoption and implementation infrastructure and policies; 2) recommend potential actions state agencies, local jurisdictions, and other stakeholders can take to achieve 100 percent compliance with the model energy codes.
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The Strategic Compliance Plan is the final phase of the Compliance Planning Assistance (CPA) program, a collaborative effort by the Building Codes Assistance Project (BCAP), the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), and the Governors Energy Office (GEO), beginning in fall 2010. The overarching goal of the project is to document and analyze Colorados existing energy codes infrastructure in order to address barriers to widespread energy code...
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Nuclear emergency planning and management profoundly depend on computer-aided decision support tools that gather and analyze data on radioactive emissions, meteorology, demography, geography, etc., and provide decision support for prevention/mitigation, response, and recovery. The discussion primarily focuses on issues related to the behavioral and decision-making processes of the various players in the evacuation system, logistics, the generation...