Through the glass cylinder: the RWE Tower is an elegant glass cylinder on the Essen skyline. With its natural ventilation, can it be called an ecological high-rise?

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Ingenhoven Overdiek Kahlen und Partner's RWE Tower in Essen has been completed. The building features natural ventilation via a double-skinned facade, and there is a sense of openness, particularly at the lower levels. The circular corridor supplies and returns air from ducts, when windows cannot be opened, and underfloor perimeter convectors provide the heating, whilst cooling is provided by chilled ceiling panels.

Design and construction, High rise buildings, Tall buildings

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Electronic whole-building models

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The construction industry will use Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to form a model of a building in future. The electronic model will be important to design, usage and inception. The Atlas project is working on whole projects in which different systems and people can be integrated. The Mernet project aims to allow electronic trading between suppliers and builders' merchants.

Other Communications Software Pkgs, Planning, Technology application, Electronic data interchange, EDI (Electronic data interchange)

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Focus for construction research: CRISP - the new Construction Research and Innovation Strategy Panel - aims to prioritise research industry-wide

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There appears to be a change in favour of more spending on research, and the creation of the Construction Research and Innovation Strategy Panel (CRISP) aims to bring the main industry liaison bodies together. It hopes to help develop research strategies, channel existing research funds to defined priorities, reduce research duplication and clearly identify clients' demands.

Research

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