by Paul Kenney | Oct 30, 2014 | Industry News
Company Sells Solar Door-to-Door LEHI, Utah—An unusual strategy to sell solar panel systems has proved to be a path to riches for at one startup. In 2011, Vivint, an alarm company based in Utah, decided to get into the solar business. Now its subsidiary, Vivint Solar,...
by Paul Kenney | Oct 30, 2014 | Industry News
New Technology to Help Preserve Old Sistine Chapel Masterpiece VATICAN CITY—The Sistine Chapel receives six million visitors a year, with as many as 20,000 in a day. This has necessitated a “radical intervention” to allow for air circulation, dust...
by Paul Kenney | Oct 30, 2014 | Industry News
Google Offers Glimpse Inside Its High-Tech Data Centers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google is publicly sharing photos that display its massive and colorful data centers around the world. The online gallery includes its Council Bluffs, Iowa, data center, which has more than...
by Paul Kenney | Oct 26, 2014 | Industry News
NYC Luxury High-Rise Now Tallest Residential Building in Western Hemisphere NEW YORK—A condominium tower at 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan topped off this month to become the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. Standing at 1,396 ft (426 m), 432 Park...
by Paul Kenney | Oct 23, 2014 | Industry News
Drones Spot Dubai Construction Site Violations DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Drones are being used to monitor construction site violations in Dubai. The Emirate’s Ministry of Labor introduced the technology to help inspectors record when sites are breaking laws,...
