Monday, March 22, 2010

Calgary Condo Fire

The top storey of the large Calgary Condo Fire building was destroyed, and burning roof debris was raining down in front of firefighters while huge crowds were standing across street videoing on cell phones. Most building occupants were not home, EMS officials said, presumed to be at work. Others ran to safety on their own accord or were led to safety.

Seventeen people were assessed for smoke inhalation but there were no injuries to residents or firefighters. Several hundred people left homeless by a massive fire in southeast Calgary are now looking for new homes.

The building is uninhabitable in its current form, the acting director of the Calgary Emergency Management Agency. Canvas, the condo developer, is working with the church to get donations to fire victims. About 300 people live in the complex.

By mid-afternoon, firefighters were turning their efforts to finding trapped pets. The top storey of the large condo building was destroyed, and burning roof debris was raining down in front of firefighters while huge crowds were standing across street videoing on cell phones.

Witnesses describe a dramatic scene at the fire, where Macleod Trail drivers can see the flames and towering plumes of black smoke. Resident Laura Clark, 26, came home for lunch when she heard the fire alarm go off.

We should care our properties, Real estate and our furniture, because one thing can burn our all house and official materials.

Friday, March 12, 2010

LEED Building Studies on Kroon Real estate



Every time I read on Kroon real estate devaluation I get the opposite idea why Kroon’s Real Estate revaluation isn’t discussed, Alar taming, and big owner of currency exchange.

If currency rates change then people with stronger currency can buy more for their money. Revaluation increases country’s reliability, just like devaluation decreases it. Revaluation of Real Estate of Kroon would send a signal to the world that Kroon real estates are securer than euro that we don’t have to join euro to keep the money stable.

At times, though, Des Bouvrie’s fame and achievement outpaced his financial success. An operator working at Des Bouvrie’s furniture shop could hardly believe her boss had been arrested. Designed by Hopkins Architects, a British firm with a long history in the green residential building movement, the new home of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is, on almost all counts, a striking success. For a green premium unofficially estimated at about 5.7 percent of construction cost, the design team of Kroon real estate managed to reduce projected energy use and emissions by 61 percent below the levels for a comparable building of.

A solar photovoltaic array and geothermal wells will supply much of the remaining energy load. We got damned close to carbon neutral, boasted a construction manager who initially scoffed at the whole idea of green design. The Departments of Energy and Defense are currently researching high-performance and net zero plus buildings, which would reduce demand by 70 percent and use renewable energy to supply the balance. Like Kroon Hall, most attempts at sustainable development now focus on the U.S. Green Building Council’s voluntary certification process, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). LEED is not just too narrow, but also undervalues energy performance.

LEED gold and platinum buildings in the study had been designed to be about 37 percent more energy efficient than conventional buildings of the same type, according to the study by the New Building Institute. Boston has implemented a green building code requiring buildings over 50,000 square feet to meet the standards for LEED certification. Portland, Oregon, has developed an ambitious high performance building program but can’t go beyond state building codes to make it happen. To address weaknesses in LEED, the buildings would also have to reduce energy use by 35 percent below comparable conventional buildings to qualify for rebates. Building code changes focused on energy are likely to become more widespread because of a residential green building standard approved early this year by the International Code Council, for adoption by state and local governments.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

How to Present a Good real estate by Piccini

Piccini has 23 years of experience in corporate real estate. Prior to joining NYIDTZ, he served as senior vice president with CB Richard Ellis. Piccini Real Estate has a good working experience in real estate firms and they are providing good services to investors and clients.

Today’s the real estate buyers tend to be from Holland, Germany, Switzerland and other European countries. There are also increasing numbers of buyers from Russia, China, India, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

Other closing costs are based on the declared the real estate and properties purchase price. These include notary fees (1 to 1.5 percent) and real estate agent commissions, typically 6 percent, shared between the buyer and the seller.

A good Property Details:

The French doors leading into the living room can be secured with tall shutters; the kitchen also has French doors leading outside. An arched stone doorway connects the living and dining rooms, and the floors throughout the house are of terra cotta tile. The kitchen has a typical Tuscan sloped timber ceiling, and arched windows overlook cypress trees and rolling hills. There is one full bath off the living room; the other, upstairs, has decorative tile. All three bedrooms are upstairs. The ground floor has a completely separate two-bedroom apartment that could be reintegrated. Currently, the house is used as a vacation rental.

There is a wooden deck beside the swimming pool, and the grounds are planted with herbs and olive trees. Grain fields around the house turn green in the spring and gold in the summer. The nearest beach, Cecina, is on the Mediterranean coast about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away.

More than half of the buyers of vacation homes in Tuscany are foreign. The majority used to come from the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia. Although Australians are still buying here, economic woes have substantially reduced the number of American and British buyers.