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Welcome to the heart of CityCenter. The ARIA Resort & Casino is an architectural masterpiece whose innovation and luxury transcend all languages and culture.
• 4,004 stunning guestrooms including 568 suites
• Viva ELVIS™ by Cirque du Soleil
• The Spa & Salon at ARIA - a unique full-service sanctuary offering a limitless menu of therapies and treatments
• 16 restaurants and 10 exhilarating bars and lounges
• 300,000 square feet of technologically advanced meeting and pre-function space
• Three sparkling pools with 50 cabanas; and Liquid, an adults-only pool
• US Green Building Council LEED Gold Certified
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials joined representatives from the US Green Building Council (USGBC) on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, to unveil a plaque honoring the Fulton Center as the first New York City subway hub to receive a LEED® rating for sustainability and design. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
Angela Formica, Yu Ping Lu, Monique Skovron,
Project Name: Logike,
Project Type: Restaurant earning LEED Platinum Certification,
Client: Chef Ferran Adriá,
Original Space: 319 Greenwich St, Tribeca, NYC
The design of Logike is based on the concept of deconstruction. By using the client’s cuisine for inspiration, as well as sustainable practices given by the LEED rating system, our restaurant offers experiences of both imagination and reality. It is designed to stimulate the human senses through food and the interior. Logike was able to achieve a LEED Platinum Certification.
Now-vanished brand of lemonade sold by Coke in the 1960's and 1970's..
One of my fonder childhood memories, it was stupidly replaced with the less-great tasting Sprite in the early 1980's.
This can dates from the late 1960's.
The Oregon Department of Transportation's headquarters building in Salem has received the LEED "Platinum" rating – the highest level – for being an environmentally-responsible and sustainable facility. The building, located on the Capitol Mall, was originally finished in 1951; few updates were made over the years, and in 2010, the building closed for a nearly two-year rehabilitation. The refurbished, historic facility re-opened in August 2012 – offering a healthier atmosphere for employees and visitors and a friendlier impact on the environment.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. --This $2.6 million Community Emergency Services Station at Fort Bragg, N.C., is the first LEED Platinum facility of its type in the Army. LEED refers to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system, which involves the use of environmentally sustainable building and design practices. At 8,300 square-feet, the facility includes mechanisms that save 35 percent more energy than a typical building of its kind. Features include geothermal heat pumps, a solar hot water heating system, a rainwater collection system for washing fire engines and flushing toilets, use of local suppliers, and energy efficient fixtures and lighting. The project was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District in March 2011 and received a LEED Platinum certification (the highest level) in 2012 from the Green Building Certification Institute. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
Angela Formica, Yu Ping Lu, Monique Skovron,
Project Name: Logike,
Project Type: Restaurant earning LEED Platinum Certification,
Client: Chef Ferran Adriá,
Original Space: 319 Greenwich St, Tribeca, NYC
The design of Logike is based on the concept of deconstruction. By using the client’s cuisine for inspiration, as well as sustainable practices given by the LEED rating system, our restaurant offers experiences of both imagination and reality. It is designed to stimulate the human senses through food and the interior. Logike was able to achieve a LEED Platinum Certification.
Gold and quartz from the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA. (SDSMT 5080, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Museum of Geology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA)
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 5500 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
Elements are fundamental substances of matter - matter that is composed of the same types of atoms. At present, 118 elements are known. Of these, 98 occur naturally on Earth (hydrogen to californium). Most of these occur in rocks & minerals, although some occur in very small, trace amounts. Only some elements occur in their native elemental state as minerals.
To find a native element in nature, it must be relatively non-reactive and there must be some concentration process. Metallic, semimetallic (metalloid), and nonmetallic elements are known in their native state as minerals.
Gold (Au) is the most prestigious metal known, but it's not the most valuable. Gold is the only metal that has a deep, rich, metallic yellow color. Almost all other metals are silvery-colored. Gold is very rare in crustal rocks - it averages about 5 ppb (parts per billion). Where gold has been concentrated, it occurs as wires, dendritic crystals, twisted sheets, octahedral crystals, and variably-shaped nuggets. It most commonly occurs in hydrothermal quartz veins, disseminated in some contact- & hydrothermal-metamorphic rocks, and in placer deposits. Placers are concentrations of heavy minerals in stream gravels or in cracks on bedrock-floored streams. Gold has a high specific gravity (about 19), so it easily accumulates in placer deposits. Its high density allows prospectors to readily collect placer gold by panning.
In addition to its high density, gold has a high melting point (over 1000º C). Gold is also relatively soft - about 2.5 to 3 on the Mohs Hardness Scale. The use of pure gold or high-purity gold in jewelry is not desirable as it easily gets scratched. The addition of other metals to gold to increase the hardness also alters the unique color of gold. Gold jewelry made & sold in America doesn’t have the gorgeous rich color of high-purity gold.
The largest gold mine in the Americas was the long-lived Homestake Mine in the town of Lead (pronounced “Leed”), South Dakota, USA. Located in the Lead Window of the northern Black Hills Uplift in western South Dakota, the Homestake Mine produced about 40 million ounces of gold. The gold at Homestake is almost exclusively confined to the Homestake Formation, a Paleoproterozoic (~1.9-2.0 billion years) sedimentary unit that originally consisted of interbedded Mg-rich siderite iron formation and marlstones.
The Homestake Formation has been strongly deformed & multiply metamorphosed, and many of the original rocks were converted to greenschists (cummingtonite schists). The gold has been interpreted as having been originally deposited with the iron formation sediments by seafloor volcanogenic exahalative processes. Slight metamorphic gold mobilization and tight structural folding has resulted in the formation of auriferous greenschist pods along fold axes.
Locality: Main Ledge, 3050 Level, Homestake Mine, Lead, northern Black Hills, western South Dakota, USA
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Photo gallery of gold:
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) accepts one of the highest environmental designations in the world for both its headquarters buildings in Washington DC from President of the Green Building Certification Institute Peter Templeton (R). This presentation comes on the eve of the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change. The IMF is the first international financial organization and the first United Nations affiliated organization to be awarded LEED Gold for Existing Buildings established by the U.S. Green Building Council.
During the award ceremony, Strauss-Kahn commented "In this spirit, international institutions like the IMF need to play their part in contributing to a solution."
December 4, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
IMF Staff Photograph
Recycled concrete becomes a building material during construction of a 'green' barracks on Fort Eustis, Va. All new construction in the Department of Defense must qualify for Silver certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standard. U.S. Army Environmental Command photo by Neal Snyder (neal.snyder@us.army.mil)
Cast Style Aluminum Plaque. Raised Brushed Aluminum lettering and logo. Recessed Natural Aluminum Background.
Blind Studs on back for mounting.
LEED PLATINUM CERTIFICATION SHOWN - We offer ALL levels of LEED Certification.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. --This $2.6 million Community Emergency Services Station at Fort Bragg, N.C., is the first LEED Platinum facility of its type in the Army. LEED refers to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system, which involves the use of environmentally sustainable building and design practices. At 8,300 square-feet, the facility includes mechanisms that save 35 percent more energy than a typical building of its kind. Features include geothermal heat pumps, a solar hot water heating system, a rainwater collection system for washing fire engines and flushing toilets, use of local suppliers, and energy efficient fixtures and lighting. The project was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District in March 2011 and received a LEED Platinum certification (the highest level) in 2012 from the Green Building Certification Institute. Courtesy photo.