The simplicity of operation of a winding arm machine always ensures the fastest possible operating of the gate. The FAST operator will automate most lightweight gates up to 2.3m each leaf. The FAST can be operated by all the standard CAME accessories e.g. remote controls, push buttons, keypads etc. In the eventuality of a power cut the FAST has a lever operated manual release mechanism which is situated on the motor casing.

The FAST articulated arm gate operator is designed to automate small gates that are hung from any type of pillars or posts. The new FAST kits are the easiest and quickest to install within the entire CAME range. The FAST motor comes complete with an inbuilt control panel which makes the installation as simple as any machine available in the world.

Yalick Farms, being developed on 56 acres that once produced crops sold at a stand on the other side of Memorial Highway, is the first project of its kind in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Mostly residential, the “luxury condominium village,” as one partner described it, will include a clubhouse, an Olympic-size swimming pool, tennis courts and small shops.

Lead developer J. Naparlo said Yalick Farms would not be considered unusual in the Williamsburg, Va. area, where the Plymouth native now lives.

“There are projects like this down here,” he said recently; developments that include small shops with housing above or nearby.

Partner Perry Dunford, who also is the general contractor, said the first of a planned 112 townhouses will be ready for sale within weeks. A sales office will be set up in the clubhouse and initially they will be marketed directly by the developers.

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AUGUSTA — Community leaders and the public oohed and aahed over a three-dimensional model of a Lithgow Library that could be.

Featuring three gables along State Street and a rear facade that mirrors the front entrance, the model and interior pictures were the highlights of a public display of renovation plans presented Thursday at the city-owned library.

“It sort of replicates the dimensions and size of the original building so it doesn’t overwhelm it,” said Elizabeth Pohl, library director.
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The story of Laurentian University’s Living with Lakes Centre will be the story of Greater Sudbury’s celebrated re-greening efforts.

The future home of Laurentian’s Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit is one of many highly energy efficient LEED buildings taking shape on the Sudbury campus.

When finished sometime in 2009, the $12-million project will be only the second LEED platinum building in Canada.

Rainwater splashing against the two-story research building’s white pine exterior will be treated by a lime coating applied to the wood before collecting into a bio-swale ditch of gravel and plants where impurities are filtered out. It then drains into a specially-constructed wetland.
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Autodesk, Inc. has sold more than 200,000 seats of its Revit software platform for building information modeling (BIM), representing a 100% increase in seats over the past year.

The dramatic growth in adoption of the Revit BIM platform stems from the increasing pressure faced by architects, designers, and engineers to raise productivity and improve coordination across the design team.
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Home Design Studio 11.0, a new consumer-level 3-D architecture program, is aimed at people who want to remodel a room, design a home, or landscape a yard.

Punch Software, well known for consumer-level design software for the PC, has created Home Design Studio for the Mac from the ground up, and the Mac version has benefited from the company’s experience on the Windows platform. The interface is good enough to get you up and designing right out of the box.
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Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) announced today updates to its portfolio of academic software solutions, which promote project-based learning and provide worldwide access to the same cutting-edge, 3D design tools used by industry leading professionals. The innovative design curriculum included in Autodesk’s academic software has been developed for educators by educators, and provides the necessary tools to inspire and support tomorrow’s generation of future engineers, architects and designers.
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SAP AG has said that members of the Industry Value Network (IVN) for banks, which brings together SAP, banks and non-banks to collaboratively develop solutions for the banking industry have formed an expanded definition group to co-innovate and create global standards for enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (enterprise SOA). The expansion of the community enables the members to leverage the results from the IVN for their custom projects as well as to directly influence the development of software solutions for the banking industry. As part of expanding the scope of its charter, the community has opened its membership to include additional banks and non-banks, including software providers, service providers and auditors. With this announcement, the members of the community and SAP continue to deliver on their mission to provide a common innovation backbone for the banking industry, be it global retail banks, private banks or corporate banks. Read more…

BeLight Software today released Live Interior 3D, an application enabling users to design building interiors such as houses and offices. Live Interior 3D includes a library of more than 1,000 objects that includes brand name content, as well as Google 3D Warehouse integration and the ability to import Google SketchUp objects. The software offers a Virtual Reality Walkthrough mode, and comes with over 50 templates. Users can view projects in 2D or 3D with realistic light/shadow rendering, and the application can import 3DStudio or Ogre XML objects. Live Interior 3D can export 2D plans in PDF, JPEG, TIFF, or PNG formats, or export 3D views in JPEG, TIFF, or PNG formats. The new software is priced from $80, and requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

Promising an iconic structure that would enhance Chicago’s reputation as an architectural mecca, architect Santiago Calatrava on Monday unveiled an animated 360-degree view of a proposed downtown skyscraper that would be the nation’s tallest building.

Gasps echoed through a standing-room audience at a meeting of the Grant Park Advisory Council as a swooping computer-generated perspective showed the proposed Chicago Spire from nearly every exterior angle. The video offered the most lifelike view yet of the 150-story condominium tower that would be built in the Streeterville neighborhood. It has undergone several major design changes since being announced almost two years ago. Read more…