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Renderings are full-color, photorealistic computer drawings. They’re useful in capital campaigns, and they allow visualization of a building before it’s built. As a consequence, renderings can also be useful in the design process, for they can be used to make decisions in three dimensions. The reign of hand-drawn renderings is over; these days most emerge [...]

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(This article was written by Diana Butler Bass, and originally appeared at beliefnet.) President Obama has picked Elena Kagan, former dean of Harvard Law School and Solicitor General, to fill the next vacancy on the Supreme Court.  Much will be said of Ms. Kagan over the coming weeks–praise and criticism of all sorts.  But little will be [...]

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Contractors and subcontractors have mostly finished projects they started before the crash, and the early stages of the recovery are not yet generating much new work. Consequently construction costs are now rock-bottom; when demand goes down, so do prices. As the recovery picks up steam, construction costs will gradually rise, along with interest rates. At [...]

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