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    Just saw a commercial on tv about this while watching Chopped on Food Network.
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    I rode by there on my way to the Porsche dealership last Saturday, it was crowded.
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    http://www.lovethyneighbor-inc.org Making a difference in your neighbor's life starts with YOU! TH LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, INC. is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization in Houston, Texas that provides housing for individuals and families who cannot otherwise obtain housing. Veterans and Non-Veterans that are homeless are all welcome. We will provide permanent housing to those who have been released from hospitals. Transportation will be available to those who have no current access to housing, those who need dialysis, and those who need to travel to and from the hospital or doctor. We will function as a charity to such tenants.
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    Rice University awarded grant for 'mass timber' building on campus Rice University has won a federal grant to help advance its plans to develop a building using "mass timber," a type of engineered wood touted as being more environmentally friendly than concrete or other materials. The $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is portion of $1 million in funds designated to support the construction of mass timber projects on college campuses across the country. Mass timber refers to the use of engineered wood products as the structural components in a building. Small pieces of wood are laminated and compressed to create large, solid panels that can serve as load-bearing beams, panels and posts. "A thriving mass timber market helps maintain forest health and resiliency, supports employment opportunities in rural communities and advances sustainability of the built environment," according to a Department of Agriculture announcement. The program is a partnership with the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. Recent advances in engineering have made mass timber a more viable method of constructing taller buildings. In January, the International Building Code, on which many city building codes are based, doubled the allowed height of a wooden building to 18 stories. Houston-based Hines has been on the forefront of the movement. It has a line of wooden office buildings called T3, short for timber, transit and technology. Rice's proposal is for a five-story, 50,000-square-foot student housing building on its campus. Mass timber buildings can replace concrete construction, which generates carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, during manufacturing, according to an announcement from Rice, which has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2038. Rice's architecture school also provides instruction on mass timber. "This parallels our architectural research, so that's one of the rationales for us wanting to build with timber," Mark Ditman, Rice's associate vice president for housing and dining, said in the announcement. "We're teaching this, so we should be willing to do it." The federal grants have been awarded to schools planning a variety of building projects, including a basketball arena, an arts and education complex with a recital hall and theater, a museum and classroom buildings. The Forest Service received 16 proposals. The 10 selected are at universities in Arkansas, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Texas and Washington. Texas schools San Jacinto College and Stephen F. Austin University also received funds. The new building at Rice would replace the existing 120-bed wing of Hanszen College. Construction is pending approval by Rice's Board of Trustees and its Buildings and Grounds subcommittee. Rice Architecture professors Jesús Vassallo and Albert Pope, whose model of a timber skyscraper for Detroit was accepted to the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2016, are providing expertise for the project. https://www.chron.com/business/real-estate/article/Rice-University-awarded-grant-for-mass-timber-14411379.php#taboola-1
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    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2021/future-houston-designs/
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    I don't know about current tower cranes but the old ones I operated didn't have that feature. Current models of RT cranes do have an option that the operator can set to stop you from booming down too much or from swinging in a certain part of a turn. I'm guessing that modern tower cranes probably do now though. So many things on cranes have computers that can control a lot of functions.
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    So I was right the tower crane was jumped.
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    Signage near the lobby.
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    I could see the crane boom from Rice. It's a lot more boom than what I thought it would be but needs to be able to reach the whole project.
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    Fenced off. Linbeck is the GC.
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    I wonder if this is part of the IH 45 realignment? They are doing some major pier drilling here. Maybe new bridges over IH59/69.
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    Looks topped out.
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