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Bright ideas: UNCC professor enlightens Charlotte building design (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: November 21,2012

Daylight is good. Builders, developers and architects don’t need a longhair professor with fancy gadgets and computer programs to tell them that the sun is handy for construction workers to see with, that it is a major reason why windows exist, that it warms and illuminates the insides of structures.


The dark side of green (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: March 15,2011

Piedmont Row was built in 2006 in Charlotte’s SouthPark area. The condominium project is part of Piedmont Town Center, a trendy mixed-use development on Carnegie Boulevard that also features stores and restaurants. The condos are known for being energy efficient, which has been growing in popularity among homebuyers. And that popular feature is why Piedmont [...]