December 16, 1996Removing formwork of 4th Unit kneewall.

August 31, 2017This week our construction manager led a trip of workshop participants to Sedona Recycle Inc to drop off a load of recyclable electronics, plastic, and styrofoam and tour their hard working facility.Our tour guide was incredibly helpful, taking the time to explain how they process each different material and type of material. She even showed us where they have to exclusively separate cat food containers from other metals. Sedona Recycle Inc uses an industrial baler to condense the materials they collect into manageable sizes. Here their cardboard and paperboard have already been processed through the baler, and the numbers spray painted onto them indicate each bundle’s weight.They have a machine that mixes the different styrofoam pieces up and compresses the beads into dense logs. Construction Intern, Du Hao, shows off their condensed styrofoam.Workshop participant, Richard, and Eli from the construction crew stand beside the stacks of aluminum and steel cans that have been processed by the baler.The crushed cans together create a beautiful and serious reminder of how much waste Americans produce.In true devotion to “reduce, reuse, recycle,” Sedona Recycles Inc has this whimsical dragon at the entrance of their facility to show off the creative possibilities of our waste. (photos and text by Shannon Mackenzie) read more

BT’s YouView boxUK connected TV platform YouView infringes a trademark owned by a Total Ltd, an independent telecoms company based in South West England, according to a High Court ruling. The judgement, which was issued yesterday, concludes that YouView’s set top boxes and TV service infringed Total’s ‘YourView’ trademark, and dismissed YouView’s argument that the trademark was invalid.With the decision, Total, which is a business-to-business telco service provider based in Cheltenham, said it will now seek an injunction against YouView to prevent any further use of the name, together with financial payment and legal costs.However, YouView said in a statement that it planned to appeal against the High Court’s decision.“We maintain there is no confusion between our consumer-facing TV service, YouView, and the business-to-business billing platform, Yourview, provided by Total Ltd,” a YouView spokesperson told DTVE.Lorrin White, managing director of Total said: “Whilst Total may not compare to YouView in terms of size, we both operate in the same industry space.  We protect our rights to brand ownership and wholeheartedly defend those rights – as any business should – otherwise we would never have registered our marks in the first place.“Our integrated YourView products are core to the long term strategy of Total.  We are a business that respects our partners, competitors and the wider industry, but YouView have persisted in their infringement of our registered mark, leaving us no option but to take action through the courts.”The High Court ruling is the latest development in a legal spat between Total and YouView that stretches back to 2012. YouView is backed by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, BT, TalkTalk and Arqiva. read more