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OPAL, a local Belfast architectural firm and leader in sustainable design and environmental stewardship, said June 10 that it has earned national recognition for the design of Bar Harbor academic building. The Davis Center for Human Ecology at...

Mass timber, wood-fiber insulation, nontoxic finishes, cast-iron plumbing, bird-safe windows and hundreds of solar panels. These are just some of the state-of-the-art, and sometime unique, elements that went into recently completed academic facilities designed to meet the world’s most rigorous standards for energy performance and sustainable construction techniques. College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor built the 29,000-square-foot Davis Center for Human Ecology to passive house standards wit...

Susan T. Rodriguez, the lead architect for the $18 million art center in downtown Waterville, discusses the building's design process.

Rogue employers named and shamed for failing to pay minimum wage The 139 named companies failed to pay £6.7 million to over 95,000 workers. From: 139 companies, including major household names, have short-changed their employees and have been fined offending firms failed to pay £6.7 million to their workers, in a completely unacceptable breach of employment law Business Minister Paul Scully says the list should be a ‘wake-up call’ to rogue bosses, as department relaunches naming schem...

The 139 named companies failed to pay £6.7 million to over 95,000 workers. 139 companies, including major household names, have short-changed their employees and have been fined offending firms failed to pay £6.7 million to their workers, in a completely unacceptable breach of employment law Business Minister Paul Scully says the list should be a ‘wake-up call’ to rogue bosses, as department relaunches naming scheme after 2-year pause Almost 140 companies, including some of the UK’s big...