In 2000, the C.H.A. announced it would tear down buildings under its plan to transform pockets of poverty into mixed-income neighborhoods.
Maui Community College is preparing to offer a course in hale-building under its continuing education program.
Ms. Stainback said the public housing agency has been hobbled by a budget deficit of $137 million, which affects its ability to maintain all 336 buildings under its purview.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission, the agency charged with protecting the city's architectural and historic gems, has just revamped its Web site to help preservation-minded New Yorkers learn more about the 23,000 buildings under its care.
The programme has been hit by delays but the first new mainstream school buildings under its banner will open in Bristol next month, with about a dozen projects completed by next April.
The council certifies buildings under its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, which awards "basic," "silver," "gold" and "platinum" honors depending on factors such as how storm-water runoff is handled, whether adhesives used in construction give off toxic gases and whether any wood installed is of a type that is easily regrown.
San Francisco is committed to achieving certification by the U.S. Green Building Council under its Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design rating system, the leading U.S. standard for green building and urban development.
"We are playing an England side that has been building up under its new leadership, and will see Saturday as the chance to lay down a marker for the future.
(212-244-7529) www.orgnaTHEetheatre.org "THE SPITFIRE GRILL" Playwrights Horizons, with its new building under construction, begins its peripatetic season with this new musical based on the 1996 film about a young woman who moves to a small Wisconsin town and galvanizes its rejuvenation.
Does the city prohibit demolition by implosion, or is there something about the building that prevents this? A. Implosion involves the precise weakening of a building's support columns with small, carefully timed charges, causing the building to collapse under its own weight in seconds.
