Sentence examples for sound buildings from inspiring English sources

Mr. Risku said he had left in frustration at its culture; he now designs environmentally sound buildings.

The contrasts there evoked the capricious power of an earthquake, with structurally sound buildings standing across the street from smoking mounds of rubble five or six stories high.

The renovation of the warehouse, once a United States Steel depot, is considered a prominent example of a national trend toward imaginative workplace architecture, as well as toward more environmentally sound buildings.

"I think what they should do is take the more structurally sound buildings and weave them into the current plan," said Mr. Warnecke, who dodged the farm's cows while trekking to a swimming hole as a boy.

Building department employees walked block by block through the city, tallying the number of multiunit, soft-story buildings constructed before 1973, when changes to the city's building codes mandated more structurally sound buildings.

Russell Unger, the executive director of the Urban Green Council, the New York chapter of the United States Green Building Council, which confers the seal of approval, known as LEED certification, for environmentally sound buildings, said that improvements in energy efficiency were the best long-term investment for property owners looking at the bottom line.

A few sound building principles can make a big difference, he added.

As I watched it I could almost hear a static sound building up in the background.

[C5.] An Environmentally Sound Building One Bryant Park, a 52-story skyscraper for Bank of America that is scheduled to open in 2008, has received the highest, or platinum, rating as an environmentally sound building.

BOMBS may be going off elsewhere in the Middle East, but the southern Gulf emirate of Dubai reverberates to a different sound: building.

The newspaper has installed the sound of old-fashioned typewriters in its newsroom, with the sound building to a crescendo at press deadline.