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In terms of consumption in 2017, Asia-Pacific accounts for almost 45% of the market followed by North America and Europe. This is primarily due to the rising demand from China, and India. Rise in construction sector is one of the key factor boosting the demand for vacuum insulation panels. China is one of the major revenue contributors in the Asia-Pacific region. Some of the megaprojects that increased the vacuum insulation panels consumption in the region are New Guanjiao Tunnel, Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway line, etc. Moreover, the commercial and office construction market remains positive in Beijing. The Government of India has a program to develop 100 smart cities countrywide, and it’s Make in India program, designed to encourage funds for development in the logistics and manufacturing sectors, is underway. These factors are boosting the market demand.

Fresh from launching their first Chinese Serpentine pavilion in Beijing, gallery directors Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Yana Peel are keen to emphasise that Escobedo’s project is “a beautiful harmony of Mexican and British influences”. The perforated walls, or “celosias”, are a reference to the breeze walls characteristic of Mexican architecture, while the standard English roof tiles are tied to the London context by an invisible layer of artistic symbolism. Some walls are oriented to the prime meridian line, established in Greenwich in 1851, the same year the Great Exhibition turned this corner of the city into a cultural quarter. It’s a nice story, although the 8,000 “off-the-peg” tiles are specially fabricated pieces, pressed with a pair of holes to enable the threading.

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“I could hear their dogs breathing,” she said. “I could hear their dogs peeing on the floor upstairs.”

There’s a travel pillow that fits all the way around your head — so you get neck and chin support. (Read: no more head bobbing forward.)

Bamigbetan said the Lekki Peninsula Scheme 1 was conceived in the early 80s covering 1,046 hectares, stretching from the Lagos Lagoon to the Atlantic Ocean and of the Lekki-Epe Expressway cutting across the scheme.

OUTFRONT Media’s funds from operations (FFO) per share estimates for 2018 have been marginally revised upward to $2.09 in the past 30 days. Its shares have gained 3.5% over the past six months.

The clarification on the treatment of battery storage installed alongside existing FIT-accredited solar has taken over a year, during which time the STA fed in specific case studies from its members, and worked alongside other industry bodies to effect change. The nascent UK domestic battery storage market had been impeded by confusion because of two conflicting pieces of official guidance, one of which required solar homes installing smart meters to switch to export metering & therefore lose their deeming. The other official guidance inhibited homes from receiving payment for their metered export where they had installed battery storage (except in specific circumstances such as when a disconnection relay is installed), because of the risk of rewarding power drawn from the grid, not directly from the solar installation. The conflicting guidance and resulting confusion had therefore discouraged solar homeowners from installing battery storage and smart meters.