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Solar Designer Secrets: How to Design Solar Photovoltaic Arrays

This article details the various steps a solar designer will follow to design a solar photovoltaic installation. The solar designer first requests these inputs about the target site to start on a design project: - A dimensioned view of the roof - ... Read >

Chennai Architecture: Latest Trends

Chennai architecture depends upon the architect, the client’s requirement, the latest architectural trends and the materials available to Chennai’s building industry. The latest architectural trends play the major role, and these trends are to an extent i... Read >

How to Stop Being a Compulsive Shopper

“You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn." --- Abraham Lincoln Many of us are unable to resist compulsive shopping urges. We are abused by them and often driven by them to irrational acts of purchase. To disobey them entails total ... Read >

Is Pursuing Wealth All There Is to Life?

Sure, wealth is necessary to live. What is the point of going through life without worldly comforts and living in consequent pain, misery or deprivation? All these make life unhappy. Would you rather spend your life unhappily or happily? I bet I know ... Read >

Find Happiness by Being Yourself and Not a Persona

Most people constantly identify with a "persona" instead of their true selves… and are not even aware that they are doing so. Are you one of them? I hope not… What exactly is a "persona"? A "persona" in this case is how you define "yourself". ... Read >

Find Happiness By Letting Go

We are like a person holding on to a piece of rope. Our mind and body is like the rope. We hold on for dear life, thinking that if we were to let go, we will fall to our death. Our parents, teachers, and many others have told us this is so; and when we l... Read >

How Inner Peace Helps You Deal with Grief

The loss of a loved one is always devastating to the psyche. However, if you are grounded in inner peace, the impact on you is greatly reduced. When a loved one passes on, the intellectual effects are overwhelming. Memories, fears, and confusion hit you ... Read >

3D Visualizations: How Can You Tell Them from Photographs?

For the purposes of this explanation, we categorize 3D visualizations into two types: interior visualizations and exterior visualizations. ~~ Recognizing an Interior Visualization ~~ Any three of the following criteria prove that an image of the i... Read >

Dealing with Pain: How Inner Peace Helps

To align with the boundless peace within you, you have to first locate it. Once that is done, you have to align yourself with it during every waking moment, until it becomes effortless. This is actually quite easy, since the state you will be in is your b... Read >

Overcoming Low Self-Esteem with Inner Peace

Almost everyone has felt low self-esteem at some point in their lives. Some feel it fleetingly and some for protracted periods of time. The best scenario is when you have banished it forever from your psyche. The fact is that if you have found the unshaka... Read >

How Inner Peace Helps You Deal with Pain

Pain is one of the less enjoyable facets of life. We all have dealt with it at some points in our lives, and it is very likely that most of us have not seen the last of it. It is usually a disturbing experience, the degree of mental discomfort being direc... Read >

Find Happiness 15: Why You Should Sit in a Park

Most of us spend timing chasing things and events to feel happy. A little-known fact is that an inexhaustible supply of happiness lies within us. The trouble is, instructions for finding it are not widely available. This article is one place where they ar... Read >

Drafting Services: Building Information Modeling

Building Information Modeling entails the construction of a building on the computer before building it in the physical world. This virtual model is built in three dimensions and can be moved and rotated as if it were a real object (although one might not... Read >

3-D Visualization and Render Farms

The term "drafting services" encompasses several activities. Examples are 2D drafting, 3D drafting and 3D visualization. The subject of this article is 3D visualization, and some of the on-the-ground realities associated with it. 3D visualization is th... Read >

Structural Steel Detailing: Its Standards and Its Software Tools

Structural steel detailing is the design and drafting of the connections between the steel beams and columns in the massive steel frameworks that form the skeleton of most multi-story buildings in the western hemisphere. The design of these connection... Read >