From Termite Den to Office Building

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Published in the United States of America by Cherry Lake Publishing Ann Arbor Michigan www cherrylakepublishing com Content Adviser Marjan Eggermont Senior Instructor Schulich School of Engineering Calgary Alberta Canada Reading Adviser Marla Conn ReadAbility Inc Design The Design Lab Photo Credits Cover and page 3 Ken Wilson-Max Alamy cover inset and page 10 Piotr Gatlik Shutterstock Inc page 4 Anton Chalakov Shutterstock Inc page 6 Realchemyst Shutterstock Inc page 7 Aleksey Stemmer Shutterstock Inc page 9 smuay Shutterstock Inc page 13 Jay Hocking Shutterstock Inc page 14 damien_farrell http www flickr com CC BY 2 0 page 16 Craig Buchanan Alamy page 17 garybembridge http www flickr com CC BY 2 0 page 20 kzww Shutterstock Inc page 21 Artazum and Iriana Shiyan Shutterstock Inc page 23 Dmitriy Komarov Shutterstock Inc page 25 AP Photo Koji Sasahara page 27 deadlyphoto com Alamy page 29 Bettmann Corbis AP Images Copyright 2014 by Cherry Lake Publishing All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Yomtov Nelson From termite den to office building by Nel Yomtov pages cm Innovations from nature Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-62431-755-2 library binding ISBN 978-1-62431-767-5 pdf ISBN 978-1-62431-761-3 paperback ISBN 978-1-62431-773-6 e-book 1 Office buildings Design and construction Juvenile literature 2 Architecture Technological innovations Juvenile literature 3 Termites Habitations Juvenile literature 4 Biomimicry Juvenile literature I Title NA6230 Y65 2014 720 dc23 Cherry Lake Publishing would like to acknowledge the work of The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Please visit www p21 org for more information 2013031285 Printed in the United States of America Corporate Graphics Inc January 2014