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2020 Architecture at Zero Competition
The 2020 Architecture at Zero competition, now in its ninth year, was conceived as a response to the zero net energy targets set out by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) in the 2008 report, California’s Long Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan. In this report, the CPUC set out four “Big Bold Energy Efficiency Strategies”…
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Facades+ San Francisco
The symposium program includes three sessions covering issues unique to the region, including innovative building skins, high performance facades, and the future face of San Francisco.
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Getting to Zero Forum 2019
The What: The 2019 Getting to Zero Forum is a global event dedicated to defining a new zero energy, zero carbon future for the built environment. The program details have recently been finalized and the program looks exciting, jam-packed with plenary sessions and breakouts covering topics ranging from zero energy and zero carbon policies to…
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nZEB Oodi – More Than Just a Library
Editor’s note: If I have the opportunity, I always try to include some personal perspective on the projects that I feature on the Green Architecture and Building Report. My friends Andrea Lee and Giles Richter recently traveled to Helsinki and spent at least a couple of hours exploring a really cool, new building near the…
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Accelerate Transition to Circular Built Environment
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Plastic Pollution: Crisis and Opportunity
For years, China was importing almost half of the world’s scrap plastics and paper. Now, countries have been scrambling to figure out what to do with their recyclables ever since China banned most scrap material imports almost two years ago. Here in California, we have been wondering how this would affect our conscious recycling efforts…
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Simplicity and Sustainability Merge at Medical Campus
The Humanitas University of Milan project comes to a conclusion with the student residences designed by architect Filippo Taidelli of FTA studio based in Milan, Italy. Research, education, and hospitality combined with sustainability become a model of excellence in education. Pieve Emanuele (MI) –The opening of the Mario Luzzatto Student House residences completes the Humanitas…
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From Sustainable to Circular
The What: The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute will soon be presenting its seminar – From Sustainable to Circular: How the Right Materials Choices Can Make Green Buildings Greener in city near you in the upcoming months. Global support for the circular economy is gathering momentum — and the building industry is quickly beginning…
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2019 COTE Top Ten
Congratulations to the 2019 winners of the COTE Top Ten awards program for sustainable design excellence. The winning projects not only met the AIA Committee on the Environment’s rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value but also demonstrated that good design is more than just pretty looking buildings. Many of the winning projects live…
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Swiss Village School Doubles As Communal Power Station
Neue Schule Port, an energy-plus building and MINERGIE-A rated elementary school, is located in a residential neighborhood in the Swiss village of Port. With its distinctive folded roof structure, the school’s roof design references the pitched roofs of the surrounding houses, the rural history of the region and the smooth hills of the Jura Mountains.…
