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AEC Hackathon 6.1 – Silicon Valley
The What: The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon was created to give those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the opportunity to collaborate with cutting edge technologies and its developers and designers. The 40th AEC Hackathon is a weekend of geeking at its finest for improving the industries that affect all that live or…
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Webinar: Architecture 2030 ZERO Code
The free webinar: Architecture 203 ZERO Code will take place on January 24th, 2019 online. We are currently undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in human history. By 2060, the world is projected to add 2.5 trillion square feet of buildings, or an area equal to the entire current global building stock. This is…
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New Safe & Circular Learning Modules
The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and Ellen MacArthur Foundation have launched four new Safe & Circular Learning Modules. The Safe and Circular design methods have been added to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Design Guide to help designers make positive materials choices. Developed by the Institute and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with…
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Living Lab for Energy Efficiency Design
Harvard’s HouseZero project officially opened this week. It is an adaptive re-use project that transforms a pre-1940s Cambridge house into an educational, office building for The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities. More importantly, it serves as a data-driven living lab for documenting and exploring energy efficiency strategies and their performance outcomes. Targeting the…
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Reinventing the Toilet
Since 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has sponsored the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, providing grants and investment to researchers around the world. Last week, the Foundation along with global innovators, development banks, corporate partners, sanitation utilities and governments hosted the first Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing. The Reinvent the Toilet Challenge challenges innovators to…
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Making Water From Air
Architects are often trained as generalists who think about problems globally. Leave it up to an architect and his team to come up with a smart solution to address a critical global water crisis – the severe lack of accessible and clean potable water throughout the world. Congratulations to architect David Hertz and inventor Rich Groden…
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Water Reuse Summit
The What: The Summit will focus on the practical design and application of water reuse systems for architects, engineers, and building owners. It will also highlight the success of San Francisco’s regulatory process and to address the associated regulatory and permitting challenges in jurisdictions that don’t have a well-defined process or where authority is unclear.…
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Webinar: Zero Carbon/Energy Codes
The What: Following closely on the footsteps of last month’s Carbon Smart Building Day Conference, the New Buildings Institute will be hosting a webinar to discuss key policy tools to meet climate goals in its Webinar: Zero Carbon/Energy Codes. As governments of all scales consider options for meeting deep greenhouse gas reduction goals, attention has turned…
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How Do We Get Beyond Net Zero Carbon?
The time is now. As an industry, we have been making headway in greening the built environment for the last twenty years but that is not enough, and not quick enough. We need to achieve zero carbon emissions as soon as possible and act with a sense of urgency. Ed Mazria, Founder and CEO of…
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Webinar: Safe and Circular
The What: What materials should we use to create things? Circular design encourages us to rethink business models, how we make products, and to consider the system surrounding them, but we also need to think about the materials we use. Whether it’s improving the safety of users or ensuring that resources can be used again and again…
