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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.…
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The Hague Leads the Way to Creating Cities of the Future
With Socio-Technical City, UNStudio – in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experts – has created a new urban vision for the ‘Central Innovation District’ (CID) test site in The Hague. The CID test site covers a 1 x 1 km area in the centre of The Hague. Currently the test site is a major…
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ZERO Code As the New International Code
A few weeks ago I refreshed my memory on the urgency of a critical topic: the ZERO Code and why we need to work on achieving zero carbon emissions NOW. The webinar on the Architecture 2030 ZERO Code was hosted by the AIA Codes Advocacy Group, moderated by Paul Karrer, and featured presenters, architects Ed…
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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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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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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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Italian Medical University Leads with Sustainability
Italy-based Humanitas University has a mission to train globally minded healthcare professionals through state-of-the-art interactive teaching methods and close integration with its clinical and research community. Its recently completed green campus designed by Italian architect Filippo Taidelli of FTA Studio is an articulated campus made up of three new buildings of about 25,000 square meters…
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ZNE Buildings Achievable in Every U.S. Climate Zone
Do ZNE buildings make sense in all climate zone types? Apparently they do, and have proven that it is possible to build successful ZNE buildings in every type of U.S. climate zone. New Buildings Institute recently released its 2018 Getting to Zero Status Update and Buildings List, which includes verified ZNE projects and proves that…
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100% Natural Ventilation at Harvard’s HouseZero
A pre-1940s-residential building situated in Harvard University’s campus is being renovated to inspire others on how old and conservative design can be altered to create an ultra-efficient facility with ambitious performance targets. The building, which is to be completed in the spring of 2018, will house The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities’ headquarters,…
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Sonoma Academy Wins Beyond Green High-Performance Building & Community Award
Another win for Sonoma Academy – the school’s Janet Durgin Guild & Commons recently won a Beyond Green High-Performance Building and Community Award from the National Institute of Building Sciences. This is on top of its achievement of the AIA CC Leading Edge Award and AIA COTE Top Ten Award, the industry’s best-known award program for sustainable…