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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.…
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Creating Circularity at Ecobuild/Futurebuild 2019
Futurebuild’s main focus this year was on Circular Cities and Circular Economies. Circular Cities/Economies is an economic theory based on the finite resources of the planet and how all things have a dollar value. According to Circle-Economy.com, “Circular Cities believe the built environment should be a ‘living’ system in which building materials and products are…
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AEC Hackathon 6.2 – Seattle
The AEC Hackathon 6.2 – Seattle will take place on April 26th – 28th, 2019 in Seattle at University of Washington’s Center for Research and Education in Construction. The 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.…
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AEC Hackathon 6.1 Inspires Creative Solutions
Editor’s Note: Each award-winning team contributed to this article by providing a description of its product. Last month, fifty plus people gathered to geek out for two days to attend the AEC Hackathon 6.1 Silicon Valley, the fortieth hackathon that has taken place since 2013. The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon was created to give…
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International Mass Timber Conference
The What: The International Mass Timber Conference is the largest gathering of cross-laminated timber and other mass timber experts in the world, with a special focus on manufacturing and mid- to high-rise construction. Over 1,200 experts from 22 countries attended in 2018. Explore the supply chain for cross-laminated timber (CLT), nail-laminated timber, glulam beams and…