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Architecture at Zero 2015 Winners
Recently the winners of Architecture at Zero 2015 were announced and awarded by PG&E and the American Institute of Architects, California Council. Now in its fifth year, this zero net energy design competition open to architecture, engineering, planning students and professionals was conceived as a response to the zero net energy (ZNE) targets set out…
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Gas Station Transformed into LEED Gold Hotel
If you are planning to visit Healdsburg in the wine country of Northern California, try to check out the LEED Gold certified h2hotel in between your wine tasting. Designed by award-winning David Baker Architects and selected by Fodor’s 100 Hotels 2012 as one of the top recommended hotels in the world, the 36-room inn is…
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Ecoweek 2015 – Greece
The What: Ecoweek 2015-Greece, International Conference & Sustainable Design Workshops with the theme of Sustainability in Public Space, will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece this November. In its 10th year, the conference brings together presenters from Greece and Spain to Netherlands and Germany and inspirational topics ranging from Societal Equity Through Sustainable Design to Nanotechnology…
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From Down and Out to Solar Pioneer
The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara (HACSC) has successfully transformed a previously foreclosed federal housing complex into a dignified and energy efficient, affordable family housing complex that annually feeds 244,350 kWh of renewable energy to the power grid and enables all the residents to “go solar” and reap the cost benefits of…
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Building Carbon Zero 2015
The What: The 4th annual Building Carbon Zero conference hosted by Passive House California will take place in Palo Alto, California this year. The Program includes engaging speakers, a bike tour of projects including Palo Alto’s first passive house and a tiny Passive House named Mightyhouse. The keynote speaker will be Peter Busby, Principal at Perkins+Will…
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AEC Hackathon 2.6 New York
The What: AEC Hackathon 2.6 New York goes to New York for the second time this year. 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 as well as with its developers and designers. The first AEC Hackathon…
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Triple Green Building Certification Is Achievable
Portland and Seattle-based builder Hammer & Hand was recently awarded the 2015 Housing Innovation Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for its energy consulting on and construction of the Pumpkin Ridge Passive House designed by Scott | Edwards Architecture. Builder and architect worked together closely to meet the homeowners’ spatial and aesthetic goals while also meeting the performance…
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$20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
Registration is open. The grand challenge has been put forth – how can we reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by converting it into something valuable? The $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE will challenge the world to reimagine what we can do with CO2 emissions by incentivizing and accelerating the development of technologies that…
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Ecocity World Summit – Abu Dhabi 2015
The What: Ecocity World Summit (ECWS) 2015, a biennial event that will be hosted in the Middle East for the very first time, will tackle the issues around building ecocities in challenging environments, and serve as the platform upon which Abu Dhabi and the region will carry their ecocity visions forward. ECWS 2015 aims to build on…
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New Online Series to Help Meet 2030 Challenge
Architecture 2030 recently announced the launch of the first course in the new AIA+2030 Online Series, an educational program aimed at providing American Institute of Architects (AIA) members and other design professionals with the high-performance building knowledge necessary to meet the 2030 Challenge targets. The AIA+2030 Online Series will provide design professionals the tools to…
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Love It! Free Green Webinars from Heat Spring
Its becoming easier and easier to learn from the comfort of your own space and build upon your green building knowledge. HeatSpring offers free and fee-based, premium online courses taught by industry professionals. Course categories range from building science, insulation, and sustainable building, to big data, batteries / energy storage, and biomass. Free courses include…
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Winners of 2nd perFORM Building Design Competition
The winners of the perFORM 2015 Building Design Competition were announced by Hammer & Hand at a ceremony held at AIA Portland’s Center for Architecture. Winning Entry: Jon Lund, Narek Mirzaei, and Luis Sabater Musa, University of Cincinnati. Runner-Up: Sang-Oh Jo, JungA Hong, and Do Yoon Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Runner-Up: Eduardo Gandara, California State…