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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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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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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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Hands-on Learning: UCSC Multi-use Micropod
The What: There will be an open house of the UCSC Multi-use Micropod at a new location in the Bay Area. The UCSC Tiny House Design Lab serves as an applied science hands-on, project based learning environment. The course gives students the opportunity to practice and apply the concepts of design and engineering. In the…
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Live Stream: Southface’s Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable on Kendeda Building
Southface’s Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable will discuss lessons learned from The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design on Friday, March 1st, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The event is sold out but the organizers will be streaming live on their Facebook page at 7:30 am EST. Tune in then at www.facebook.com/SouthfaceInst. The Georgia Institute of…
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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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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…