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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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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…
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Exhibition Opening of The Anatomy of Building Performance
The What: We now have the science and techniques to build for comfort, health, and revolutionary efficiency. At the center of it all is the advanced building envelope. Join AIA Portland and builder Hammer & Hand for this exhibit of building praxis, “Evolution of Enclosure: the Anatomy of Building Performance.” The exhibit will explore the building…
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Historic Rutgers University Welcomes New Green Campus
Rutgers University is the eighth-oldest college in the United States, and one of only nine to be founded before the American Revolution. Located on the banks of the Raritan River in New Brunswick, NJ, it famously hosted the first intercollegiate football game ever played in 1869. Since its establishment, the Old Queen’s campus (as it’s…
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Thought Provoking Green Building Webinars Now Online
For those of you who are not able to attend in person green building classes, especially those in the United States, there is a new option now. I’m excited to announce the recent release of the new Contemporary Leadership Webinar Series offered by the Sustainable Building Advisor Program in collaboration with Design AVEnues LLC. The…
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Building Health Forum
The What: Join more than 275 of the world’s preeminent experts and thought leaders pioneering the healthy buildings and healthy communities movement at USGBC Northern California Chapter’s upcoming Building Health Forum for a series of provocative keynotes, educational sessions, tours, and networking receptions. The Building Health Forum is the first feature-length event produced by the Building Health Initiative, an unprecedented…
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Hey World, Get Up and Green Up!
World Green Building Week is here! During the week of September 22-27 2014, Green Building Councils in countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Middle East and North Africa and representing more than 27,000 organizations will host more than 200 events to celebrate World Green Building Week under the theme: “Get Up, Green Up.”…