GAB Report library
Urban Planning
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Civil Planning Framework Targets Upfront Carbon Before Buildings Rise
Architecture 2030 and Climate Positive Design have introduced an upstream decarbonization framework targeting civil infrastructure, earthwork, and landscape architecture. By establishing material benchmarks and sequestration modeling during early master planning, the initiative tackles embodied carbon before vertical building design begins.
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Ecocity World Summit 2022 is Virtual
Now in its 14th edition, the Ecocity World Summit, the longest running conference on sustainable cities, has come a long way since the first Summit held in Berkeley, California in 1990, making its way throughout the world, from Australia to China, from Turkey to the UAE. Looking back, I have had the opportunity to volunteer…
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1.5°C COP26 Side Event
The Architecture 2030 and ASHRAE official COP26 Side Event took place at COP (UN Climate Change Conference) in Glasgow on November 10th, featuring the 1.5°C COP26 Communiqué and select signatory organizations. The event set the tone for the Cities, Regions & Built Environment Day at COP26 on November 11th, demonstrating that the leading building industry professionals and…
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CarbonPositive RESET! 1.5°C Global Teach-In
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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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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 6.1 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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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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Industrialized Construction Forum 2019
The What: The 5th Annual CIFE Industrialized Construction Forum 2019 will take place on February 21st, 2019 at Stanford University in California. This year’s theme is “Learning from a Global Movement” and the Forum continues to spread as a movement across the globe. Hosted by Stanford University’s Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, the Forum has…