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Sustainability isn't one of the specific categories recognized by the AIA in its Honor Awards program. It might as well be. Sustainable design is a theme that threads through all of the individual award categories, from interior architecture to regional design. Even the 25-Year Award ...
Credit: Patrick George Enlarge Close The sun is an important resource for architects and designers who wish to promote energy efficiency and environmental quality in built spaces. Daylight can increase light levels, provide good color rendition, and positively impact immune system hea...
Microstructured surface of the plasmonic cavity with subwavelength hole array (PlaCSH) Enlarge Close As the threat of more expensive fossil fuels looms, scientists have focused with increased intensity on solar cell efficiency, or the portion of energy that is converted into electrici...
ECOHOME and ECO-STRUCTURE, Hanley Wood’s two media brands dedicated to green building, design and construction, are launching ECOBUILDING Pulse, a new email newsletter tracking the latest green-building news, projects, technology, and products. In the past, both ECOHOME and ECO-STRUCT...
What if our buildings were living entities that morphed in response to environmental conditions? Could façades adjust to air-pollution levels? Could we grow our own building materials to reduce toxins and carbon footprints? Such are the questions driving the work of David Benjamin, co...
Indeed, energy modeling data has validated the focus on the building’s envelope. A comparable building designed to code would have used 98 kBtu per year, the architects explain. The IGC was designed to use 43 kBtu annually. Even better, it turned out to use just 35 kBtu in its first y...
Gathering a host of thought leaders for the opening plenary of Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in November, the USGBC called for wider engagement, and increased performance data and transparency in projects and products, while telling detractors the organization will cont...
, written by IMT’s Andrea Krukowski and Andrew C. Burr, describes the particular barriers to energy efficiency in multifamily housing, such as dispersed property ownership; a general lack of information on buildings’ energy performance; owners’ difficulty in obtaining the energy data ...
