Articles by Nadine M. Post

Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena aims to be the first International Living Future Institute Zero Carbon certified professional sports venue in the world.

Conservationists are hailing the passage last week by the U.S. House of Representatives of the Bird-Safe Buildings Act. 

There is good news for boosters of a modular system of tied dual-plate walls field-filled with concrete—dubbed SpeedCore for its potential to slash superstructure construction time compared to steel frames with reinforced concrete cores.

If all goes according to plan, construction of Atlassian headquarters could begin early next year on a 40-story hybrid timber-and-structural-steel office building in Sydney, Australia

Designers, contractor in Portland, Ore., invest in the first resilient ‘Living’ office building

Creators of the free-to-use Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator have added several features since the tool’s release last November. 

Known as far back as the mid-1960s for a radical notion that the architect of the future would be a manager of many disciplines—among them engineering, psychology, politics, economics, ecology, art and technology— the industry pioneer died May 2 from complications from COVID-19 and congestive heart failure.

In an unprecedented collaboration, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, along with floor covering supplier Interface are showing their collective commitment to embodied carbon reduction by joining the board of Building Transparency—a nonprofit formed recently to further develop a free-to-use digital tool for estimating embodied carbon in building construction, called the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator.