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Planners behind a new elevated urban park in D.C. hope that their new project serves to bring communities long divided by the Anacostia River together and spur econonic development.
It is possible for any building to be net zero, if enough photovoltaics are deployed. It’s just not economical to purchase the number of panels required for traditional buildings. For the SMUD operations center, the design team kept its eye on creating an energy miser, to minimize the investment in PV.
In 2011, when I was reporting the Jeff Baker Award of Excellence story, I heard—off the record—about another net-zero-annual-energy-use (NZE) building project just entering the design stage that had been influenced by the performance-based design-build NZE Research Support Facility (RSF) at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). Baker was the visionary behind that building.
U.S. Green Buidling Council releases "dynamic" program to measure building performance and give designers more flexibility in creating more energy efficient buildings.
Architect Tadao Ando hasn’t changed much in 11 years. And he is quite proud of that. He still does not speak English, or at least that’s what he says, and he still brags about it. And he is still uncompromising. Ando was in New York City this week for a media briefing on one of his commissions—two
The insurance industry was sifting data long before the rest of us thought it was cool. For the most part insurers keep the data to themselves, but at the International Risk Management Institute's construction conference in San Diego this week insurers told us some of the insights provided by their claims data. Two defect
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