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More Virtuous Circles

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Architecture 2030 estimates that the embodied carbon of materials will account for 72 percent of emissions associated with new construction between now and 2030. Since its creation in 2016, no new materials have been added and there has been no irrigation. Prodded by new laws, designers join France’s emerging circular economy.

Site 101
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ROLL, TIDE

Landscape Architecture Magazine

million to launch an early restoration project in 2012, using Christmas trees to stabilize the dunes (see “Christmas on the Beach,” LAM, March 2016) outside the lodge. Early estimates of the spill’s impacts suggested that the state could lose nearly $1 billion in earnings and up to 49,000 jobs. The state spent $1.5

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Grenfell Tower in West London: Fire Inquiry

e-architect

After the fire at Knowsley Heights, Merseyside in 1991, a handwritten government note from the Department of the Environment, which at the time had responsibility for building regulation, to the Building Research Establishment, asked them to “play down” the issue of the cladding fire at Knowsley. This was in breach of building regulations.

Safety 74
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Competitions: Lucian Blaga Highschool, Cluj-Napoca

Bustler

As such, they are looking for an optimal solution with an average investment budget that proposes a very good management of the construction works necessary to achieve the objectives, while observing the norms and standards in the field of school construction and, at the same time, the related functions, and the urban regulations of the area.

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Buildings With Less Embodied Carbon (Part 2 of Sustainability in Construction)

Community Architect

The AIA journal Architect reports: The American Institute of Steel Construction estimates that 98% of structural steel from demolished buildings is recovered and recycled into new steel products. Another free "calculator" to utilize is the Athena Impact Estimator for Buildings.

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Competitions: 'THE GARDEN OF PLANTS'

Bustler

For the choice of plants and an estimate of the costs, it is possible to consult the Plants catalogue: Catalogo-PianteFaro-2020-21.pdf. Personal data will be processed and stored in accordance with the provisions of the European Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) and the current national legislation related to the protection of personal data.

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Competitions: The International Competition of Open Call for the Creative Scheme of Cuihu Sports Centre

Bustler

The final result should reach the depth of schematic design and meet the depth requirements of the second chapter of the Provisions on the Depth of Construction Engineering Design Documents (2016 Edition) enacted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China.