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ALQST documents "first death of a migrant worker on a Neom site"

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The conditions of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia were recently highlighted in an ITV documentary, which stated that there have reportedly been 21,000 migrant worker fatalities in the country since the Saudi Vision 2030 projects began eight years ago. "At

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Buro Happold pledges to eliminate embodied carbon in projects as part of SE 2050 commitment

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Engineering firm Buro Happold has become the latest signatory to the SE 2050 Commitment Program, which unites structural engineering firms behind the common goal to slash embodied carbon emissions from their projects by 2050. As structural engineers, we are more able to influence embodied carbon, so that is the focus for us.".

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Mass timber "definitely not the right way to go" says Benjamin Kromoser

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I think, really, it will be before 2030." Using wood doesn't [automatically] make a building sustainable" Kromoser leads the Institute of Green Civil Engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, which receives funding from both industry and public sector organisations.

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Fast Tracked

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The group, which is led by the Carbon Leadership Forum, Architecture 2030, Building Transparency, the U.S. The Embodied Carbon Harmonization and Optimization (ECHO) Project is an industry effort to standarize embodied carbon reporting across carbon calculators, rating systems, and other platforms.

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The Hangar at Kenmore Town Square by Graham Baba Architects

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The Hangar at Kenmore Town Square meets the 2030 Challenge based on Total Project Energy Use Index (EUI) for when the project was designed (2015). The 2015 target was a 70% reduction in CO2 emissions was the 2030 challenge target. Photo © Andrew Pogue Provisions for a cafe and a small bakery were incorporated into the design.

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Oregon Episcopal School Athletic Center by Hacker

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With a highly efficient envelope, passive cooling strategy, and minimal mechanical conditioning, this building strives for high performance, meeting the Energy Trust of Oregon-Path to Net Zero and aligning with the Architecture 2030 Challenge goals. Source by Hacker.

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Martin Flats by HASTINGS Architecture

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With rents rising15% in the past year alone and a projected 50,000-unit deficit by 2030, the city’s housing crisis shows no signs of slowing. In 2019 the Tennessee Housing Development Agency reported that over45% of Nashville, renters are housing cost-burdened: spending more than 30% of their income on housing-related expenses.