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I’m a Jack of All Trades and a Master of None

SW Oregon Architect

Architects with significant design or project management duties still possess a considerable depth of expertise; however, that depth of expertise is necessary across the full range of concerns for which they are responsible. Fundamentally, architects bring to the project an understanding that a whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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Ecology centre in coastal Maine is "model of holistic sustainability"

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Rodriguez (design principal), Joshua Homer (project architect, design), Mikhail Grinwald, Sonia Flamberg, George Switzer, Duncan White, Yang Zhao Architect of record and building performance design: OPAL OPAL team: Timothy Lock, (principal-in-charge), Alex Rosenthal (project manager), Gabe Tomasulo, Wilfredo Marrero, Jolie Lau Structural engineer: (..)

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SOM covers computing college at MIT in large glass shingles

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The building is topped with a large green roof that helps with onsite stormwater management. Interior finishes are "Red List free", meaning they don't contain unhealthy chemicals that have been " red-listed " by the International Living Future Institute. The white oak used in the lobby is FSC certified.

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Deborah Berke Partners revamps modernist law centre at Harvard University

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The architects noted that much of the original building was saved — up to 80 per cent, based on their estimates. This has resulted in a "40 per cent reduction in embodied carbon emissions" when compared to the construction of a new building with standard materials, according to the studio.

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HGA creates two mass-timber buildings for Bowdoin College in Maine

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Mills Hall contains an event space Both buildings were constructed using a timber frame system, which HGA estimates has reduced the "building's embodied carbon footprint by approximately 75 per cent when compared to a traditional steel structure". The photography is by Michael Moran.

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New report examines ongoing costs of green infrastructure options

BD+C

A new publication released by the American Society of Civil Engineers investigates the cost of various green infrastructure options to reduce the release of stormwater. Cost of Maintaining Green Infrastructure quantifies expenses associated with operating and maintaining sustainable stormwater-management technologies.

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Kadre Architects creates colourful transitional housing in California desert

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Residents receive three hot meals a day, and case managers are on-site to help provide various support services. It is estimated that unhoused Californians represent 28 per cent of the total unhoused population in the US.

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