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Building automation systems: All you need to know about intelligent buildings

Building and Interiors

The lighting can be regulated (turned on, off, or dimmed) with smart home automation and building automation system. The motion sensor light switches detect occupancy in the space and regulate the lights in the room. Famous brands that offer smart lighting are: Jaquar lighting. In fact, it is just the beginning.

Building 105
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Redefining Commercial Spaces: Trends in Modern Workplace Design

The Architecture Designs

Innovative Materials and Construction Techniques for Modern Workspaces The use of innovative materials and construction techniques is pivotal in creating modern workspaces that are aesthetically pleasing, environmentally sustainable, and safe.

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Back to Basics: Bioclimatic Design, Learning from History to Build For The Future

Architizer

Yet, while ambition remains too slow, more and more designers are hoping to reverse the architecture and construction industry’s negative impact on our planet. Its distinctive design promotes user interaction, features a green corridor for temperature regulation and incorporates a rainwater collection system for sustainable irrigation.

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Competitions: Project Orellio

Bustler

Compliance: Ensuring designs meet all local, regional, and national building codes and healthcare regulations. Cost Estimation: Assisting in developing accurate construction budgets for each phase. Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP): Integration of smart building technologies. Future expansion capability.

Project 40
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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

David Leven and Stella Betts, the partners of the Manhattan based firm LEVENBETTS , seem to feel the same way judging by their playfully constructed name. Her Sustainable Housing Model would allow people to construct a highly modifiable house for as little as $8,000. Stella Betts. We love a good portmanteau. Gabriela Etchegaray.

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The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels

BD+C

This reduces the need for building demolition and the amount of waste produced in building construction.” Reusing a building and altering its functionality lessens the need for new builds, and with fewer construction materials the impact of embodied carbon is reduced.

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“PHIVE” civic center by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

aasarchitecture

We worked at sculpting the building’s volume to allow for the full daily path of the sun. The link with the natural elements, like the sun, the wind and in a more general way the climate is not the core of the regulation. The smart building controls is used to expel summer heat and is closed to retain winter warmth.