Engineering, Environment and Smart Buildings

Could ‘smart’ building facades heat and cool buildings?

BD+C

JUNE 18, 2024

Could ‘smart’ building facades heat and cool buildings? 0 dbarista Tue, 06/18/2024 - 15:58 Building Technology A promising research project looks at the possibilities for thermoelectric systems to thermally condition buildings, writes Mahsa Farid Mohajer, Sustainable Building Analyst with Stantec.

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From Timeless Materials to High-Tech Hybrids: A New Era in Architecture and Construction

Architizer

JUNE 10, 2024

This integration leverages the natural strengths and aesthetic appeal of traditional materials while enhancing them with properties through modern engineering techniques. For example, wood, a renewable and versatile resource, is transformed into engineered products like cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glue-laminated timber (glulam).

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Designing for personal technology is crucial for senior living facilities

BD+C

JANUARY 11, 2024

Jeff Carpenter, PE, RCDD MFPRO+ Blog Senior Living Design Designers Engineers Architects Smart Buildings Today’s seniors are increasingly tech savvy. They use smartphones, smartwatches, and smart home technology, and subscribe to streaming platforms they watch on smart TVs and other connected devices.

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Cutting-Edge Innovations in Wood-Frame Construction

Santa Cruz Architect

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

These engineered wood products are incredibly strong and allow for the construction of taller wooden buildings, challenging the dominance of steel and concrete in high-rise construction. Components of wooden structures are manufactured in controlled factory environments and then transported to the construction site for assembly.

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Smart building technology: Talking results at the BUILDINGChicago/ Greening the Heartland show

BD+C

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

From regional success stories to emerging technology presentations, the 70+ continuing education sessions will explore the various ways that sustainable construction and design adds value to the built environment. Body Image: read more.

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Competitions: The 1st STELSI International Metaverse Architecture Competition

Bustler

JULY 6, 2023

Architecture emerges from the dynamic interplay between humans, the environment, beliefs, and values. Architects equipped with this opportunity can craft environments that facilitate the discovery and understanding of information in novel and engaging ways.

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Sustainable Architecture: How Green Building Practices are Reshaping the Industry

DesignRulz

JULY 24, 2023

Presented below are some ways in which green building practices are transforming the architecture world: Integrated design approach: Sustainable establishment practices foster an integrated design approach, enabling architects, engineers, and other architectural project stakeholders to collaborate from the construction planning.

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KAAN Architecten and LOW Architecten to renovate the headquarters of the National Bank of Belgium

aasarchitecture

JUNE 28, 2024

Image © KAAN Architecten Moreover, the design focuses on establishing sightlines throughout the building and the atrium to improve the visibility of lifts and stairwells, with distinct entrances contributing to easy navigation and orientation for occupants and visitors alike.

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Construction reaches roof levels of landmark development above Hong Kong’s High Speed Rail West Kowloon Terminus by Zaha Hadid Architects

aasarchitecture

MAY 29, 2024

Image © Zaha Hadid Architects A centralised plant of high-efficiency HVAC systems combined with seawater cooling, heat recovery and a smart building management system that automatically monitors and controls services will ensure the highest standards of comfort and air quality with a significant reduction in energy consumption.

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150 Holborn Building, Dar Group London HQ

e-architect

JUNE 15, 2023

We have invested in smart building technology throughout and this provides us with a ‘living lab’ for data and data analytics on staff wellbeing, operational efficiency and asset performance. “We

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Ecole Primaire Santiguyah Enhances Access to High-Quality Education in Rural Areas of Guinea

Architizer

OCTOBER 28, 2022

We have already developed and completes many design-build projects with students. The distance from the urban environment was a significant challenge and eventually an absolute blessing in constructing the elementary school. As architects, we are the catalyst for social processes, appropriateness, and climate-smart building.

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The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels

BD+C

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels 0 qpurcell Fri, 09/15/2023 - 11:42 Hotel Facilities The luxury hotel market has seen an increase in green-minded guests looking for opportunities to support businesses that are conscientious of the environment. It is important to note that new building is not always a negative.

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Competitions: Project Orellio

Bustler

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Patient-Centered Environment: Create facilities that enhance patient experience and satisfaction. Compliance: Ensuring designs meet all local, regional, and national building codes and healthcare regulations. Coordination: Working closely with the project team, including engineers, contractors, and consultants.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

2020 A+Award winner Anna Maria Bordas is an architect from ENSAVT and engineer of Ponts et Chaussées engineering school. She has formally wed her expertise in the two disciplines by founding Bordas+Peiro Architect and Engineering Firm. Anna Maria Bordas. Architecture Studio.

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30 Best Architecture Firms in Australia

Architizer

JANUARY 6, 2023

When it comes to the built environment, Australia’s architectural landscape is filled with trends and advancements quite similar to those explored in the West. We bring together all design, planning and engineering disciplines through a holistic process, creating design that is responsive, technically elegant and efficient.

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BEEAH Group’s new headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects

aasarchitecture

APRIL 4, 2022

With their new headquarters, BEEAH demonstrates how technology can scale sustainable impact and ultimately serve as a blueprint for tomorrow’s smart, sustainable cities. Smart building technologies by Microsoft, Johnson Controls and EVOTEQ, a BEEAH Digital venture.

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Does Smart Technology Make Us Less Resilient?

Community Architect

OCTOBER 4, 2024

While this isn't an architectural issue, cars highlight for the broad public the issues users can have with smart buildings. The propagators of smart technology are only slightly flustered by the failures which more and more people have experienced. Artificial Intelligence has put new public eagerness for smart technology.

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BEEAH Headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects

aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With their new headquarters, BEEAH demonstrates how technology can scale sustainable impact and ultimately serve as a blueprint for tomorrow’s smart, sustainable cities. Smart building technologies by Microsoft, Johnson Controls and EVOTEQ, a BEEAH Digital venture.

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Architecture Articles: Building Design

e-architect

JANUARY 29, 2023

Autonomous WorkPod Backyard Home Office What is Good about Office Pods?

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Could ‘smart’ building facades heat and cool buildings?

From Timeless Materials to High-Tech Hybrids: A New Era in Architecture and Construction

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Designing for personal technology is crucial for senior living facilities

Cutting-Edge Innovations in Wood-Frame Construction

Smart building technology: Talking results at the BUILDINGChicago/ Greening the Heartland show

Competitions: The 1st STELSI International Metaverse Architecture Competition

Sustainable Architecture: How Green Building Practices are Reshaping the Industry

KAAN Architecten and LOW Architecten to renovate the headquarters of the National Bank of Belgium

Construction reaches roof levels of landmark development above Hong Kong’s High Speed Rail West Kowloon Terminus by Zaha Hadid Architects

150 Holborn Building, Dar Group London HQ

Ecole Primaire Santiguyah Enhances Access to High-Quality Education in Rural Areas of Guinea

The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels

Competitions: Project Orellio

100 Women to Watch in Architecture

30 Best Architecture Firms in Australia

BEEAH Group’s new headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects

Does Smart Technology Make Us Less Resilient?

BEEAH Headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects

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