Archinect

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The firm shares that an estimate of only 25% of buildings (from Gensler's original assessment) are suitable for conversion. Paynter and his team now report that conversion is "an unprecedented opportunity to create new residential stock quickly, sustainably, and at a 30% lower cost than new construction."

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

These centers provide essential services, from maps and local advice to promoting sustainable travel. According to the World Tourism Organization ( UNWTO ), Europe welcomed an estimated 585 million international tourists in 2023, underscoring the importance of efficient, localized visitor support.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

119 high-rise apartment buildings have sustained significant damage, as have 1,483 private homes, resulting in 16,358 residents being left homeless. City officials estimate the cost of completely rebuilding Irpin to be over $1 billion.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The World Cement Association has predicted that global demand for cement and clinker will decrease more than previously expected by 2050 due to changing market trends and sustainable material advancements. billion tonnes per annum in 2020 to an estimated 1.8 billion tonnes per year to three billion per year between now and 2050.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 14, 2023

© SCHOTT CERAN The world is increasingly electric, from our cars to our homes, making our lives more efficient and sustainable. Department of Energy estimates 15% of energy consumption in the average American home happens in the kitchen between cooking, refrigeration, hot water heating, and dishwashing.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2025

A team of Virginia Tech researchers have developed the Sustainable Art Painting toolkit for kids, which converts food scraps generated by US schools into watercolour paint. Instead of treating these scraps as trash, we saw them as an untapped source of natural pigments," it continued. "By

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2025

They are also estimated to be 10 times more efficient at energy collection than photovoltaic panels on Earth. Once in place, this one-kilometre-wide solar array is expected to harvest as much energy in a year as the total quantity of oil that can be extracted from the Earth, reported Sustainability Magazine.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Army Corps estimates construction on the $52 billion project would begin in 2030 and be complete by 2044. The project must be first approved by federal, state and local officials and funded before any of the work can start.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Aiming to quickly and sustainably transport people around the city, the tunnel will have electric vehicles that travel in a set looped path at speeds up to 100 miles per hour. @boringcompany would like to thank The Crown Prince of Dubai @HamdanMohammed and the Chairman of the RTA.

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Archinect

JULY 20, 2023

CTBUH CEO Javier Quintana de Una explained: “This year’s lifetime achievement awardees represent some of the most vibrant minds in the field of sustainable vertical urbanism. We look forward to honoring their enduring commitment to these estimable undertakings in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur." Willis (recipient of t.

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Deezen

APRIL 15, 2025

CO2 could be captured at the source from a cement plant, injected into electrochemical reactors built nearby, and turned into a sustainable construction material."We Other scientific approaches to making concrete more sustainable include research at the University of Colorado that uses algae in its production.

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Design Thoughts Architects

JANUARY 19, 2022

10 Best Criteria to Know the Estimation of Your Dream House. Before you start building your house, you should estimate some important elements like affordability, land availability, legal formalities, location, house construction cost, and time till you put the final brick in the wall. CARPET AREA + WALL AREA = BUILT UP AREA.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2022

"The emphasis on personal responsibility when it comes to sustainability is big," said Steinhage. These people might not be able to make sustainability a personal priority, even if they wanted to," she continued. "If If we want to realise a more sustainable future, being sustainable should be accessible to everyone.".

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Deezen

JUNE 25, 2024

In every aspect of its design, the building responds to COA's ambitious goals for sustainability, from macro issues of siting, massing and systems' design to micro issues of material selection and detailing," the architectural studio said.

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Archinect

JANUARY 25, 2022

Italy’s financial center is taking cues from Silicon Valley to transform an area more than twice the size of the Vatican into a sustainable, post-pandemic technology center. An estimated value of $3.6 billion-euro ($5.1 The district will be located about 7.5 million-square-foot site.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

There are also two tanks of liquified natural gas (LNG) — a first-time fuel source for Royal Carribbean, which has called it "the cleanest fossil fuel available" and the Icon of the Seas its "most sustainable ship yet". The post World's largest cruise ship sets sail amid sustainability concerns appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Promotion: aluminium and renewable energy company Hydro is exhibiting its collaboration with designer Lars Beller Fjetland at the London Design Festival , exploring how partnerships can help make the metals industry more sustainable. On the other hand, there needs to be a market pull for companies to produce sustainably."

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BD+C

MARCH 20, 2023

3 ways prefabrication doubles as a sustainability strategy 0 qpurcell Mon, 03/20/2023 - 11:09 Modular Building Corie Baker, AIA, shares three modular Gresham Smith projects that found sustainability benefits from the use of prefabrication. Utilizing Prefabrication as a Sustainability Strategy 1.

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Architizer

APRIL 10, 2023

Unfortunately, renovation rates lag behind IPCC-estimated requirements. Current global building stock renovation rates hover around 1% annually, but the IPCC estimates that decarbonizing the built environment in time to meet climate deadlines will require retrofit rates to increase to 2.5 to 5%, and perhaps as much as 10%, annually.

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Deezen

JULY 26, 2024

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games have been billed as the most sustainable ever. While media depictions of Paris 2024 as the greenest ever Olympics are arguably overblown and some have accused the organisers of greenwashing , there can be little doubt that these games are pursuing an ambitious sustainability agenda.

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SW Oregon Architect

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The 2004 estimate of the probable construction cost exceeded $3 million, which at the time was far more than could be matched by fundraising efforts. We updated the project’s cost estimate in 2006 and once more in 2008. Alas, budget constraints loomed large. Once again, the City shelved the project. Fast forward to 2020.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

According to Euronews , an estimated 390,000 new homes are needed across the country, with Amsterdam — where renters have long been accustomed to the waiting lists for addresses within the canal ring — being particularly impacted. Sustainability is also a key aspect of VenhoevenCS’s efforts here.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Ghaith Tibi is an urban planner and sustainable development advisor with extensive experience in city planning and sustainability advisory projects in the Middle East. Ghaith and I had some time to sit down and chat at COP28 in Dubai about urban planning and decarbonization, including key principles for planning sustainable new cities.

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Deezen

JUNE 26, 2023

Over the past year, searches for sustainable fashion have grown in popularity on Pinterest. We round up 10 projects from our sustainable fashion board which feature items made from more environmentally friendly materials. The fashion industry generates an estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste every year.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It is estimated that 8% of global carbon emissions are caused by the manufacture of cement, the binding agent in concrete. The plates, of course, use the most sustainable concrete available on the market. When speaking of sustainability, so many people, in a very un-nuanced and simplistic way, talk about materials only, right?”

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Architonic

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Indeed, in the UK alone, health insurance firm Bupa estimates that 11 million post-pandemic remote workers suffer from back pain as a result of a sub-optimal work set-up. The solution is to ensure that a home workstation should offer some of the same ergonomic support as those in an office.

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Architizer

MARCH 6, 2023

According to Reuters and Honeywell’s report, The Growing Importance of Sustainability in Buildings , nine in 10 organizations see their property portfolio reaching net zero as extremely (57%) or somewhat (29%) important. Designing sustainable architecture is necessarily linked to collaborative act of building more sustainable industries.

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SW Oregon Architect

DECEMBER 5, 2021

My responsibility is to connect multiple and complex fields of knowledge and engage in multidisciplinary thinking to help the design team arrive at the most cost-effective, sustainable, and attractive design solution possible. The systems perspective is the antithesis of the silo mentality.

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Architizer

AUGUST 16, 2022

Contributing rental housing was an important social sustainability objective of the project as the West End has one of the highest proportion of renters in the city but exceedingly low vacancy rates. How important was sustainability as a design criteria as you worked on this project? . © Henriquez Partners Architects. Pendrell Gallery.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In 2008, ProRail and the Municipality of Ede set out to expand the Ede-Wageningen train station in the face of planned property development nearby, estimated to increase passenger numbers to around 25,000 passengers per day by 2030. As the most iconic element of the station’s design, the wooden roof mimics a tree canopy.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2023

Founded in 2020 by Loughborough University architecture lecturer Matyas Gutai, Water-Filled Glass (WFG) aims to use patented technology to make heavily glazed buildings significantly more sustainable. Water-Filled Glass estimates its system can reduce energy bills by around 25 per cent. "And

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 7, 2024

Some estimates project a cost of up to $1 trillion (USD). photo by April Brady / POMED, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) Architects face moral predicaments rooted in issues of social justice, environmental sustainability, and cultural preservation. Initial construction began in 2021, with a completion target of 2030.

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Deezen

JANUARY 27, 2025

Despite these concessions, the structure is estimated to store twice as much carbon dioxide as is believed to have been emitted during construction, which, according to White Arkitekter, is enough to make the building carbon negative over its lifetime. Did we get it right?

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Architizer

AUGUST 18, 2023

The changes won’t bring an end to this, but any firm that wants to do business in the economic union, no matter where their headquarters, now needs to prove sustainable sourcing of these materials and that products have not contributed to deforestation that occurred after 31st December 2020. Shor House by Measured Architecture Inc.,

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Deezen

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Line has been touted as a sustainable alternative to conventional city design. With the extreme compactness and absence of cars enabled by its high-rise, linear layout, plus the generous vegetation depicted in the renderings, The Line has been presented as a more sustainable alternative to conventional cities.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This industry-first solution offers a suite of powerful features tailored to the needs of AEC professionals: Centralized Data Repository: Access spec sheets, BIM files, visual assets, sustainability certifications, and more without juggling multiple platforms. Easy Quoting: One-click quote requests streamline cost estimation.

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RMJM Architecture

JULY 26, 2022

Estimated reading time: 5 mins Within RMJM there has always been a driving force to produce sustainable and meaningful ‘high performance buildings’. As we continue to strive for progress and transparency, we acknowledge the fundamental relationship. The post Designing with Nature: Luca Aldrighi appeared first on RMJM.

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