Archive for March, 2010

Based on the concepts known from Ecotect Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 enables you to simulate the sun path, in order to better understand the impact of the sun in relation to your project and its surrounding context. The sun path is a visual representation of the sun’s range of movement across the sky at the [...]

Amory Lovins, Chief Scientist at Rocky Mountain Institute, gave a five part lecture series titled “Advanced Energy Efficiency: Concepts and Practice” at Stanford University in March 2007. Lecture topics included: Buildings, Industry, Transportation, Implementation, and Implications. The streaming video below shows the lecture on buildings. Click here to downlad a PDF of the presentaiton slides. [...]

There is a major battle going on in the woods, in the courts and in the halls of the US Green Building Council, as the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) tries to get LEED changed to accept their certification. … (read more here from treehugger.com)

Architect Neri Oxman is the polymath MIT Media Lab fellow who graced the cover of the fastcompany Most Creative People issue for her work tearing down the traditional walls in architecture and engineering. Here she discusses her notion of a new design mindset that is performance-focused and indifferent to disciplinary boundaries. She is the founder [...]

“We’re thrilled this month to be joined by Scot Horst SR. VP of LEED at the USGBC and Jason McLennan CEO of Cascadia and leader of the Living Building Challenge. We decided to break our discussion into two parts (look for part two next week) in part one we outline the complimentary missions of the [...]

The American Institute of Architects has issued a statement endorsing open standards and encouraging its members to take an active role in adopting it. “The AIA believes that all industry-supporting software must facilitate, not inhibit, project planning, design, construction, commissioning and lifecycle management. This software must support non-proprietary open standards for auditable information exchange and [...]

Leading companies in the construction and real estate industry in Norway have chosen the BREEAM system as a starting point for the Norwegian environmental classification of buildings. This was choosen over LEED which was also considered as a role model. Read this news article translated from Norwegian …





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