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Living Building project caps Gulf State Park sustainable makeover
Pop-quiz: In September, what U.S. state became the first to open a building designed to meet the world’s most stringent green building standard? The answer will surprise you.
A short glossary to structural timber construction
Wood’s low embodied carbon content has benighted it as the structural material of choice for green buildings. Here’s a quick cheat sheet to help navigate the modern realm of structural timber.
Ramana Koti on USGBC Regenerative Summit
What’s the biggest barrier to regenerative design? One survey at a recent summit on the topic points to lack of awareness, Lord Aeck Sargent’s Ramana Koti reports.
Kelly Roberts preaches urgency in solving embodied carbon problem
If you hear Kelly Roberts speak about whole building lifecycle analysis, you’ll know she’s passionate about the urgency of a specific problem: We had better reduce the embodied carbon in new buildings. And we’d better do that soon.
A Q&A with the Kendeda Building director — before there’s even a building
Three months after he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as director of the Kendeda Building for Sustainable Innovative, Design, we caught up with Shan Arora to find out what it’s like to serve as director of building that doesn’t actually exist yet.
ILFI’s Trim Tab features 4 articles on Living Building projects in the Southeast
Trim Tab — the online ‘zine of International Living Future Institute — is chock full of articles this month that should interest sustainable design and construction professionals in the Southeast.
IPCC: Buildings must play big role in climate reversal
Today’s IPCC report on climate change is truly sobering. But it also lays out how the building sector would have to play a role in any route out of this mess.
Kendeda Building accepts Better Buildings Challenge Award
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms dropped in last week to help the Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge present the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design with its annual Game Changer Award.
Oct. 18 workshop for net positive projects in Southeast
Georgia Tech hosts a daylong International Living Future Institute workshop Oct. 18 to explore the how the world’s most rigorous green building certification platform plays out in a hot, humid climate like the Southeast’s.
Rethinking thermal comfort for a green building era
Many architects and engineers now admit that they’ve been designing overly conditioned indoor spaces for decades. Maybe, it’s taken a while to get all the complexities of indoor comfort just right. Maybe, it’s just the ecstasy one feels when escaping the heat by walking into a cool building.