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The value of green building and its spillover effects
A Georgia Tech prof asks: What motivates owners to build and certify green buildings? Do they provide real benefits for designers, builders or the construction industry as a whole?... Read more
Good news, bad effects and awful truth about the solar tariff
President Trump's 30 percent tariff on imported solar panels and modules is already in affect. An industry leader breaks down the impact its likely to have solar deployment nationwide.... Read more
How to design sustainability into an architectural practice
In most cases, it’s clients who drive the ambitions of deep-green buildings. But how can architectural firms lay the groundwork for more projects that push the boundaries of sustainability?... Read more
Hard to fit biophilic design on a checklist
Increasingly, green building project teams have attempted to incorporate biophilic design into their projects, but often their efforts amount to adding trees and plants or water features to their buildings. Read this excerpt from Creating Biophilic Buildings by Amanda Sturgeon.... Read more
The hidden power of equity in sustainable buildings
Over the past decade, it’s become apparent that buildings both function better, and better serve the people who use them, if social values such as health impacts, diversity and equal access are taken into account.... Read more
EcoDistricts CEO: Too much at stake not to reshape cities
If we are to succeed in creating a new roadmap for cities and neighborhoods, we must change the culture of development to give the community a dominant voice in shaping its own destiny. ... Read more
A campaign designed to link equity and clean energy
A growing movement aims to make sure that all Georgians – urban and rural, rich and poor, black and white – benefit from the just transition to clean energy that is already underway across the country and around the world.... Read more
Time to second guess our drive to create second natures
"Sustainability can’t be placed on autopilot.," warns architect Michael Gamble. We must "reach beyond the illusion of technology and technique into a deeper systemic thinking about the impact of the second nature we create."... Read more
Living Building alters Georgia Tech approach to design
Every campus is traveling its own sustainability journey. Top Georgia Tech architect Howard S. Wertheimer says the campus' Living Building project already has transformed his campus' design process. ... Read more
Will Georgia Tech Living Building be a keystone for change?
Keystone species are necessary for natural communities to thrive. Living Building Challenge founder Jason F. McLennan argues that keystone buildings are needed to help reform design and construction.... Read more