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7 Earth Day questions about green buildings & COVID-19
COVID-19 has upended just about everything in our lives.. Will it change the way we design, build and operate green buildings?
Q&A with Dr. Stephanie Taylor: Covid crisis cries for higher humidity in buildings
Pediatric oncologist and architect Stephanie Taylor has warned for years about low humidity rates in buildings. Now, she says, the covid-19 pandemic has made her cause more urgent.
K.C. Gauldine to serve as ILFI’s interim CEO
The International Living Future Institute has named Seattle leadership consultant K.C. Gauldine as its interim CEO while the nonprofit’s board continue to search for a permanent leader.
Living Future ’20 announces virtual plans
Living Future 2020 is the latest green-building event to pivot this year to alternate plan.
Bill Walsh: Covid-19 highlights importance of equity in safe building materials
The Healthy Building Network founder Bill Walsh stresses in this Q&A that covid-19 and toxic materials both present inordinate risks to disadvantaged people
Q&A: Perkins+Will’s Mary Dickinson on covid-19, resilience and buildings
In the second in a series of Q&A’s on covid-19 and building Perkins+Will’s Mary Dickinson offers her early take on how architectural design will change in the new viral era.
ASHRAE panel takes on short-term, long-term threats of covid-19 in buildings
A new industry task force already is suggesting updated practices for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning to protect patients and healthcare workers amid the covid-19 pandemic. And the panel soon will move on to the broader challenge of revising standards to limit the spread of viruses in all types of buildings.
Covid & Buildings Q&A: HKS’ Upali Nanda sees an end to ‘single-sector’ buildings
The research director at HKS expects mixed uses, flexible spaces and non-traditional work arrangements to rise as architects rethink buildings in a viral age.
WELL task force to consider how healthy buildings can meet covid-like threats
The International WELL Building Institute is wasting no time in pivoting the WELL building standard in the direction of covid-19 and similar threats.
POSTPONED: A lawyer and an architect walk into the Kendeda Building …
Architect Joshua Gassman and lawyer Seth Gassman team up this week for a “transdisciplinary discussion” on “Climate Change, Buildings and Law.”