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Kendeda Building cooling system rotates to a great extent around Big Ass fans
Sixty-two technologically sophisticated Big Ass Fans will play a big role in cooling the Kendeda Building.
How urban landscapes can become more fruitful
Georgia Organics CEO Alice Rolls has been slipping away from her office to raid a blueberry bush. A new report from her organization identifies how to clear key obstacles to edible landscapes in her home city of Atlanta.
Urban agriculture for Kendeda Building features foraging plants and honey
As early as next spring, visitors to the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design should be able to enjoy fruit with very little labor. But they’ll have to wait a while for the sweetest of harvests.
CarbonCure cracks cement’s enormous emissions problem
It’s easy to see why CarbonCure, a Canadian startup tackling the sky high emissions of carbon by the cement industry, is a global darling for the green building materials sector.
Q&A: CarbonCure’s Rob Niven plans to ‘expand portfolio of technologies’
Rob Niven began to study concrete’s carbon problem as an engineering student at McGill University in Montreal in the early 2000s. Today, his rapidly growing company provides one of the most promising processes for reducing embodied carbon from buildings.
Architects have gotten serious about operational carbon — what’s next?
As the AIA takes a stand on climate change, Ramana Koti says there’s reason to be optimistic that buildings can be designed to operate without releasing carbon.
Petal project at Vanderbilt expands Living Building foothold in Southeast
The second Living Building Challenge project on a college campus in the Southeast is well underway but still half a year from completion.
CBS 46 on the Kendeda Building nearing completion
CBS 46 airs a piece from reporter Sally Sears on the Kendeda Building. I’m impressed at how many of the top-lines she managed to capture in two-and-half minutes.