AGreenLiving

JANUARY 6, 2020

In the California city of West Paso Robles, architecture firm Clayton & Little has given old oil field drill stem pipes unexpected new life — as an equipment barn that offsets over 100% of the energy needs for a sustainably-minded winery. See the original post: California winery innovates with sustainable recycling creation.

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Green Technology

MARCH 20, 2023

Forum Floorplan Advisory Board Register to Attend How County Agencies Partnered to Develop a Regional Model for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Schools that Can be Taken to Scale Across California This session answers the question: How can regional agencies partner with TK-12 schools and to catalyze environmental and climate action?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 23, 2021

This individual will develop, design, and implement green stormwater infrastructure projects that prioritize vegetative practices and community benefit while being functional, constructable and maintainable. Greenprint is an environmental consulting and project development firm exclusively dedicated to green stormwater infrastructure.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Created by Dutch firm MoederscheimMoonen Architects in collaboration with construction company Vaessen B.V., Original post: Energy-neutral House of Eemnes is a sustainable culture house. the mixed-use project — named the House of Eemnes — combines a library, theater, sports facilities and a restaurant all under one roof.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

When New York-based architecture firm Archi-Tectonics won an international design competition to masterplan the Hangzhou Asian Games Park for the 2022 Asian Games — the largest international multi-sports competition after the Olympics — the architects knew from the start that their design vision would be guided by sustainable legacy use.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 14, 2020

Private college-prep high school Sonoma Academy has elevated its reputation for sustainability with its newly achieved LEED Platinum certification for the Janet Durgin Guild & Commons building, an award-winning student and education center that champions a net-zero energy approach.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Both a rain garden and bioswale retain or slow the movement of water from the property, decreasing stormwater runoff. When properly constructed, rain gardens should drain and not have standing water within 24 to 48 hours of the rain event. Rain gardens and bioswales have similar results, but vary in how they are designed and work.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 1, 2020

Seattle-based design firm Weber Thompson has completed construction on Watershed, a mixed-use development that aggressively reduces its energy and water usage compared to conventional construction of the same size. Our goal is to inspire, through design, a stronger connection to place, community, and the environment around us.”

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Located in the rapidly growing coastal city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania , the 12-unit apartment block serves as a model for sustainable urban architecture in the region. Often, sustainability efforts in Africa focus on rural regions, despite the rapid expansion of urban areas.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

Last year, the College of Forestry at Oregon State University welcomed Peavy Hall and the Advanced Wood Products Laboratory (AWP), two new mass timber buildings that serve as living laboratories for sustainable architecture. A sustainable design approach was also applied to the buildings’ operations, which are optimized for energy efficiency.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 28, 2020

MVSA Architects has dramatically breathed new life into Amsterdam’s iconic Rivierstaete — a monolithic 1973 modernist office building on the Amstel — with a sustainable and architecturally sensitive makeover that connects the building to the riverfront and surrounding community in a way unlike ever before.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 8, 2020

Completed in 2019, the refreshed headquarters has received a much-needed facelift constructed from sustainably harvested materials as well as a new addition topped with a roof garden. In addition to a sustainable renovation and expansion, the architects have introduced new energy-saving and -generating systems.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With construction earning the unwanted title of a top-ranking dirty industry, architecture focused on energy efficiency, natural materials and durability even in the face of natural disasters is a win for the environment and the home or business owner.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 14, 2020

billion project champions energy-efficient and resource-saving design, from its diversion of nearly 90% of the project’s construction waste from landfills to the installation of double-glazed, low-E windows throughout. The Hub sits on a 31,200-square-foot landscaped site specially engineered for responsible stormwater management practices.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Construction of the ferry building began with the repurposing of a waterfront brownfield site — once used for a U.S. Air Force Cold War fuel depot and pier — and eliminating approximately 10% of the Puget Sound’s remaining toxic creosote piles. LMN Architects Photography by Benjamin Benschneider via LMN Architects.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

Former Governor Jerry Brown signed an executive order in July 2015 directing state agencies to develop a sustainable freight action plan. For instance, if the building housing the stormwater pump station were to be knocked offline, the mobile battery system would not by itself be able to turn on the pumps.

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Grist

JULY 10, 2021

Lake Mead is at the lowest level it has been at since the Hoover Dam was constructed. Part of the solution, the legislators say, is to fund the construction of more facilities that can recycle the wastewater that flows out of our sinks, toilets, and showers. And the Colorado River has been in a drought for more than two decades.”.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 14, 2020

California State Polytechnic University’s (Cal Poly) Pomona campus recently welcomed a new gateway building that not only consolidates academic services, but also serves as a sustainable campus landmark. Extensive daylight, glare and solar heat-gain analysis modeling informed the roof’s orientation and design.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 30, 2020

All of the buildings were constructed with warm, natural materials such as wood and integrally colored concrete; durable ipe wood siding clads much of the exterior. City Halls have evolved into being much more than places representing civic gravitas,” noted Mike Jobes, design principal for the project.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 8, 2022

That led me to Elemental, where I focus on elevating both new technologies as well as the wisdom of frontline communities through sustainable business models that can grow into mainstream solutions. but because they can create a sustainable business that provides a financial return and a beneficial impact on our people and planet.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 3, 2021

Sometimes the primary concern is how a project would affect the visual makeup of a neighborhood, while other times the priority becomes safety around stormwater runoff and management. These policies should include incentives that help offset the higher construction and operating costs that are needed.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 7, 2021

billion infrastructure construction program currently in its first 10-year phase. While all this planning and construction is on-going, the facility is in continuous operation, serving 1.4 Sustainability and Compliance Division (SCD). Check out CIP’s website for more information on the $1.4 Watershed Protection Division (WSP).

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2021

When Portland-based Skylab Architecture was asked by the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services to design an extension of a wastewater treatment facility, sustainability was immediately identified as a key priority. View post: LEED Gold Columbia Building cleans stormwater runoff with green roofs.

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Green Roof Technology

APRIL 13, 2019

Against any semi scientific promotional material from Mineral Wool applicators, the market share of mineral wool in the German Green Roof construction industry is around 0.1% or out of 100 million square foot new green roof construction every year (Germany) it is only around 100,000 sf/year. By Jörg Breuning.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The groundbreaking for the transformative project will take place in spring 2021 and construction is expected to reach completion in 2024. The $150 million project also aims to repair the site’s damaged ecology and hydrology using environmentally responsible practices.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. The market has changed from seeing sustainability as an amenity to sell to being something that is actually about risk management," said Breana Wheeler, director of U.S.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The city of Miami is focused on prevention first, through industrial solutions; construction, installation, and the erection of barriers. inches of runoff water, according to the project specs from the Florida Stormwater Associations 2018 Winter Conference. September 2019 marked the first addition of a “bioswale” to the city’s roads.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For this purpose, the EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive can help reduce microplastics pollution by investing in wastewater treatment plants and stormwater management systems. The EU Water Framework Directive set ambitious targets for reducing pollution in water bodies, prompting companies to invest in improved treatment technologies.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

-based Hewitt Studios has given a stunning makeover to Morgan Motor Company’s aging café, museum and showroom with the new Experience Centre, a prefabricated visitor center made from sustainably sourced timber. Here is the original: Prefab Morgan Motor Company Experience Centre uses sustainable timber.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 3, 2021

This project will re-design the entire Porta Romana district and create a new, sustainable urban community. Stormwater will be collected and reused to provide drinking water and water for heating and cooling. Construction on the new Olympic Village will be complete by July 2025. + Related: Those Olympic anti-sex beds?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Located 100 kilometers from Beijing, the Lakeside Plugin Tower was developed as a model prototype for a city concept using sustainable, net-zero design principles. The prefabricated process serves to both reduce costs and make construction more efficient. Continued here:Â .

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

However, sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) now feature in many new developments and these initiatives help to slow the flow. The construction of a deep storage and conveyance (4.3 Infrastructure development in London includes new commercial and residential properties, as well as car parks, roads and paths. They are: 1.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Can we look forward to any other exciting sustainability projects in the future? The Shared Public Way at Mission Rock will be a dynamic space with street rooms, stormwater gardens and tree groves that will create a lively and unique environment. Inhabitat: What’s next for you? Perkins and Will Images via Perkins and Will.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In Hawaiʻi, some advocates are exploring the possibility of a zoning category for “traditional lands” that would support sustainable housing communities along with culturally rooted farming and fishing. With dam failures and overflows from combined sewer and stormwater systems common, there’s more work to do. Some go even further.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

We are proud to introduce our fifth annual cohort of twentysomethings who are sustainability leaders within — and without — their companies, nonprofits and communities. Grateful appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for helping us spread the word.

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