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 Creating the Sustainable Office: Conception to CompletionLara Conaway, Sustainability Manager at office transformation specialists Morgan Lovell, will be speaking at the first Sustainable FM Academy, taking place at this year's Facilities Show.The Academy combines a series of presentations and debates designed to instigate thought and action on both waste management and energy in buildings. At the event, Lara will cover the challenges, together with the easy wins, when creating a sustainable office refurbishment, and explore how to carry out a green office fit out within a typically designed 1960s multi-tenanted building. She will also focus on a case study involving Morgan Lovell's own sustainable office design and fit out at its London headquarters, which has achieved the highest BREEAM rating for an office refurbishment project to date in the UK. Entitled "Creating the Sustainable Office - Conception to Completion," Lara's seminar takes place on Thursday, May 15 at 12.30pm. The Facilities Show runs at the NEC in Birmingham from 13 to15 May. event (ended) current design events more info www.the... (111) design directory Morgan Lovell > Interior Design Companies added by Levent OZLER |
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 Code Would Force More Green Building Designs in HoustonHouston builders will have to incorporate "green" design techniques such as heat-trapping vestibules and "cool roofs" that deflect sunlight under a proposed new energy code for commercial buildings.The City Council could pass the new code for commercial buildings today. A new residential code also is being developed and could come before the council next month. Houston adopted its first energy codes in 2002 in response to a state mandate. This would be the first update, and it is decidedly more "green" than its predecessor. more www.chr... (233) added by Levent OZLER |
 Perkins+Will Named Winner of the 5th Sustainabile Leadership AwardPerkins+Will, a global integrated design firm, will receive the 5th Annual CoreNet Global, AIA, and IIDA Sustainable Leadership Award for Sustainable Development at the CoreNet summit meeting on May 6, 2008, in San Diego.CoreNet Global is the world's leading professional association for corporate real estate and workplace executives, serving leading multinational companies from the Fortune and Global 1000. The Sustainable Leadership Award recognizes firms that lead by example, making sustainable design and development a cornerstone of business practice. With over 90 percent of management staff and 77 percent of all professional staff LEED accredited, Perkins+Will has more than 750 LEED Accredited Professionals-more than any other firm in the world. The firm currently has 22 LEED certified projects and more than 80 LEED registered. In 2007, Perkins+Will became the first multi-office company to commit to the 2030 Challenge, in which the firm has pledged that all of its projects be designed for carbon neutrality by the year 2030. To further enforce green initiatives within the work environment as well as outside, Perkins+Will's Sustainable Design Initiative and Green Operations Plan are used as guides to ensure that facilities and day-to-day operations continue to be environmentally responsible. more Perkins+Will Named Winner of the 5th Sustainabile Leadership Award design directory Perkins+Will > Architecture Companies added by Levent OZLER |
 REGREEN Highlights Sustainable Spaces for New Best Practices GuidelinesSustainable Spaces, a leading specialist in the growing field of home performance contracting and systems engineering, today announced that REGREEN, a best practices guidelines manual for green remodeling, has highlighted the company's approach to remediating home performance by including an in-depth home performance case study in their recent guidelines.REGREEN is a partnership between the American Society of Interior Designers' Foundation (ASID) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). "Green homes are healthier places to live, are better for the environment and save money," said Linda Sorrento, Director, Education & Resource Partnerships for the U.S. Green Building Council. "The REGREEN guidelines are an immediate and measurable way that individuals and homeowners can make a difference in the environment." "Home performance evaluation and remediation is the science of evaluating the 'performance' of the entire home. We look at how each component -- energy, windows, appliances, heating and ventilation -- interrelates in a systemic way to measure energy efficiency, air quality and comfort," said Sustainable Spaces founder Matt Golden. "Through multiple steps, Sustainable Spaces works with homeowners to audit, measure, fix, re-measure and continuously monitor the home performance of our clients. By doing this we are able to provide a complete and reasonable solution that goes to the heart of poor home performance." more REGREEN Highlights Sustainable Spaces for New Best Practices Guidelines added by Levent OZLER |
 Architecture II: Design to RealityThis semester, Assistant Professor of Art Elijah Huge's Architecture II class is trying something new.Not only is the class researching and designing a project for an outside client, but the students are also building this project. "We have so much to deal with," said class member Angus McCullough '10. "But I think we are going to make it happen. We know of one other undergrad architecture program that is designing something of this scope...designing it all the way down to the nuts and bolts." more www.wes... (305) added by Levent OZLER |
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