While the most urgent challenge now facing the global community is stopping the spread of COVID-19 and mitigating its impacts, the race to fight climate change continues.
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The Language of Carbon: A Glossary of Terms
Seventeen terms that will help you talk the talk of carbon positive design.
Read MoreEight Questions You’ll Hear When Proposing Zero-Carbon Design
And, more importantly, tried-and-true responses from seasoned experts who have fielded these FAQS.
Read MoreConcrete, Steel, or Wood: Searching for Zero-Net-Carbon Structural Materials
Steel and concrete predominate the U.S. commercial building market for structural materials, while engineered wood—specifically mass timber—is garnering attention for its potential embodied carbon savings and sequestration ability.
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Architecture’s Carbon Problem
Architects create about 40 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, but they can also help to solve the climate crisis.
Read MoreThe Future of Resilience & Sustainability
Content used with permission from WIRED Magazine. In 2012, as Hurricane Sandy battered the east coast, Diane Hellriegel made the most difficult decision of her life—to abandon her home in Breezy Point, New York. “My father built that house,” she says. “It was heartbreaking. I didn’t know what I was going to do.” In the… Read more »
Read MoreDesigning a Coastal City
Content used with permission from WIRED Magazine. Robin Seidel, an architect working to save Boston from rising seawater, survived her first flood as a child. “I was nine years old when the police knocked on our door, telling us to evacuate because the Susquehanna River was breaching its banks,” she recalls. “I was scared. We… Read more »
Read MoreDesign Tools to Help Stop Climate Change
In 2008, architect Larry Strain, FAIA, was part of a team designing a town center in Portola Valley, California, when he conducted a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and made a surprising discovery—embodied carbon accounted for half the carbon emissions from his project. “At the time, buildings were getting more efficient, so I’d started to pay… Read more »
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