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Colorado Springs will soon be home to its first certified Passive House. Using prefabricated panels, this home will be incredibly energy efficient and airtight, which can slow the spread of fires. (From @rmpbs)
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Colorado Springs will soon be home to its first certified Passive House. Using prefabricated panels, this home will be incredibly energy efficient and airtight, which can slow the spread of fires.
rmpbs.org/blogs/rocky-mounta…
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Watch this! Fantastic project featured on @rmpbs from @PassiveHouseBB @hyperlocalarch @Invermerebuildr rmpbs.org/blogs/rocky-mounta…
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Join me next Tuesday to chat about why every building needs a plan to adapt to climate change, and how the Stepwise EnerPHit program can help owners plan ahead. Online Dec 7 at 9am Pacific, Noon Eastern. @RDHBuildings @the_phnetwork @the_iPHA @PassiveHouseCan @PHAccelerator – at Vancouver, British Columbia
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Hyperlocal Workshop retweeted
was fun (and fascinating!) to report out this feature on the future of restaurant design. something the pandemic taught us is that flexible, accommodating design goes a long way. but universal design has been preaching that for a while:
eater.com/22696498/restauran…
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BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2021 #NobelPrize in Physics to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”
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Architects design a Senegalese hotel resort built around the local baobab trees trib.al/etnuCl8
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The question of which cities and regions will be able to adapt to new extreme heat are part of the hard math of climate change trib.al/OMvryf4
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Whenever I get asked for my vision for future cities at #Smartcity conferences they expect me to say Technology. However , I always say walking. #Walkability is the most important ingredient for liveable cities. #Tech must serve the city, not the other way round.
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How the Climate Crisis Will Force A Massive American Migration
youtube.com/watch?v=pWu_-duW…
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Temporal.haus from @AndrewMichler is at the Venice Biennale, demonstrating how to house climate refugees with straw and special CLT. It’s #passivhaus and low carbon treehugger.com/temporal-haus…
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Time to start measuring #EmbodiedCarbon in all buildings
“Fewer than 1% of building projects currently calculate and report their full carbon footprint”
theconstructionindex.co.uk/n…
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"Passive House buildings use far less energy than typical multifamily buildings. These results translate into operational cost savings that can increase access to private debt and may also decrease reliance on public
subsidies...." @BEExNY
be-exchange.org/report/multi…
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Borderless House / Haryu Wood Studio + Selma Masic dlvr.it/RrzBlB
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We store 97.6 kg CO2 per m2 in prefabricated straw panels. Using just 25% of the 140 million tons of straw produced annually in North America, we could build 800 million m2 of highly insulated wall surface each year. That corresponds to 78 billion kg of CO2 sequestered annually.
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With a relaxed approach to zoning, Tokyo allows new construction on its outskirts across urban/rural land. A family decided to build a cedar "maze-home" to transition from an economy-based into an ecology-based lifestyle. Watch the video by @kirstendirksen faircompanies.com/videos/tok…
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The designers of the @Bullitt_Center in Seattle wanted to build a staircase that people would be more likely to use. So they made the stairs appealing and prominent. Now, they say, 2/3 of people going to the top floor choose the “irresistible staircase.”
apple.co/2D5k8v3
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What happens to the serendipity of urban life when “Placemaking” is reduced to a set of corporate formulas? My column: bit.ly/2sKWJwR