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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The group, which is led by the Carbon Leadership Forum, Architecture 2030, Building Transparency, the U.S. The Embodied Carbon Harmonization and Optimization (ECHO) Project is an industry effort to standarize embodied carbon reporting across carbon calculators, rating systems, and other platforms.

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Martin Flats by HASTINGS Architecture

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With rents rising15% in the past year alone and a projected 50,000-unit deficit by 2030, the city’s housing crisis shows no signs of slowing. In 2019 the Tennessee Housing Development Agency reported that over45% of Nashville, renters are housing cost-burdened: spending more than 30% of their income on housing-related expenses.

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Rutledge Flats by HASTINGS

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With rents rising15% in the past year alone and a projected 50,000-unit deficit by 2030,the city’s housing crisis shows no signs of slowing. In 2019 the Tennessee Housing Development Agency reported that over45% of Nashville, renters are housing cost-burdened: spending more than 30% of their income on housing-related expenses.

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Buro Happold pledges to eliminate embodied carbon in projects as part of SE 2050 commitment

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Engineering firm Buro Happold has become the latest signatory to the SE 2050 Commitment Program, which unites structural engineering firms behind the common goal to slash embodied carbon emissions from their projects by 2050. As structural engineers, we are more able to influence embodied carbon, so that is the focus for us.".

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Oregon Episcopal School Athletic Center by Hacker

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With a highly efficient envelope, passive cooling strategy, and minimal mechanical conditioning, this building strives for high performance, meeting the Energy Trust of Oregon-Path to Net Zero and aligning with the Architecture 2030 Challenge goals. Source by Hacker.

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Mass timber "definitely not the right way to go" says Benjamin Kromoser

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I think, really, it will be before 2030." Using wood doesn't [automatically] make a building sustainable" Kromoser leads the Institute of Green Civil Engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, which receives funding from both industry and public sector organisations.

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Houston Endowment Headquarters by Kevin Daly Architects

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Net-Zero Design The 2030 Net Zero Challenge was set as the project’s primary sustainability objective, providing an achievable and forward-thinking framework and setting a goal of carbon neutrality by 2030 through prioritizing energy-efficient planning and design.