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Solar carports can help with California’s Title 24 mandates

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Solar carports , virtual net-metering software, and tax-enabled financing can help apartment builders and owners meet California’s new Title 24 mandates. New homes must produce more energy than they use by 2020; new commercial buildings must become net-zero by 2030. Starting Jan.

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Why All Architects Should Tackle an Adaptive Reuse Project At Least Once in their Careers

Architizer

As these types of transactions often qualify for tax benefits and alternative financing sources, architects undertaking such projects also often grow their knowledge in financial areas. On average , adapting a pre-existing structure costs 16 percent less than ground-up construction and reduces construction timelines by 18 percent.

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Mya and The Shop SLC, Salt Lake City, Utah

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photo © Tim Hursley Deal Structure Mya had a unique finance capital stack defined by deferred development fees, tax exempt bonds, and housing tax credits equity. A standalone ground-up commercial project with no direct subsidies like The Shop would have been challenging to finance on its own.

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HOK Architects: Architecture Office News

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Today, we are focusing on the well-being of the people who occupy the space and to the business success of our clients, and are on track to achieve a carbon-neutral design portfolio by 2030.” They also are leaders in areas including diversity and staff retention, and all have signed the AIA 2030 Commitment.

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Sustainable Architecture Can’t Save the Planet. Change My Mind.

Architizer

This is an optimistic goal considering it requires a 45% drop in emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050. According to CDP research The Time to Green Finance , portfolio-related emissions — tied to what institutions invest in, rather than what they ‘do’ at HQ — are estimated to be 700 times higher than official industry figures suggest.

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Going Solar: The Rays That Pay

Community Architect

Commercial asset managers working for shareholders and investors have to also worry about their standing on E nvironmental, S ocial and G overnance (ESG) metric which investors increasingly use to rate companies. PV modules that will feed commercial grade, 480V 3-phase grid-tie inverters. For them there are several other options.

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Density - Dirty Word or Solution?

Community Architect Daily

By contrast, the commercial corridors of suburban communities show clear signs of ailing. At the same time changing shopping habits, work from home have made many of the older commercial strips that line arterial roadways in the suburbs all across America obsolete, underutilized or lying entirely fallow.

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