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

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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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HOK Architects: Architecture Office News

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His tenure saw HOK win hundreds of design awards, strengthen its commitment to sustainable and regenerative design, open three new offices, diversify its leadership, and increase its pro-bono work and charitable giving. AIA, LEED AP BD+C, HOK’s director of sustainable design.

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Mya and The Shop SLC, Salt Lake City, Utah

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This approach provided sustainable community development, delivering affordable living in a high demand downtown area with a level of amenities and services typically found only in other market price points. 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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Sustainable Architecture Can’t Save the Planet. Change My Mind.

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This is an optimistic goal considering it requires a 45% drop in emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050. According to Reuters and Honeywell’s report, The Growing Importance of Sustainability in Buildings , nine in 10 organizations see their property portfolio reaching net zero as extremely (57%) or somewhat (29%) important.

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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. For a fossil free sustainable project the responsibilities shift and expand. For them there are several other options.

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Density - Dirty Word or Solution?

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By contrast, the commercial corridors of suburban communities show clear signs of ailing. The current course is not sustainable. Hope and improvement is especially bright in the commercial zones where failing malls and their giant parking lots have been repurposed for denser mixed use. We have a supply and demand problem.

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Is Density a Dirty Word or a Solution?

Community Architect

By contrast, the commercial corridors of suburban communities show clear signs of ailing. The current course is not sustainable. Hope and improvement is especially bright in the commercial zones where failing malls and their giant parking lots have been repurposed for denser mixed use. We have a supply and demand problem.

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