Community Architect Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The buildings are quite green: They are scheduled to receive LEED Platinum certification for rainwater recycling, operable windows on all floors, bicycle parking, plenty of EV charging stations, some mass timber construction and a massive off site solar farm that is offsetting the large electric load the fully electrified building generates.

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Community Architect

JUNE 10, 2021

This is why this sequel addresses the materials and "embodied carbon". Engineered lumber, specifically cross laminated timber (CLT) is rapidly positioning itself as the "green" kid on the block that can replace concrete and steel in many cases. Source: Carbon Leadership Forum As noted in the first article, setting goals is easy.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

One of the questions that I would have expected to receive (but not anymore because I am answering it now) was: “Why did the model have to be so large? The massing reminds me of City Beautiful architecture in the 1920′s. And this is a really great blog.:) People can be so distant from reality. That is fantastic!…

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A Better Built Environment

MARCH 22, 2021

It is a reason why I lost some passion for the profession and focused my interest in other areas. Others, like my wife, took their architecture skills into a tangentially related jobs (she is helping start a factory to fabricate mass timber building components).

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