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How Green Are Smart Cities, and How Smart Are Green Cities?

Architizer

How smart and green a city is can be determined by environmental initiatives, progressive urban planning, infrastructure with technology at its core and the availability of IoT-monitored resources for people working and living in the city. Right: Smart City Illustration. Image by Moondance via Pixabay.

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From smart cities to energy management, Light + Building Autumn Edition 2022 will focus on the future

Building and Interiors

The advancement of sustainable energy generation, the reduction of consumption in smart buildings, and the growth of electromobility are key components to a complete energy turnaround by 2030. At Light + Building, concepts for the networked and intelligent city of the future – the smart city – already exist.

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Checking in to Meliá Frankfurt City – a hotel that means business

Hotel Designs

Preconceptions are indeed there to be challenged, which is exactly what Meliá Frankfurt City – a 431-key hotel that unapologetically really means business – did in 2021, when it arrived to join some of its relatives in Germany’s fifth largest city, with effortless style. It just requires a meaningful hook.

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The Weekly show: Building optimization tech, the future of smart cities, and storm shelter design

BD+C

Smart building analytics and building optimization tools. • The future of smart cities. This week on The Weekly show, BD+C editors spoke with leaders from BR Architects, DLR Group, and Thomas Jefferson University about three timely trends: . Community storm shelter design. WATCH THE SEGMENTS ON DEMAND BELOW .

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Event: Tomorrow. Building World Congress 2023 (TBWC23)

Bustler

Event Date: Nov 7, 2023 - Nov 9, 2023; Event City: Barcelona, ES The Tomorrow. Building World Congress 2023 is a global event that aims to empower the green and digital transition of buildings and urban infrastructures. link] Read the full post on Bustler

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2018 Energy Efficiency Indicator survey: More than half of global organizations plan to increase energy efficiency spending in next 12 months

BD+C

Today, Johnson Controls, a global leader in creating smart cities, unveiled the findings from its 2018 Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) survey, revealing that U.S.

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ZHA to build new Harbourside Cultural District in Sanya

e-architect

Render by Brick Visual Situated on the southern tip of Hainan Island, China’s most southerly province with its tropical forests, mountain parks and white sand beaches welcoming over 80 million tourists each year, Sanya has grown to a city of over a million residents. Render by Negativ With a total of 409,000 sq.