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Competitions: Open International Urban Planning Competition for The "New Kharkhorum" City of Mongolia

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This project provides an exceptional opportunity for everyone to contribute innovative ideas to the city's development. This ambitious project aims to convert the city into a sustainable metropolis that will serve as a model for the world. We encourage you to submit your project proposals to be considered for this exciting project.

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Kendeda Building: A Model of Sustainable Design by The Miller Hull Partnership

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The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design – The Kendeda Building was created to foster environmental education, research, and a public forum for community outreach. As the first Living Building of its kind in the Southeast US, the project sets a new standard for sustainability. Budget: 10M – 50M.

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Floating landscape infrastructure wins top ASCE innovation prize

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A sustainable, climate-change-resilient floating landscape infrastructure took the top prize of the American Society of Civil Engineer ’s latest Innovation Contest.

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Personal Sustainability

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Many are familiar with sustainability in the context of being as environmentally conscious as possible: getting our LEED points and being responsible stewards of the environment. While this concept is extremely important, there is another facet of sustainability that is also important: personal sustainability. It was too much.

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New concrete vaulted floor suggests path to cutting carbon emissions

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The multidisciplinary team has completed a full-scale demo of the floor, built inside a Cambridge University Civil Engineering Department facility, and hopes the innovation will be adopted by the construction industry to reduce its carbon emissions. Flooring innovation makes use of concrete's strengths.

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Ecole des Ponts' Digital Building Design course prepares professionals for "high-level positions"

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Bringing together different fields such as physics, mathematics, design and art, they provide designers with methods and tools that allow them to go beyond traditional approaches and generate an innovative vision of the various issues encountered during their projects." "The Images courtesy of Charlène Yves, École des Ponts ParisTech.

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Google opens New York headquarters built on renovated 1930s train terminal

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The interior is centred around creating flexible, communal workspaces "Exposed rail beds along the northern facade nod to this history, while the sustainable design and innovative workspaces are focused on the future," said the team. "At Site developer: Oxford Properties Architect of record : Adamson Associates, P.C.