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Your In-Depth Guide to the New A+Award Categories for Best Sustainable Architecture

Architizer

Now open for entries, the 11th Annual A+Awards highlights the program’s renewed commitment to sustainable design. Enter the A+Sustainability Awards , a new suite of A+Award categories dedicated to projects that act as positive precedent for green building practices in specific regions and the wider world. Sustainable Private House.

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How to Streamline Commercial Waste Disposal Costs: Expert Tips for Reducing Expenses

The Architecture Designs

Commercial waste disposal is a complex process that requires careful planning and execution to ensure compliance with regulations and minimize costs. Waste is transported to a landfill site, where it is buried and left to decompose. It includes various types of waste such as hazardous waste, industrial waste, and municipal solid waste.

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12 Ways Driving Is Subsidized by Law

A Better Built Environment

We should all be working towards finding a way to make our country safer for pedestrians, bikers, transit riders, and adapt our laws to focus on safety, health, and encourage sustainable transport.

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Insights: What do different engineers do, and when do I hire one?

Matt Fajkus Architecture

Civil Engineers Civil engineers mostly deal with land and water surrounding construction, but can also get involved in urban projects such as utilities, transportation, waste, and bridge design. Usually if you hire a civil or structural engineer, they will contract a geotechnical engineer only if the project necessitates one.

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Weed Whackers

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) recently used goats to help with habitat restoration on a sensitive site. I wasn’t sure how the public was going to respond, but they were enthusiastic that Caltrans is using a sustainable approach to removing nonnative plants,” Brown says. And the goats are cute—really cute.”.

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Winners announced for “The Tiny House 2023 Architecture Competition”

aasarchitecture

The Tiny House competition looked to celebrate individuality and sustainability through innovative designs redefining resourceful living. It can collapse into an extremely space-saving set of components and ropes during transportation, adapting to various environments. A solar chimney facilitates both winter and summer climate control.

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Roundtable: what materials matter in hotel design

Hotel Designs

Discussion covered questions of material innovation and development, notions of luxury, locality and sustainability within the shifting boundaries of hospitality – all in the process of getting a better understanding on where this path is leading design, or is it where design is leading the development of materials?