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Designing for personal technology is crucial for senior living facilities

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Jeff Carpenter, PE, RCDD MFPRO+ Blog Senior Living Design Designers Engineers Architects Smart Buildings Today’s seniors are increasingly tech savvy. They use smartphones, smartwatches, and smart home technology, and subscribe to streaming platforms they watch on smart TVs and other connected devices.

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Smart building technology: Talking results at the BUILDINGChicago/ Greening the Heartland show

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Architects Energy-Efficient Design Green Renovation Sustainable Design and Construction Building Owner Geothermal Technology Green Specifications Sustainable Development BIM/IT Contractors Designers Building Automation Engineers Education Facility Facility Managers Events Facilities Government Buildings Healthcare Buildings Higher Education Hospitality (..)

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BEEAH Group’s new headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects

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ZHA delivered the BEEAH Headquarters in collaboration with sustainability engineers and consultants Atelier Ten and Buro Happold, project managers Matthews Southwest, construction contractor Al Futtaim Construction, and MEP engineers Al Futtaim Engineering.

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ZHA to build new Harbourside Cultural District in Sanya

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A smart building management system will automatically adjust shading, lighting and ventilation for optimum comfort and efficiencies. The district’s orientation, composition and landscaping are designed to optimise natural indirect sunlight as well as natural ventilation from cooling on-shore winds.

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Competitions: The 1st STELSI International Metaverse Architecture Competition

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Smart Buildings in the Metaverse Creative and innovative architectural design in the metaverse using future building technologies and new building materials. As reality becomes more integrated, virtual, augmented, hybrid, and scalable, we feel that our reality is increasingly converging with the online world.

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Zaha Hadid Architects completes dune-like Beeah Headquarters in Sharjah

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A smart building management system has been incorporated to automatically adjust lighting and temperature depending on occupancy and the time of day. It won the competition to create the Beeah Headquarters in 2013, which it designed in collaboration with engineers and consultants Atelier Ten and Buro Happold.

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Sustainable Architecture: How Green Building Practices are Reshaping the Industry

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Presented below are some ways in which green building practices are transforming the architecture world: Integrated design approach: Sustainable establishment practices foster an integrated design approach, enabling architects, engineers, and other architectural project stakeholders to collaborate from the construction planning.