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What's next for affordable housing in 2024?

BD+C

We think this kind of innovation will continue, with intensified focus on cutting carbon emissions and improving buildings’ environmental footprints. We distilled that information into an interactive tool—our IRA Calculator —which can estimate financing opportunities at stake in different sustainable design decisions.

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FCA proposed new rules to tackle greenwashing

e-architect

Yet the fact is that our built environment is a major contributor to climate change, with the Energy Savings Trust estimating that the housing sector produces 21% of carbon emissions in the UK. To do so, it is vital to make green finance accessible, appealing and realistic to customers.

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Reinvestment without displacement: North Avenue Market

Community Architect Daily

“Our aim is to foster an environment conducive to artistic experimentation, creativity, and serendipitous encounters—the very essence of innovation and collaboration,” Ellen Janes, executive director of Central Baltimore Partnership (CBP). According to Ellen Janes it helped tat the sellers were assisting in financing the purchase cost of.

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Why All Architects Should Tackle an Adaptive Reuse Project At Least Once in their Careers

Architizer

Renovation is not only a new creative frontier for architects, it is the future of architecture: according to Deloitte estimates, up to 90 percent of future development will involve re-designing existing buildings. At this point, adaptive reuse is mainstream, and the carbon-saving benefits are well-known (and widely touted).

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NEOM: Will the Multi-Billion Dollar Mega-City Ever Come to Life? 

Architizer

His aim, he said, is to help drive Saudi away from its dependency on finance from the crude oil industry, which has historically been the country’s largest export but is undoubtedly playing a part in the climate change that is adversely affecting areas across the Middle East. .

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

The World Health Organization estimates that almost 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every day in 2020. Cheng will conduct interviews with key stakeholders and research design decisions, procurement routes, contractual relations, financing, regulations, and policies.

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From Cubicles to Community: The Future City. (Part 2)

Community Architect

The US is estimated to need about 3.8 As cities managed to emerge from the squalor and grime of industrialization as hubs of innovation, management and finance, it is now possible that cities emerge from the demise of the office as the universe of productivity and from the collapse of traditional work as shining beacons of humanity.

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