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RISD students create floating mycelium pods to cleanse waterways

Deezen

A team of Rhode Island School of Design students and researchers have created tesselated, floating planting beds made of a mycelium biomaterial to cleanse waterways of pollutants and restore wetland habitat. A team of RISD students have created floating beds out of mycelium.

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2022 Projects in the Pipeline

SW Oregon Architect

LCC is using the bond to address safety, security, and accessibility for all students on its campuses, workforce retraining and career technical education investments, and classroom and learning space updates to meet the needs of current and future students.

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How Good Is "Carbon Neutral" Furniture?

Dwell

According to the EPA , an estimated nine million tons of furniture were sent to landfills in 2018. Rather than throwing them away, he decided to launch Offcut , a line of furniture and decor made from waste produced in his workshop; he also resells scrap to local craftspeople and donates it to local architecture and design students.

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Let's build toward a circular economy

BD+C

These principles are essential, given how construction is estimated to create a third of the world’s waste. If we correctly design an academic building, it could be transformed into a simulation lab in a generation, and student housing a generation after that. Want a building that comes with a financial return?

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Transforming shopping malls into 21st century neighborhoods

BD+C

Marc Asnis, AICP MFPRO+ Blog University Buildings Healthcare Facilities Mixed-Use Apartments Retail Centers Shopping Centers Designers Architects Adaptive Reuse Exterior Restoration Interior Architecture Sustainability Sustainable Development The death of the 20th century shopping mall is evident all across the country.

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Let's build towards a circular economy

BD+C

These principles are essential, given how construction is estimated to create a third of the world’s waste. If we correctly design an academic building, it could be transformed into a simulation lab in a generation, and student housing a generation after that. Want a building that comes with a financial return?

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English woodlands construction resource news

e-architect

A demonstrator unit created using homegrown cross-laminated timber (CLT), nail-laminated timber (NLT) and glue-laminated timber (GLT) was found to have an estimated carbon sink of -142kg per m2, compared to +612 kg per m2for an equivalent brick and block construction.