Our mission is to advance the sustainability
of urban buildings through education, advocacy and research.
You will get a solid and professional foundation in subjects, methods, theories and disciplines spanning
from urban building design and technologies to knowledge about modeling and user involvement.
It can also produce high resolution and accurate wind and thermal distribution predictions to an
actual urban built - up district, using realistic weather conditions.
I see the house on the right and keep going, confused at first only by the fact that such an
obviously urban building is standing there in the middle of the countryside.
Already we can
see urban building and street designs that use natural air flows to cool the city.
At night, radiative losses
from urban building and street materials keep the city's air warmer than that of rural areas.
Kresge Foundation grant for «General operating support to help transform
urban built environments in light of climate change»
The stories exposed self - dealing at the Nature Conservancy; sham deductions taken for protecting facades
on urban buildings; and jaw - dropping write - offs for golf resorts, whose chemical - doused fairways and private membership seemed at odds with the goals of protecting natural habitat and providing «significant public benefit.»
We want to penetrate the old neighborhoods, and have created potential for 34,000 housing units, 10,000 of which are in
approved urban building plans.
Requiring energy efficiency in
new urban buildings To minimize these problems, Chinese policymakers in recent years ordered real estate developers to comply with new codes.
Thurgood Marshall Elementary School is a shining example of transforming an existing,
urban building into a healthy, green school for students, teachers, and staff.
The design of the new BMW i3 and the exclusive first - ever BMW i3s has been altered to enhance the sporty,
urban built yet elegant design of the model.
The New School's University Center, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), is the first commissioned building for The New School since its landmark
Joseph Urban building was erected in 1931 at 66 West 12th Street.
In this collection of angular images, the Russian photographer ambitiously challenges both the literal and figurative boundaries that
urban buildings inflict on society in order to, as the Facebook event puts it, «break the walls which we come up against and to push the limits of perception.»
Using characteristics of human internal organs and artwork
incorporating urban buildings and home appliances, the artist develops a unique representation of human body structure in relation to rapid urbanization.
Cities are in the frontline for cutting carbon emissions, new IEA report finds Energy Technology Perspectives 2016 shows that
decarbonising urban buildings and transport is key to attain Paris climate goals, but slow progress will test governments» commitment 1 June 2016
According to Graham,
urban building codes are the primary obstruction to tiny house communities ever gaining ground in cities: «[These communities are] not going to happen inside the corporate city limits of virtually any city in the United States of America.
He has been collecting pictures of California measurement sites near his home, and trying to
correlate urban building around the measurement point with past temperature trends.
«The real estate industry is heavily weighted to delivering single - family homes or
bigger urban buildings,» Parolek says, adding that demand for the missing middle far outpaces supply, an assertion backed up by studies from Urban Land Institute, strategic real estate advisor group RCLCO, and others.
But don't despair —
many urban buildings have flat roofs that can be converted to a party - perfect rooftop terrace.
Canadian housing starts dipped to 225,213 units in March compared with 231,026 in February, as construction
of urban buildings like apartments and condominiums decreased, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Tuesday.
As people age, 193 locations accumulate tags, like playbills plastered
on urban buildings.
He knows we need to address climate change with alternative, renewable energy solutions while reinvesting in
our urban buildings and infrastructure.
«Self - cleaning» surfaces coated with titanium dioxide can break down chemical grime that will otherwise adhere to
urban buildings.
Not all real estate is
an urban building, though.
But it is studded with good,
urban buildings, a heartening number of them from the past 15 years.
In fact, the bridge from Cancun «s airport and the hotel zone was plagued with annoying construction mishaps until the workers built an alux house underneath the overpass to show the alux they can remain in the area despite all
the urban build - up.
In these recent paintings, Sandy Litchfield investigates the formal and conceptual relationship between
the urban built environment, the countryside, and the forest.
The works themselves index architectural barriers between outside and inside — a monumental new series of aluminum - cast windows, a large - scale brick - wall painting and a new series of concrete sculptures cast from the corners of
urban buildings — collectively comprising the space of an inner world.
Untitled: crushed shape is one of a number of drawings that explores process and the behaviour of materials, and in Untitled: basel structure, Barlow gathers inspiration from the structures and materials of
the urban built environment.
«And I was fascinated to hear the artist's own description of his work as walking a tightrope between the hard textures of
the urban built environment and something which leans towards the more poetic.»
Focusing on the physical fabric of
the urban built environment and the hyper - city, her lens - based practice meticulously captures and transcribes its viral quality and alienating sense of the spectacular, while always maintaining an objective distance.
Counter Constructs brings together seven artists from the UK and North America in an exhibition exploring strategies of representation and critique of
the urban built environment.
His note also made me wonder if anyone is thinking in a holistic way about fostering practices that can turn
the urban building boom in developing countries into an opportunity.
The simple answer is that large companies are major consumers of energy; they are vehicle fleet owners and bulk purchasers; and they are landlords and owners of much of
the urban built environment.
Adding living greenery to
our urban buildings in the form of vertical gardens not only helps to make cities more beautiful, but also serves the practical purpose of producing extra oxygen and cleaning the air.
To meet this target, the world must reach zero fossil fuel CO2 emissions in
the urban built environment by about 2050, and zero total global greenhouse gas emissions by 2060 to 2080.
It shows that we can design
urban buildings that are off - grid but also off - pipe.
Standards and policies for very high energy efficiency in
the urban building sector towards reaching the 1.5 °C target