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🏖 Come along for a ride down Pebble Beach's 17 Mile Drive to see how California is adopting the Passive House standard of #efficiencyfirst 🏡 TOMORROW, MARCH 19TH FROM 12-1 --> Join Bronwyn Barry for our monthly community meeting, as she goes over: 1. The five basic Passive House principles 2. The specific building assembly details that meet Passive House performance targets for Monterey California. 3. Basic embodied carbon footprint assessment results using a real case study of a passive house built in Pebble Beach. 4. Lessons learned for designing high performance buildings in a mild climate.

Join RDG’s Charlie Cowell, AICP, Scotney Fenton and Michelle Sacco Cunliffe as they present an introduction to historic guidelines at the Preserve Iowa Summit on June 7. Historic design guidelines ensure that the quality and integrity of neighborhoods and downtown districts are not lost. Whether for residential neighborhoods or commercial districts, historic design guidelines can be a useful tool for educating residents or can be used as a "how-to" guide for historic preservation commissions. Further action includes these guidelines in the regulatory standards for city staff and planning commissions. https://ow.ly/ETM950RPktj

More good news for Boyle this morning:

Looking forward to co-chairing this! "Many of the design decisions required to meet sustainability requirements are inherently compatible with good urban design principles (public transport, walkable neighbourhoods, urban greening), but others have a more nuanced relationship: - Interesting typologies and façade design vs form factor - Blocks with clear front to backs vs orientation - Larger windows vs overheating Join the RTPI Urban Design Network and East of England Young Planners as we explore these tensions and how they might be positively resolved." I noticed this post by Philip Oldfield on X recently which encapsulates an element of the theme https://lnkd.in/esv_5nCM

Under the guidance of Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification™ (RHFAC) Professional Ramesh Lad, Cypress Gardens has not only revitalized the landscape of affordable rental housing in the region but has set a new standard for inclusive and accessible housing, receiving an RHFAC Gold for doing so. Learn more about this one-storey, 16-unit, U-shaped townhouse building called d’Esterre Gardens in our latest blog post. https://lnkd.in/gqXcgZby

Buildings New York

Voting is now open for the MASP Awards: https://lnkd.in/d-YcCSrq Our second project is located over a section of a stormwater culvert in Qormi that extends inconspicuously beyond Qormi through several towns forming a channel that lies empty and dirty for most of the year except when the occasional downpour of rain is directed through it. In this section of the culvert, an opportunity was found to introduce a new garden for the local community and at the same time improve what was a derelict and heavily polluted stretch of road into a healthy and spacious garden and a solution for hacking existing blue infrastructure with green corridors and a potentially new network for green mobility. The creation of a new large open garden that can connect with the surrounding public realm and other potential green infrastructure, built over a derelict or previously uninhabitable space is a game changer when one considers this project as a toolkit to apply over other parts of the flood-relief culvert in other towns. It is an innovative solution that can be applied in other space-restricted and dense urban areas. The realisation of this project proves that infrastructure can become vibrant and essential spaces for communities.

Love the #NYSGBC and so glad to delve into the person and behavior aspects of the work ahead! To add some additional enticement (I hope), Jim D'Aloisio and I are presenting on embodied carbon in practice - the 4 materials revealed to be most impactful, the magnitude of impact they have in the industry and on this planet, and some immediate steps to use to reduce the burden in your work.

The latest update!

The world’s first #CoreLivingBuilding facility is open at Muhlenberg College. See inside and learn what it takes to build and operate this deep green building: https://lnkd.in/gigJ3xns #Sustainability #FM #FacilityManager #PropertyManagement #RealEstate #CRE #BUILDINGS #BuildingsMagazine #BuildingsMedia