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Join us for our Licensure Town Hall on Tuesday, August 20th, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, on Zoom! We will be discussing National ASLA and CLARB's effort on the Uniform Licensure Standard, the process, and what it could mean for Georgia Landscape Architects. Have the opportunity to hear the details from National ASLA and our GAASLA Lobbyist, and be ready to ask questions and voice any concerns. Register now: https://lnkd.in/eRgx4FRC
Planning is about balancing priorities. That’s why we can’t continue to make planning policy decisions based solely on architectural studies like this. Because when heritage laws restrict upgrades to old buildings and ban new homes from whole suburbs, every Canberran loses out. https://buff.ly/3SRaS4u
The future of real estate is beyond our wildest expectations. When combining AI agency and Blockchain Recording buying, selling, and owning real estate will become a far more simple and a far less costly process. Cal Poly has the potential to dramatically change the real estate process on even a global scale.
Outstanding meeting this week of the Cal Poly Real Estate Initiative (REI) Founder’s Circle. The REI is shaping the future of real estate education and helping prepare future real estate leaders for California and beyond. Cal Poly Orfalea College of Business Cal Poly College of Architecture & Environmental Design California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Navigating the approval maze? 🏛️🔍 Watch our latest video to understand Detail and Level Identification Surveys and ensure your projects sail through council approvals. Plus, find registered surveyors with a click: https://lnkd.in/gzXdbszZ #detailsurvey #identificationsurvey #boundarysurvey #sydneyarchitecture #councilapproval
This case study discusses the recreation of the historic U.S. Senate Chamber. Explore the collaboration between the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, Rafael Viñoly Architects, and Existing Conditions, as we united to recreate the historic U.S. Senate Chamber and safeguard its historical significance during replication while envisioning a future for informed public engagement. You can dive in here - https://lnkd.in/ewPWcM7d #existingconditions #3dlaserscanning #ussenate
Liabilities after retirement are often the last things architects plan for. But as the case of Hockenberry v. Wapping Cemetery Association illustrates, it can be a stark reality. Even years after project completion and the architect's passing, lawsuits can be an unexpected and distressing aspect of one's estate management. How long after an architect retires can they be sued? Find answers in this eye-opening study: https://bit.ly/49AddHs #Architecture #ConstructionLaw
Great piece here from Dinah Bornat. The second session of oral evidence for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities public inquiry into children, young people and the built environment will add significantly to the wealth of written and oral evidence already given. Dinah's work in this area is hugely important and can show what architects can do to make spaces work for children and young people. This inquiry bring me real hope for #spatialjustice for children.
I've written a comment piece for Building Design. about the Parliamentary Select Committee inquiry and process. I'm encouraged that the architects we work with, our clients and their partners want to approach child friendly planning and participation properly and can see the wider benefits it brings. I hope the inquiry captures the attention of this or better still the next government. Without national policy and support we are hamstrung by other priorities and the approach cannot become mainstream. For the architecture industry it promises a strong vision for housing and new developments and as I say, shows how we can demonstrate our value and that what we do matters. ZCD ARCHITECTS LTD The Earls Court Development Company Levitt Bernstein TOWN. Van Leer Foundation Playing Out Fields in Trust Tim Gill Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) RIBA
Happy World Wetlands Day from ACT Engineers, Inc.! Our team of professional wetland scientists, landscape architects, design engineers, and surveyors strategically engineer with nature to protect acres of tidal wetlands to improve the resiliency of our shorelines, which shield coastal communities from storms and changing sea levels. Learn more about World Wetlands Day by visiting worldwetlandsday.org. #ACTEngineers #WorldWetlandsDay
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The results are in, and our Global Housebuilders’ Survey 2024 is live! 🌍🔍 This report combines survey findings with top industry data, offering powerful global insights and country-by-country comparisons. We reveal the realities and most pressing industry challenges across residential construction. A huge thanks to the hundreds of industry experts who contributed to this groundbreaking research. Download the full report: https://lnkd.in/dpj3fkas
Dive into the hidden history of urban water management! Today, urban dwellers tend to think about where their water comes from only when it stops flowing, or when it flows too much. Water usually makes it to residential consumers through an extensive and technologically sophisticated infrastructure that remains largely invisible outside times of crisis. Across much of human history, by contrast, the question of where to get water for daily needs was much more immediate. While the technologies used to gather and distribute water in the past may have been less complex, the basic principles are the same. Join our panel of scholars who will dissect the evolution of water management from ancient Rome to the Maya civilization and into the modern US Southwest. Panelists Timothy Beach (The University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts), Michael Holleran (The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture), Adam Rabinowitz (The University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts) and Rabun Taylor (The University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts) discuss the connection of those practices with social and historical developments in both the Old and the New Worlds. Discover how these historical practices echo through time, offering insights into current densely settled areas' water management dilemmas. Details and RSVP: https://bit.ly/3TJa1nO
Interesting idea floated in Australia. Drop the set backs - the wedding cake look - and build more homes. Set backs seem to have become a big thing in the UK so you can’t see the true building height from ground level - but what’s wrong with seeing the full building? As the Melbourne YIMBY spokesperson in the article says: “They represent a very high cost – fewer, less sustainable homes – for very little benefit – a little less shadowing, or visual bulk. No one goes to the streets of Prague or Paris and complains about visual bulk.” Upper-level setbacks decrease thermal efficiency and project viability, meaning fewer, more expensive homes, while increasing carbon emissions and the rate of defects, including timber-rot and mould. “Upper-level setbacks require architects to compromise on both external built form and internal apartment design across projects, force highly compromised and complex apartment layouts with lower amenity, as well as fewer family-size apartments across our city.” A policy idea for the UK to adopt? Just Build Homes
Upper-level setbacks are the worst, most poorly-evidenced rule in the Victorian planning system. They're so stupid, in fact, that we YIMBY Melbourne have had no choice but to publish a full piece of research on why they should be abolished. The research is called, fittingly, Upper-level Setbacks Delenda Est, and it is called that because it is a declaration of war. The good news is that this war is easy: upper-level setbacks on medium density housing are almost entirely indefensible. The rules are underpinned by confected terms such as "visual bulk" and "break up the form", which don't mean anything and provide no material benefit to anyone. I have become known for my propensity to point out how much of our state's planning system is built on a foundation of vibes. And nothing is more vibey than upper-level setback requirements. As I said in The Australian Financial Review this morning, no one goes to Paris or Prague and complains of the visual bulk. We shouldn't complain about it here in Melbourne, either. 📰 Read the AFR article: https://lnkd.in/gABt4nqx 🖊️ Read & sign the open letter to Minister Sonya Kilkenny: https://lnkd.in/gJD9WQzG 🏬 Read YIMBY Melbourne's Upper-level Setbacks Delenda Est: https://lnkd.in/g35PWvdM
