With an intense focus on regional design and other green building issues, AIA 2011 looks to the future.
By HB Lozito
Ideas worth spreading have a way of crossing disciplines. At a recent TED event, HB Lozito found links to green building that may surprise you.Like many other people, I have been lusting after attending a TED talk for the last several years. I tend to eat them up while on my lunch break. Or better still, if I can relate them directly to my work (which I often can) I even occasionally watch while actually at my desk. I am a person obsessed.
Enerconcepts' Lubi transpired solar air heating system uses perforated polycarbonate glazing to transfer solar energy into the space between a building exterior wall and the panel where it can be used to preheat ventilation air.
Conserval's SolarWall was the pioneer in the transpired solar collector market, but innovations abound. How do the newer systems measure up?
We continue our primer on building responsibly in the post-carbon era: How do we design to honor and support nature's patterns, rather than co-opting them?
[Editor's note: Robert Riversong, a Vermont builder, continues his 10-part series of articles taking design and construction to what he sees as radical or "root" concerns. Enjoy--and please share your thoughts. – Tristan Roberts]
Biomass supporters cite it as a "green" fuel like wind and solar. Using it to generate electricity, though, leaves a lot to be desired in terms of public health and efficiency.
"On a scale from 1 to 10, how nice are you?"
Enter the greenwash-free zone with the webinar that answers your questions on what green labels really mean and which ones to trust.
Wed., May 18 | 3 p.m. ET Register now
Lots of big news from the 2011 Living Future event in Vancouver, including the winners of the Living City competition.
The 2011 Living Future "unconference" in Vancouver is a hopping, high-energy event. As usual, CEO, host, and MC Jason McLennan has set a high bar with his passion and willingness to push boundaries. Except Jason, all the keynote speakers this year are women, making it a little anticlimactic that the theme of next year's conference is the role of women in green building.
The preservationist wisdom is that a lot of energy--gallons and gallons of gasoline--is locked up in our historic buildings, and should be saved. It's time to update that wisdom.
A surreal magazine ad just got even more surreal for me.
It's easy to get confused about the difference between energy and power, between watts and watt-hours. But if you can master inches and pounds, you can master this.
It's easy to get confused about the difference between energy and power, between watts and watt-hours. But if you can master inches and pounds, you can master this.
How many mystery writers does it take to change a 60-watt lightbulb?
Two--one to screw the bulb almost all the way in, and one to provide a surprising twist at the end.
How many Energy Solutions columnists does it take to change a 60-watt lightbulb?
Fire guts half a block of a small New England town, revealing the built-in vulnerabilities of dense development.
