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How To Run a Great Workshop: 37 Tips and Ideas

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Whether you call it a charrette, a workshop, or simply a meeting, these suggestions from experts will make your next event more fun and productive.
Energy Modeling For Sustainability

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Evolving software for modeling energy dynamics makes it easier for architects and engineers to design green buildings.
Mouth, Meet Money: Case Studies of Outcome-Based Design

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Performance-based incentives are a growing (and positive) trend. They’re not as risky as they sound, but there are some steps you should be taking to prepare.
Pest Prevention: Steps Designers Can Take

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Integrated pest management (IPM) design strategies can reduce structural damage and unsanitary conditions, and improve our community’s health.

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Alpen Acquired by Serious Materials

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Autodesk, Bentley Continue to Expand, Agree to Collaborate

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Design software giants Autodesk and Bentley Systems have announced plans to support each other's software as both companies continue to push towards real-time performance feedback during the design process by acquiring and partnering with software companies that offer energy and other green design analyses.
Mazria Publishes Code Equivalents for 2030 Challenge

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Architecture 2030 has published a white paper showing the amount by which buildings have to beat various codes to meet the 50% energy reductions called for by the 2030 Challenge. More than a dozen codes and standards are presented, with 20%-30% improvement required for most.
Jones Lang LaSalle Gives Green Globes a Boost

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Property management and brokerage giant Jones Lang LaSalle now owns the creator of the Green Globes rating system, which it hopes to leverage into enhanced capabilities for assessing the environmental responsibility of clients' buildings and entire real estate portfolios.

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LEED Must Lead on Climate

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The world urgently needs the building industry to tackle climate change, and LEED has to be part of that.
USGBC Response: Help Create the Next LEED version

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The U.S. Green Building Council responds to an earlier op-ed, “LEED Must Lead on Climate.”
Bring the Noise! It Can Help You Listen.

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Noise-canceling headphones and tightly sealed buildings have more in common than you might think.
The Energy Conservatory’s New Blower Door Kit

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TEC did its homework: its new blower door package is a well-engineered and integrated equipment system

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