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Hi Everyone!
Here is your friendly reminder for the last call to submit your Salary Survey! Here is a PDF to collect your thoughts first if that is helpful.
*This survey will be closed end of day Friday Feb. 15th.*
Important Note: There is a link to a Google Form at the end of the survey to let us know you have completed... Read more
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Just in time for Saturday Night!!
Get out the popcorn and put away Netflix!
For those who were unfortunate enough to miss this LIVE - you still get to watch the awesome talents of our community!
You sadly miss out on the camaraderie, connection and wonderfullness of hanging out with everyone (not recorded!) but you do get... Read more
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Sustainability leadership has requested that you take this quiz to help assess sustainability literacy across the firm. Your own results will be presented to you at the end of the quiz but will not be shared with anyone else. Only aggregated, anonymized results will be available to others.
Please don’t do research to inform your answers... Read more
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A couple questions for this group. I know we're having a Green Commons meeting on this next week. But can anyone comment on the following questions?
-Have you or your firm split the benefit of the 179D with a client? Is this typical?
-Is prevailing wage a requirement for all 179D benefit, or does it follow the same lines as... Read more
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Hello Green Gurus,
On October 5th a number of Sustainable Design Leaders gathered for the Fall 2021 SDL Virtual Summit and the BuildingGreen team is happy to now share with you all the event report here!
This report can be shared publicly. If you think someone would like to see it, such as firm leadership or prospective Peer... Read more
Quiz
Welcome to the quiz portion of Design for Adaptation: Living in a Climate-Changing World.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
1. Identify the major known causes of climate change
2. Describe the range and reliability of predicted temperature changes.
3. List... Read more
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Hello Green Gurus,
Our next Peer Networks webinar is coming up in just two weeks! We’ll hear from the Indoor Air Quality Working Group, authors of the recently published whitepaper “Considerations for Continuous Air Quality Monitoring: Simple tips for getting it right, according to IAQ consultants”.
More details will be available... Read more
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My company is looking for ways to introduce and train employees on jobsite recycling and composting. There is definitely a culture shift that needs to change in order for it to happen, but we are looking for any success stories to help us on our journey.
1) Has anyone been successful in setting up recycling/composting programs for... Read more
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Welcome to the quiz portion of Why High-Performance Assemblies and Why Now? (recorded webcast)
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
1. Understand how water moves on and through buildings.
2. Describe the details of continuous air, water, and thermal barriers and... Read more
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I see that the Architect 50 questions this year are organized around AIA 2030 Commitment reporting. I have a question about how people are answering them. The DDX reports have percentages that are by GSF. Are people using this percentage to answer the questions? Or are you calculating the percentage based on number of projects out of total... Read more
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How much does every designer need to know? How to support that basic literacy?
Guiding Questions:
Does requiring LEED-AP cover it? How do others create a shared literacy across the firm? How deeply to ask the designers to delve into technical subjects? (Or should they be paired with someone…) How do we shift the designers’ mindset... Read moreForum topic
Hi Green Commons,
It’s been eerily quiet here since Tuesday night. I’ve been quiet mostly because I just didn’t know what to say. The election results are certainly a blow to pretty much everything we’ve been working for. There is so much we don’t know about things might play out, but I’m feeling a range of emotions ranging from... Read more
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All,
Our firm has been struggling to find carbon reduction strategies for concrete that move us beyond a fly ash only approach. Frankly, the knowledge just isn't there internally or with our consultants. We've known that there are a few folks out there that have a deep bag of tricks, but we haven't had the chance to work with them... Read more
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I've been hearing recommendations for bipolar ionization, as a way to filter airborne virus particles in HVAC systems while avoiding the energy penalty of increased ventilation. However, I've also heard that ionizing equipment is dangerous because it produces ozone.
Does anyone have any insight into the effectiveness and/or cautions... Read more