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Hi all,
The San Francisco Department of the Environment is hoping to gather info from designers and specifiers about construction surplus materials. Their survey is 8 questions total and not limited to those in the SF area.
Pasting info below if you have a chance to participate!
Calling Designers and Specifiers:
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Please share your thoughts in preparation for our monthly call this Thursday (call info below).
Given these items that are changing at AIA, are any of them motivating changes within your firm? If so, how? If not, why?
1. Awards criteria now includes COTE Measures of Design Excellence
2. Code of Ethics now includes rule on... Read more
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We broke up into 5 discussion groups by market sector:
Commercial office Education Healthcare & Labs Multifamily Civic/institutional/sportsHere are the proposed "guiding questions":
How do other firms define 'design thinking'? Do they have a standard process used across projects and, if so, how they have made that take hold... Read moreForum topic
Hi All!
Our company recently rolled out a corporate Green Team of volunteers across the company working to drive sustainability initiatives at their respective office locations. I wanted to reach out and ask who has a Green Team (or similar name) at their company and learn more about how different Green Teams are structured within the... Read more
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Welcome to the quiz portion of What’s New in Multi-Attribute Environmental Certifications.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
1. Describe several styles of multi-attribute certification.
2. List a benefit and a downside to both point-based certification programs and... Read more
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What is BuildingGreen? What is BuildingGreen Premium Membership? I have lost or forgotten my password How do I renew my BuildingGreen premium membership? How do I cancel my auto-renewing membership? Can I get a refund? How to receive notification of new BuildingGreen contentOrders, Memberships and Billing
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Hello MEP Leaders,
Happy 2022! Here's your reminder that our virtual meetup for this month is coming up next Tuesday, January 11th at 2:00pm ET.
All members of the network are invited to join! The agenda for the call is available here.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83598691786?pwd=... Read more
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This just in from AIA Leadership:
https://www.aia.org/pages/6522198-aia-statement-on-scotus-decision-in-west-v
Please share this with your networks.
Thanks.
Mary Ann
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Hello friends,
We are looking for recommendations for solar photovoltaic consultants to support one of our projects. We have used SEI in the past, but would like to develop a deeper bench and approach it from another angle. We aren’t too concerned about the consultant’s location, but are looking for someone that is on top of the current... Read more
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Has anyone come across any (embodied) carbon emissions calculator for water? Perhaps per region/state?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi all,
Thank you again to those of you who attended the Summer 2024 SDL Summit! We had an unforgettable few days of learning from one another, including from our presenters.
The slides for the 5-minute presentations are below, as well as the BuildingGreen slides from the Summit. Please be aware that we have permission from all... Read more
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Hello Green Gurus,
Thank you for your patience while we pulled together the summer summit reports and getting them posted, sorry it took so long!
You can see the most recent summit reports for SDL, SCL, and MEP near the top-left of the Resources page in the Peer Networks Hub.
A friendly reminder, these reports are sharable... Read more
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Dear SDL'ers
After many months of soul searching about my role as a sustainability leader and how to have the most positive environmental impact, I have decided to take a leave from practice to pursue further studies this September. I will be undertaking a two year Master’s degree at the Institute for Resources, Environment and... Read more
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Hi all,
We’re thrilled to share that registration is now open for our All-Networks Workshop on Integrated Design + Delivery from the Inside Out! The workshop will be held on July 15th at Miller Hull’s Seattle office, right before the Summer 2024 SDL Summit. Register now before it fills up, and please feel free to email me with any... Read more
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Andrea first became familiar with BuildingGreen in 2010 when she and her husband moved to Vermont and built their own passive house from the ground up. BuildingGreen’s president Nadav Malin heard about the project and asked if the staff could take a tour, and the rest is history. She joined the BuildingGreen team part-time in 2011 to work on... Read more
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I would like to invite you to come see the progress of the Oakland EcoBlock on 4/21! Page is co-presenting at the ULI event and we have been pulling together the latest material. It would be great if you can join!
Posted yesterday on the OEB web page https://ecoblock.berkeley.edu/news/ Sign up here: https://sf.uli.org/events/detail/... Read more