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World Green Building Week is the flagship event of the global green building movement organised by WorldGBC and led by its network of over 70 Green Building Councils and their 32,000 member companies. Watch out for further details as the plans for 2017 develop. Did you know that buildings contribute to climate change? They account for over … Continue reading WGBW 2017
The RESTORE web site is on line 😊 We are happy to announce that the RESTORE website is now up and running. You can visit it at http://www.eurestore.eu The RESTORE Action aims at a paradigm shift towards restorative sustainability for new and existing buildings, promoting forward thinking and multidisciplinary knowledge, leading to solutions that celebrate … Continue reading The RESTORE web site is online.
Five takeaways from REGENERATION 2017, 3rd edition. Another edition (the third) is gone and I think of the punctual and constant work we did in these five months (yes, that is what it takes to organize REGENERATION) to get the most out of these 64 hours (from Wednesday, 26 at 9 o’ clock, to Friday 28, … Continue reading Feeling REGENERATED, at last.
Un centro di competenza per facilitare lo sviluppo di sistemi avanzati di facciata. In un edificio la facciata deve assolvere contemporaneamente a diverse funzioni: proteggere dalle intemperie, regolare gli scambi di calore e di energia, permettere un’illuminazione comfortevole e soddisfare una funzione estetica. Nel costruire edifici energeticamente efficienti e in cui si vive bene, la … Continue reading FACEcamp, hub italo-austriaco per facciate ad alte prestazioni.
Living Future unConference 2017 THE LEADING EVENT FOR REGENERATIVE DESIGN Living Future unConference is an annual event that attracts disruptive design leaders. Join a cross-industry collaborative network that is creating a healthy built environment. Celebrate Genius and Courage in all of its forms during the 11th Annual Living Future unConference, May 17-19 in Seattle, WA. … Continue reading Come join us for LF17 🙂
Approved by the COST Committee of Senior Officials on 24 October 2016, REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy (RESTORE) is one out of the 25 new Actions that were selected out of 478 eligible proposals collected earlier in April. RESTORE: 'to return something or someone to an earlier good condition or position'. Sustainable buildings and … Continue reading RESTORE | REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy
The WELL Building Standard (WELL) focuses on the people in the building. Over the last decade, green building standards and standard-setting organizations have made significant strides towards the market transformation of the building industry, resulting in a rapid expansion of green buildings and environmentally conscious building practices throughout the world. Over the same period, strategies … Continue reading I’m doing WELL.
A "Rocky Station" for REGENERATION Good also the second one, one might say, after the conclusion of REGENERATION 2016 which repeats, after one year, the success of the European design competition by Macro Design Studio in collaboration with the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), that promotes the Living Building philosophy, the most rigorous standard in … Continue reading REGENERATION rocks!
Living Building Challenge meets Slow Food. "Slow Construction" can be defined as an approach in line with the principles of Slow Food and Living Building Challenge, which aims to tune the buildings with the local environment around them by using local materials, eliminating toxic products, adapting the design to the specific climatic and ecological conditions. … Continue reading Slow Construction.
Cosa sono i CAM. I “Criteri Ambientali Minimi” o “CAM”, adottati con Decreto Ministeriale dal Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare (MATTM) riportano delle indicazioni generali volte a indirizzare gli enti pubblici verso una razionalizzazione dei consumi e degli acquisti e forniscono delle “considerazioni ambientali”, collegate alle diverse fasi delle procedure … Continue reading CAM (Criteri ambientali minimi): il diavolo sta nei dettagli.
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