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California Embodied Carbon Legislation: How to Prepare for AB 2446

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Some exciting news coming out of California means big things for Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), which analyze a product’s full life cycle environmental impacts and identify prioritized areas for carbon reduction. Available embodied carbon resources are listed in the AIA-CLF Embodied Carbon Toolkit. #2:

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Ken Calligar Is Shaping a New Era of Resilient Construction

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One solution comes in the form of a 3D cementitious panel by Re-Structure Group that won the 2019 NAHB Global Innovation Award for its weather resistance and energy efficiency. . Veev’s Amit Haller on Scaling Innovation and Shortening the Supply Chain. They’re in Austin, they're in Denver, and that's all net zero net.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

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These factors include… poor formal and professional education in the domain, low investment in research and development, deep rooted project culture, perceived long life-cycle of associated return on investment, resistance from construction projects’ participants and stakeholders, and lack of real property owner leadership and competency.

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Rad Projects of 2018

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It’s been an absolute freaking pleasure innovating with our incredible clients and collaborating with project teams on some crazy exciting work. Services provided: LEED CS Consulting & Project Management, Energy Modeling, Life Cycle Cost Analysis. After a year like 2018, all we can really say is thank you.

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Top 10 Companies for Environmental Engineers to Work For

CivilJungle

It deals with innovative new technologies to help positively impact the environment we live in and can take many forms such as architecture, civil engineering, renewable energy sources, and more. Increase System Life Cycle. It is a combination of innovative technologies with innovative products. Resource Recovery.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Locations are bringing higher ed resources and high-tech businesses together to plant the seeds for market-ready advanced technology at incubators and innovation institutes, and to create the STEM-savvy workforce that will fill these new jobs. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

Natural Building

Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Austin Tinting said. Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. There is a diverse variety of eco-housing worldwide. Great article on green building.

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