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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

With its latest annual Make It Real program, Autodesk is challenging high school students to imagine how to design and build a habitat for an extreme environment. For the Make It Resilient 2024 contest , any extreme environment such as a desert, rainforest, deep ocean site, areas prone to flooding, or even another planet can be chosen.

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The present and future of crisis mental health design

BD+C

The present and future of crisis mental health design 0 qpurcell Thu, 08/10/2023 - 10:07 Healthcare Facilities BWBR principal Melanie Baumhover sat down with the firm’s behavioral and mental health designers to talk about how intentional design can play a role in combatting the crisis.

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Unlocking Success in AECO Projects: The Transformative Power of Collaboration

Construction Business Owner

Promote to rotator No Rotator Image Status of webinar Featured This presentation emphasizes the significance of genuine collaboration, sharing lessons learned in the office and field. This presentation emphasizes the significance of genuine collaboration, sharing lessons learned in the office and field.

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Deconstruction and Reuse: The Future of our Built Environment.

Construction Marketing

I do believe that we can reimagine our world and our built environment in such a way that we can pull ourselves out of this trend and this tremendously expensive habitual behavior. Our speakers and presenters represent some of the leading practitioners and thinkers in our industry. But I do believe there are answers. Just let us know.

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Meet the Insider: Alan Muse, Global Director of the Build Environment at RICS

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Alan Muse , Global Director of the Built Environment at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) , is passionate about all of these things. The post Meet the Insider: Alan Muse, Global Director of the Build Environment at RICS appeared first on Digital Builder. What’s one “tool” you can’t live without and why?

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Advantages of Green Roofs in Urban Environments

Natural Building

Usually all of the pollution and dirt present in the streets ends up going directly into drainage systems, which can pollute rivers and streams. The post Advantages of Green Roofs in Urban Environments appeared first on Natural Building Blog. In other words, they are highly efficient devices to reduce urban heat islands.

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Blending past, present, and future at a research center

BD+C

How do you create an environment that will attract the world’s leading scientists to the center of an industrial technology and manufacturing park? In short: By drawing on the past, present, and future to create a setting for scientific research and collaboration for today and beyond.