Avoiding waste in the housing industry. An interested TEDTalk.
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U.S. Army steps up equirements for greening building, lighting
Cool roofs, solar water heating and advanced metering are among the energy efficiency 
elements that are to be incorporated into new permanent Army buildings in the U.S. and abroad.
Starting in fiscal year 2013, designs for new construction and major renovations are to incorporate the sustainable design and development principles contained in the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Standard 189.1.
The standard details strategies for siting, cool roofs, solar water heating, advanced metering, storm water management and energy and water efficiency that reduce the environmental impacts of buildings. All are to be considered and included in designs to the extent possible (in some climates, for example, cool roofs would not be practical or beneficial), according to Army policy announced last week.
The new policy also makes lifecycle analysis of major building systems and structural, mechanical, electrical and energy efficiency measures as well as building commissioning and verification mandatory.
Swanky new Vegas hotel’s ‘death ray’ proves inconvenient for some guests
And here you thought bedbugs were the biggest source of anxiety for hotel guests.
Yes, guests at Vdara hotel in Las Vegas now have something else to worry about: being burned alive by the glare of the building’s “death ray.”
What the heck’s a “death ray,” you ask? Well, first off, it’s not as deadly as it sounds, since no one has actually died from it — at least not yet. But according to the U.K. Daily Mail, the powerful beams of Nevada sunlight reflecting off the glass hotel onto sections of the hotel’s swimming pool area have burned some guests and have melted plastic bags.
The building’s concave design creates a sort of magnifying-glass effect. The hotel’s designers reportedly anticipated that ill-situated humans might experience some discomfort courtesy of the building’s blinding glare, so they placed a film over the glass panes of its many windows. Obviously that didn’t quite do the trick. So for now the hotel is placing larger umbrellas in the pool area while designers try to come up with another remedy.
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Biggest suspension bridge
National Geographic: Today's biggest suspension bridge was built borrowing ancient technology.
Pack for flannels for this trip!
This frozen wonder of the world, is the biggest igloo on the planet, and also a hotel! Would this be considered a design-build project or sustainable design? Hm, makes me wonder.
A moving building . . . is it really possible?
This Dynamic Architecture building by David Fisher will be constantly in
motion changing its shape. It will also generate electric energy for
itself. more at http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net
See more information, for example plumbing here http://dynamic-architecture.blogspot….
to find out more about all kind of dynamic buildings see here
http://dynamic-architecture.blogspot….
What issues need to be addressed in a sustainable project?
by Richard Cartlidge
Mitchell Joachim of Terreform, on sustainable architecture
Now, this is what I call "green" design.
Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature
"Architects, Designers, and Engineers invite biologists to sit at the design table." Nature provides fantastic ideas for sustainable design. In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine
Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already
influencing the products and systems we build