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2024 Timber-Strong Design Build Competition: Small Buildings, Big Educational Opportunities

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2024 Timber-Strong Design Build Competition: Small Buildings, Big Educational Opportunities 1 kcichowicz Thu, 06/20/2024 - 12:14 Student-led teams have 90 minutes to erect attractive, durable, engineered wood structures. This year’s winners included teams from Michigan, Indiana, Florida, Colorado, Utah, Texas, California and Puerto Rico.

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Affordable Housing That LEEDs in Being Green and Sustainable

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Affordable Housing That LEEDs in Being Green and Sustainable. The design leverages the real earth below the courtyard for planting large shade trees, creating a serene, shaded community space for residents while also bringing some native California landscape to the street. . . All photos: Sustainable Comfort). . .

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Straw Bale Houses in Southern California

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Rebecca Tasker, with a crew of apprentices, is building two straw bale houses near Escondido, California. People like sustainability,” Tasker said. Another sustainable feature of the houses will be a rainwater capture system that will collect 600 gallons for every inch of rain. So the building project is also a teaching site.

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How This California Nonprofit Developer Does Affordable Communities

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How This California Nonprofit Developer Does Affordable Communities. Visionary Home Builders of California Inc developed its first affordable housing community in 1983. A key aspect for Visionary’s developments are its educational offerings and robust amenities. cbroderick. Tue, 03/02/2021 - 09:21.

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First look: UC San Diego opens net-zero biological research lab

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acre site on the University of California, San Diego campus. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in La Jolla, Calif., located on a 1.75-acre Designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects (ZGF), the three-story, 45,000-sf building is an apt tribute to its prominent, coastal location, with its long, slender shape. Body Image: read more.

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Excellence in Sustainability, Award of Merit, Higher Ed/Research: University of California, Riverside School of Medicine Education Building II

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million Education Building II (EDII) is a strategically located, highly visible structure on campus that creates a new home for the medical school. Featuring a wide range of team-based student learning spaces, social spaces and departmental offices for faculty and staff, the $87.4-million

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City Momentum Index Identifies The World’s 20 Most Dynamic Cities

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Demonstrating success factors relating to education, innovation, sustainability and transparency, Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam, for example, are distinguished by their strengths in talent and new technologies, while Copenhagen has among the world’s strongest “green” credentials. Far West U.S. - Mid Atlantic U.S. -