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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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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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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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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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New Straw Bale Home Helps Educate People About Climate Issues

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Believe it or not, straw bale houses are some of the few that survived some of the California fires,” she said. Meanwhile, the former co-chairwoman of the Victor Sustainability Advisory Committee will carry on in her role as U.S. I’ve been in the world of sustainability for 10 years now. Draper said no.

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Cal Poly Pomona - Student Services Building: Higher Education/Research

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Symbolizing Cal Poly Pomona’s commitment to sustainability, this facility sets a new standard for LEED Platinum buildings for the entire California State University system.