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Category Archives: Sustainable Design
Lightcatcher Building
Small cities deserve well-designed civic buildings and museums. This is one, designed by the accomplished Seattle firm Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects (soon to be renamed Olson Kundig Architects), whose body of work is well known throughout the Pacific Northwest … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Sustainable Design, Uncategorized
Tagged Design, green, Sustainable Design
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Training Classes Announced
Webinar classes: Looking for ways to save money on training? Why not attend a short focused event that will provide high value at an affordable cost? The following topics are announced: Nov 13 @ 10AM PST – Integrating: Revit with … Continue reading
Posted in BIM, Revit, Sustainable Design, Uncategorized
Tagged BIM, Ecotect, Learning, Revit, webcast
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House of the Week: Consorzio Vini Tipici di San Marino
OK, so it’s not really a house, but perhaps a really good house wine. Every once in a while you find a very intriguing use of technology in architecture schools. Lately, the amount of good work has been not scarce. … Continue reading
Posted in BIM, Design, Sustainable Design, Visualization
Tagged BIM, Design, Ecotect, green, Presentation, Sustainable Design, thirsty cad
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Congrats to the CCA + SCU team – 2009 Solar Decathlon Architecture Contest winner
A well deserved kudos to all who participated in the Solar Decathlon is in order. This year’s entries have a level of sophistication and attention to detail that should inform the industry and heat up the debate on energy independence. … Continue reading
Seattle Ecotect User Group
I and 50 other architects, designers, engineers, consultants and construction professionals just attended the inaugural meeting of the newly formed Seattle Ecotect® User Group. This meeting, sponsored by IMAGINiT and Callison Architecture was held at the Seattle offices of Skanska. … Continue reading
Posted in BIM, Sustainable Design
Tagged BIM, Ecotect, green, Learning, Seattle, Sustainable Design
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House of the week
Why are you showing me an image of a greenhouse? It’s a house, but a different shade of green. And it’s not for growing in the way you’d think. Huh? I will explain. Perhaps a good reason to start pushing … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Revit, Sustainable Design
Tagged analysis, house of the week, mo-chitecture
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zHome
Recently, I attended a presentation by Brad Liljequist, the project manager for the zHome project. His talk, part of the Sustainable Connections series of conferences in Bellingham, WA, was a very interesting discovery showcasing the efforts of a complex and … Continue reading
HOK GREEN BIM: Quick to the draw….
Well, looks like I was beat to the punch. I did intend to write up this workflow as described in my previous post and I should have had that one near complete, when I noticed THIS on the HOK Green … Continue reading
Posted in BIM, Revit, Sustainable Design
Tagged BIM, green, IES, Revit, Sustainable Design
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CNET News.com: Sustainable Vision for Bay Area in 100 years
Here’s a very interesting video showing firms competing to envision what cramped cities may look like in 100 years. Hurray, flying cars at last! I wonder what will be powering everything though. As part of the History Channel’s Future Cities … Continue reading
Speedometer for your home
Did your mother ever tell you to “Turn off those lights if your not using them? You’re wasting Electricity.” Or have you ever played with the light switch to create your own disco club? Hey, it was the seventies… and … Continue reading
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