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Today’s Architectural Style; Lead by Sun Light & Power
Architecture has progressed through many different styles and all someone here in the U.S. has to do to see a variety of those styles is to drive through any major city. Glance to your left and right,...
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Chidley North Hall’s Green Design Receives Gold
LEED certification is a guiding accredited program that encourages buildings to be more environmentally friendly, through design, materials and future energy consumptions. Right now it is a driving...
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Historic Rose Building Gets Lighting Renovation
There are many different systems that make up a building. Some of the examples are electrical, mechanical, HVAC, plumbing, lighting and the actual structural system. Without any one of these, a place...
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Lunera’s New Generation of LED Lighting
Lunera Lighting, a company that began in 2009 out of California recently announced the release of its fourth generation recessed LED Troffer light in its 22-G4 seriers. “This SERIES 22-G4 exemplifies...
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Energy-Efficient Prototype Home Can Power Itself
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a branch of the United States Commerce Department, has a new project. They recently showed off their new facility, built to resemble a house, which...
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Zero Waste Systems; A Cycle Following Nature’s Design
I write about sustainable practices and products every article. But the process that needs the most attention for our economy to become truly sustainable is the products’ entire life-cycle process...
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Maasai Tribe Receives Sustainable Technology from Monarch Power
Many under developed countries greatly need the sustainable technologies that have begun to be implemented into first-world countries. Monarch Power is making large strides in helping this happen. The...
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Old Books Meet New Technologies in Book Mountain
In today’s world, digital drive is the basis for everything. It makes business sense to want an international connection and it also is common sense to want everything available at the touch of a...
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SWITCH’s New LED Replacement to Incandescent Light Bulbs
I work for a lighting company in Denver as a Lighting and Design Consultant and I cannot tell you how many times in a week that people will tell me they do not want to use a more sustainable light...
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CSO Arquitectura’s Modular Housing System: SAVMS
I keep hearing more and more about modular housing and the technology is very impressive but when will I hear of someone I know actually buying and living in one? Perhaps the key to getting this as...
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Case Study: Eagleyew – A High Efficiency Natural Building on Vancouver...
The Story of Eagleyew: A High Efficiency Natural Building on Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada I’m pleased to say that I have been building Natural Buildings for a number of years now. My work has taken...
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The Living is the Winner
Annually the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and MoMA PS1 recognize upcoming, young architects from the Young Architects Program (YAP). YAP was established in 2000 and designed to solidify the affiliation...
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Introducing the Elio
It is always nice to have choices or alternatives to the newest trends. As an individual, if you aren’t sold on driving a hybrid car or owning a fully battery-operated vehicle, what is the next best...
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Can a Bubble Protect Beijing?
There was a silly movie called Bubble Boy that was released in 2001. It was about a boy who did not have an immune system so he lived his life in a bubble. Can places adapt this same bubble-like...
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Prototype Transitional Housing in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a city, like many others, that is facing huge population and industrial growth but does not have housing enough to meet all those needs. There are more than 280,000 individuals living in...
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Luminous Ceiling Provides Future of Lighting
In a move that brings science fiction predictions to reality, Philips is introducing its OneSpace luminous ceiling to the world. OneSpace integrates LED lights with a fabric to create a white light...
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3D Printed Buildings Speed Up Construction
Will the buildings of the future be printed? Chinese construction materials company Winsun New Materials says it has printed 10 houses on its new 3-D printer that cost them about $3.2 million to...
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AIA’s Top Ten 2014 List
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) released its Top Ten Projects of 2014. In alphabetical order, they are: Arizona State University Student Health Services Building Bud Clark Commons Bushwick...
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Microgrid Alliance Forms to Promote Technology
Earlier this week, the Microgrid Alliance (MGA) announced its formation. Its goal is to be a collective voice for companies and other stakeholders involved in microgrids. Microgrids are small-scale...
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6 Building Materials of the Future
These futuristic building materials will change the way we construct buildings in the years to come. 1. Graphene Graphene is a one-atom thick layer of carbon. It is thin, strong, flexible, conducts...
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