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Green LA maps road to 100% renewables
Just weeks before it hosts USGBC’s Greenbuild 2016, the City of Los Angeles
has set its sites on an epic Hollywood makeover. The birthplace of smog now
is aiming to clean up its act and switch from fossil fuels to 100%
renewable energy sources ASAP.
Gang: Design-build dorm ‘supreme success’
Hogwarts in Hyde Park? The University of Chicago last week unveiled a new
$150-million, 400,000-sq-ft dormitory designed by renowned architect Jeanne
Gang, and built by Mortenson Construction. Read about their design-build
success story here.
Virginia to build $500M ‘smart city in-a-box’
Get Smart: Some 30 miles NW of DC, a high-powered team of designers,
developers, builders and technologists is forming to create a $500-million,
2.5-million-sq-ft, ‘Smart City In-a-Box’ platform they expect will be
transferrable all over the world.
Tall wood structures rising above doubts
Timber! Long-held reservations are falling for building tall with wood.
This week, the National Building Museum examines “the only building
material that can both reduce carbon emissions and remove carbon from the
atmosphere.” BuiltWorlds joins the discussion.
15 years on, Ground Zero shows final card
Two announcements in two days last week showed how the page is turning on
9/11. In Chicago, crews broke ground on a Chinese-funded, $1-billion,
98-story tower, while NYC unveiled the final piece to the World Trade
Center master plan.
Canstruction: AEC Rallies to Feed Hungry
How do companies like Gensler, Arup, and McShane Construction help fight
hunger? By designing and building structures out of cans — duh! While
Canstruction is an international organization, BuiltWorlds reporter Alexis
Chastain attended one of the regional events to find out more.
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