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2008 DesignIntelligence Sustainable Design Survey
“Creativity, Leadership, and the New Green Standard” is the theme of the 2008 sustainability issue from DesignIntellicence. Our survey tabulates the responses of leaders of the most successful design firms…
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- 09/26/05 Sustainability Roundtable: Green Design Moves from Trend to Standard The fourth-annual Leadership Summit on Sustainable Design is fast approaching, and the topics of discussion centering around this concept are endless. We narrowed the playing field and asked a handful of the leaders on this topic in the United States some select questions to provide their viewpoints on today’s state of sustainability.
- 09/08/05 Carpet Giant Uses Alternative Fuel Source to Run Plant Shaw Industries is opening a $10-million power plant in the carpet capital of the United States, Dalton, Ga., which will be fueled by 16,000 tons of the company’s own carpet scraps and 6,000 tons of sawdust from its wood flooring operations.
- 05/26/05 The Importance of Being Bucky (Buckminster Fuller) An Unorthodox Primer on How to Be Great. As a 20th century futuristic practitioner and iconic philosopher, “Bucky” Fuller was and is, an architect’s architect and a scientist’s scientist.
- 04/27/05 Incorporating Green Principles Can Benefit Elder-Friendly Design Sustainable design can be ideally suited for environments in which housing and care for frail seniors is provided. While the advantages of green buildings extend to all users and inhabitants, they may be especially beneficial to elders and long-term care providers. These benefits fall into four principal categories: air and climate, light and views, community and nature, and cost control.
- 03/21/05 4th Annual Sustainable Design Summit Set for November The location for the DFC’s annual sustainability meeting for design leaders has just been announced:
- 01/14/05 Changing Values about PVC as Environmentally Friendly In the last days of December, the USGBC concluded a review of the environmental and health issues related to vinyl (PVC) building products and released a draft report that concluded that that PVC is not consistently worse than alternative materials on a life-cycle environmental and health basis.
- 08/15/04 LEED Cost Does Not Have to Inflate Project Budget A recent analysis of LEED-seeking projects by Davis Langdon Adamson found no significant premium costs for using green products and practice to achieve certification.
- 08/15/04 Living Roof Earns Green Kudos and Floor-Ratio Bonus When Chicago’s Bank One decided to go with architect DeStefano + Partners’ plan for a green roof on one of the complex’s low-rise towers, the city granted an increase of five square feet for every one square foot of planned green roof.
- 08/15/04 What Two Years Can Do In looking at stats prior to our first Leadership Summit on Sustainability in 2002, we published the following states as having the fewest LEED-accredited professionals.
- 08/15/04 If It’s Not Criticized, It’s Not Leadership When you step into a leadership position you become the target of criticism and second-guessing, likely beyond what you are prepared for…It is a permanent price that you pay, so learn to cope with it.
