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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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- 08/11/08 Creativity, Leadership, and the New Green Standard Formerly in the lexicon of crunchy-granola types alone, words like “sustainability” now hold cachet. That’s because Americans are going green. And that’s a word design firms can relate to.
- 08/11/08 1 The Making of Assumptions and Trusting to Luck: Process Implications of Sustainability and Technology Process Implications of Sustainability and Technology. The current interest in improving building industry outcomes and enhancing collaboration among architectural, engineering, and construction players comes along at exactly the right time for green design to catch the wave.
- 08/11/08 Attention: Performance Marker Ahead Data is beginning to trickle out regarding actual performance as a result of the steps being taken to reduce energy use in buildings. The numbers indicate a need to raise the bar on performance standards.
- 08/11/08 Adaptive Structures: Building for Performance and Sustainability The technology to support adaptive building systems is both available and dependable. Adaptive façades are poised to capitalize on technology transfer from other disciplines, which can allow the building industry to mass produce sustainable building parts and bring down the cost of these systems to attractive levels.
- 08/11/08 Aligning Sustainability in Professional Practice and Education Increased student interest in sustainability coupled with a rising public policy commitment to green design and increasing energy costs augurs for greater involvement of design schools and the profession in teaching and research related to ecologically sensitive design.
- 08/11/08 1 The Sustainability Benefits of a Curious Approach We don’t yet understand the long-term causes and effects at the intersection of natural phenomena and human behavior. But we do know that creating long-term value in our resource-constrained world will require a unified approach to design.
- 07/15/08 Design for the Birds Bird safety is integral to the sustainable building movement, and a new manual offers guidelines, techniques, and strategies.
- 06/23/08 Nanoscale Materials for Sustainable Design Sustainable design has often been associated with a craft-based approach to building, yet while rammed-earth and timber-frame construction remain popular and straw-bale walls are fast becoming commonplace, much of sustainable design today has its roots in the science of high-tech materials.
- 06/16/08 Integration Key to Sustainable Product Design A new report describes how companies such as Nike, Herman Miller, and Clorox create internal and external alignments to achieve sustainable design goals.
- 05/14/08 Digital Design: Empowering Innovation and Environmental Response Three-dimensional modeling allows team members to push ideas to new levels while getting fast feedback that allows them to optimize all aspects of a building.
