On Sunday, the Boston Globe ran a piece titled “It’s Alive! How closely can a building emulate nature?” giving some solid, mainstream attention to the concepts of biomimicry and regenerative design as well as the Living Building Challenge.
The article references one of my favorite biomimetic examples, the termite mound:
In 1996, a landmark project was completed: the Eastgate Centre, [...]
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Biomimicry in the Mainstream
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Building Green on PBS
By Georges Dyer, Partner, Aedi Group
Building Green is a TV series on healthy, energy-efficient, and environmentally-friendly building (free & on-demand on hulu!). The first episode, “Breaking Ground,” introduces the strawbale home project in Santa Barbara that the series will follow through to completion. It also features Aedi Group Advisory Board member, Bill Browning. Have a [...]
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Concord Green
by Georges Dyer, Partner, Aedi Group
Our construction team has had the great pleasure over the past few months to work on an exciting project in Concord, MA. The owner has a real passion for healthy, green building without sacrificing classic design. And she has done an unbelievable job documenting the entire process on her blog [...]
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Whole systems and big energy cuts
by Georges Dyer, Partner Aedi Group
Today’s Wall Street Journal had a great quick read on energy efficiency retrofits in large commercial buildings – focused largely on the Empire State Building renovation. It does a good job of showing how taking a whole-system approach makes it possible to achieve much deeper energy efficiency improvements with lower [...]
Integrated Design on Campus
By Georges Dyer, Partner, Aedi Group
Kyoto Publishing, in partnership with the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment and Second Nature, just released a new report: The Climate Neutral Campus Report.
It includes a good piece by Doug Gatlin of the USGBC, titled: “A Holistic Approach to Green Building.” A quick excerpt brings home the important [...]
