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Brad Wilkins – Introduction

Brad Wilkins (born 1976) is an American architect. He is a senior designer at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture a firm that specializes in sustainable, large, mixed-use buildings. He has worked on the Chicago Olympic effort, the world’s tallest building (the Burj Khalifa), and the world’s first ”zero energy” supertall, the Pearl River Tower. [...]

Building Act 1984 – Introduction

Building Act 1984 is a United Kingdom statute and is the enabling Act under which the Building Regulations, which extend to England and Wales have been made. Sections 1(1) and 1(1A) read: “Power to make building regulations. 1.—(1)The Secretary of State, under the power given in the Building Act 1984, may for any purposes of: [...]

Information and communication technologies for environmental sustainability – Application areas

More and more application areas are becoming relevant to sustainable development in industry, health care, agriculture and the information society. And they have an impact on the perspectives of ICT, the environment, policy and science. More and more interest has been emerged as well to risk and disaster management, adaptation to climate change and resource [...]

Economy of Ukraine – Energy

Ukraine imports 90% of its oil and most of its natural gas. Russia ranks as Ukraine’s principal supplier of oil, and Russian firms now own and/or operate the majority of Ukraine’s refining capacity. Natural gas imports come from Russia – which delivers its own gas, as well as the gas from Turkmenistan. Instead, Ukraine is [...]

Curtis W. Fentress – Sustainability

Fentress Architects has been recognized as a pioneer in sustainable design since the early 1990s. The firm’s green practices were acknowledged first in 1993 with the Architecture and Energy Award for the Natural Resources Building in Olympia, Washington. It was the first project to ever set indoor air quality improvement as a goal at the [...]

Plywood – Production

Plywood production requires a good log, called a peeler, which is generally straighter and larger in diameter than one required for processing into dimensioned lumber by a sawmill. The log is laid horizontally and rotated about its long axis while a long blade is pressed into it (rather like turning a Swiss Roll against the [...]

Self-sufficiency – Introduction

Self-sufficiency refers to the state of not requiring any outside aid, support, or interaction, for survival; it is therefore a type of personal or collective autonomy. On a large scale, a totally self-sufficient economy that does not trade with the outside world is called an autarky. The term self-sufficiency is usually applied to varieties of [...]

Future car technologies – Introduction

future car technologies include new energy sources and materials, which are being developed in order to make automobiles more sustainable, safer, more energy efficient, or less polluting. Cars are being developed in many different ways. With rising gas prices, the future of cars is leaning towards fuel efficiency, energy-savers, hybrid vehicles, battery electric vehicles and [...]

Renewable energy in the United Kingdom – Microgeneration

Microgeneration technologies are seen as having considerable potential by the Government. However the microgeneration strategy they launched in March 2006 was seen as a disappointment by many commentators. Microgeneration involves the local production of electricity by homes and businesses from low-energy sources including small scale wind turbines, ground source heat pumps and solar electricity installations. [...]

Cambridge University Eco Racing – Information

CUER is based in the University’s Department of Engineering and comprises around 80 undergraduate members from several departments of Cambridge University. As well as having a large student body, the team is strongly supported by a number of academic and industrial advisers, some of whom supervise research projects in relevant fields. The team was founded [...]

European Mobility Week – Introduction

European Mobility Week is an event, politically supported by the European Commission, DG Environment, that consists of a whole week of awareness raising events focusing on various aspects of sustainable transport in European cities. The Car Free Day on 22nd of September is part of the whole Mobility Week. The general objective of this event [...]

Ecuador – Iran relations – Economic relations

Economic ties have grown during the Correa and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration. Like other states in Latin America, Iran has extended financing for a host of projects. Ecuador, in turn, has become the primary importer of Iranian products having replaced Peru. Trade between the two went from a paltry $8m to $168m from 2007 to 2008. [...]

Ecotricity – History

Ecotricity was started by Dale Vince in 1995, with a single wind turbine he had used to power an old army truck he called home on a hill near Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. From this Dale went on to commercially build Wind monitoring equipment (which the company still does to day using the name [http://www.nexgenwind.com [...]

Mobile fab lab – Travel Log

* August 2007: Chicago, Illinois during The Fourth International Fab Lab Forum and Symposium on Digital Fabrication * August 2007: Road trip from Chicago to Nevada to Boston. Random people were invited to come inside the trailer and make things. This trip included short visits to Black Rock City, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and [...]

Kohn Pedersen Fox – Sustainability

Since its founding, KPF has helped develop many sustainable design innovations. The firm’s early experience in Europe, where energy efficient design was the norm, fostered a sustainable design approach at KPF that was ahead of its time in the United States. This forward way of thinking, combined with the firm’s continuing innovations in climatic regionalism [...]

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