In this episode, we interview Meg Calkins, Department Head and Professor of Landscape Architecture at North Carolina Statue University (NCSU) to discuss the synchronization of sustainable design and materials in landscape architecture.
2021 brings with it the opportunity to get back to life as we knew it. Back to our families, back to our offices, back to shopping and dining at restaurants. But these spaces, as we knew them, are not the…
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In this episode of Build Green Live Green, we talk to Ginger Dosier of bioMASON, a masonry manufacturer that's growing a better future.
In this episode, we will discuss upcoming industry trends.
Imagine spending four billion years in school. That is a lot of education, and it forms the baseline for everything around us as we know it. For billions of years, nature has been adapting and evolving to changing temperatures, sea levels, climates, canopies and weather patterns, constantly learning and adjusting to survive.
Building has evolved for a few thousand years, starting with rocks, peaking with glass-clad high rises across the globe, and now settling back into an attempted harmony with nature.
We are optimistic about the trend of bringing nature into the space through Biophilic Design, and we are eager to see more widespread adoption of Biomimicry on its heels.
We have created a living library of installed building materials in our showroom. We welcome the architect and design community to come to explore, touch and visualize their projects with just in time materials and samples at their disposal. …
This episode will cover ways to implement sustainable design practices in schools and the benefits that it can have.
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Healthy, biophilic, sustainable, you name it: wood is good.
The defacto, easy, unhealthy insulation option lurking in walls and attics, is invariably pink. When discerning clients question what is in the walls, it is inevitably gypsum and fiberglass, two energy intensive building bad-boys that get picked because they come with familiarity and a low price tag. But what is the cost of this low price tag? What are we sacrificing when it comes to the health of our homes and those that dwell within its walls? Beyond the pink, fluffy, and slightly noxious horizon lives a small handful of viable, healthy insulation options that promote the health of not just your home, but your family.
This episode will discuss biomimicry and how it is imperative in sustainable design practices.
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What can three billion years of evolution teach us? We are so reliant on our ability to innovate and research new ways to do things based on technology, that we often forget to consider the most innovative research of all: time.
Read more to learn about Biomimicry in the Built Environment.