California Title 24 and the Virtual Environment - Standards Play

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Last time I wrote about 4 major initiatives that the entire building industry needs to come to grips with, and quickly.  Al Gore has famously modified that African proverb: “if you want to go quickly, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together.  We have to go far quickly.” I ...

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Architecture or Engineering…Or Somewhere in Between?

Friday, October 17th, 2008

An integrated design process is proving to be the key to achieving high-performance, sustainable buildings.  By bringing all of the project stakeholders to the table at the early conceptual stage of the process, the team can set forth with a common set of goals.  The result is that sustainable strategies ...

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