Category: Sustainability
Sustainability means using resources within certain constraints. We have felt that progress on environmental sustainability must include the hands and decisions of those who design, build, repair and manage our buildings and infrastructure. After all, the facilities sector accounts for 30-60% of the energy budget of the world – depending on how you count. Asset management, resource management and facilities management are methods that provide feedback for achieving these goals. Projects we categorize as sustainability also include ideas that give us fresh insights into solving our problems. Curiosity, imagination and goodwill are necessary components of the way forward.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Blankets?
When does it become common knowledge how to reduce building energy consumption by 80%, at the same cost, compared to the building code?
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Tie It Altogether
I’ve been designing for a long time. I have seen patterns of assumptions, decisions and implementation that bring us shy of our goals. It bothers me.
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Don’t Forget Your Keys
If you renovate today and don’t reduce your energy consumption radically, are you preventing yourself, and us, from future gains?
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Zero Emissions Questions
Questions I’m asking to fill holes in my knowledge.
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Removing Yourself From the Equation
Your job is to start something wonderful and give it away.
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The Weight of the World
“What we truly need is to create a ‘surround sound’ where, no matter what sector you turn to, there is a signal saying, ‘Folks, we are moving toward a low-carbon economy.”
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New Patterns
bmw i3 behavior. What happens when can only go 80 miles? For $32k?
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Reality Is Broken Cards
Jane McGonigal has an infectious attitude and an arresting thesis: games are the cure for what ails us. We developed these cards from her 2011 “Reality is Broken” title as reminders and rut busters.
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Enterprise Architecture Mapping
Putting the ‘Map’ in Enterprise Mapping
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I Know Exactly How Many People It Takes
Putting the ‘Map’ in Enterprise Mapping