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Purple-Roof Concept CASE STUDY: Princeton University! 🌿 Princeton University is set to install a cutting-edge 7,000 square foot Purple-Roof Concept system at the Environmental Studies & Commons Building in fall 2024. This innovative green roof features a 6+1+1 profile tailored for advanced stormwater management, showcasing the university's commitment to sustainability. Engineered to offer 1,405 cubic feet of retention and 1,967 cubic feet of detention, the Purple Roof system boasts a total stormwater storage capacity of 3,372 cubic feet. By significantly reducing the burden on local stormwater infrastructure, this integrated system will play a pivotal role in mitigating the impact of heavy rainfall. Noteworthy is the system's impressive 95% reduction in peak outflow, highlighting its exceptional efficiency in managing stormwater runoff. Princeton University's initiative underscores the importance of implementing sustainable solutions to address environmental challenges effectively. Design collaboration with Nitsch Engineering, Field Operations and Ennead Architects #Sustainability #GreenRoof #PrincetonUniversity 🌧️🌱

Purple-Roof Concept CASE STUDY: Princeton University! 🌿 Princeton University is set to install a cutting-edge 7,000 square foot Purple-Roof Concept system at the Environmental Studies & Commons Building in fall 2024. This innovative green roof features a 6+1+1 profile tailored for advanced stormwater management, showcasing the university's commitment to sustainability. Engineered to offer 1,405 cubic feet of retention and 1,967 cubic feet of detention, the Purple Roof system boasts a total stormwater storage capacity of 3,372 cubic feet. By significantly reducing the burden on local stormwater infrastructure, this integrated system will play a pivotal role in mitigating the impact of heavy rainfall. Noteworthy is the system's impressive 95% reduction in peak outflow, highlighting its exceptional efficiency in managing stormwater runoff. Princeton University's initiative underscores the importance of implementing sustainable solutions to address environmental challenges effectively. Design collaboration with Nitsch Engineering, Field Operations and Ennead Architects #Sustainability #GreenRoof #PrincetonUniversity 🌧️🌱

This is just the first small part of yet more ground breaking research by University College Dublin Oliver Kinnane Philip Comerford Irish Green Building Council. But it is enough to show that it is time to move the #embodiedcarbon discussion beyond the building and the home itself. We need to move beyond looking at just kg/CO2e per meter square. It is as much about the #planning typologies of homes we build as the carbon intensity of the materials we use to build them. The Irish #planning system will now need to get serious about aligning housing need, with the quadruple crises of #housing #climate #biodiversity #floodprotection. This requires a radical change in development standards. There can no longer be any place for over provision of car parking, inefficient road and development layouts in urban or rural areas. It means an end to oversized homes (>130m2) inefficient typologies and in particular schemes of detached and semi detached homes. The Irish housing crisis or the #climatecrisis building cannot be solved with the type of home currently being put on the market, which use infrastructure and resources with such obscene inefficiency. The total new built residential area in Ireland 2022 was enough to house over 50,000 households if it had been optimised to align with CSO average household size. Instead only 29,000 new homes were created. Its no longer near enough to build an energy efficient home, they must be optimised for #landuse #density #formfactor, #size and the infrastructure must be optimised for #resourceuse #biodiversity and #climateresilience

Interesting Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology combined with building performance optimization analysis to refurbish hospitals.

May 14, 2024 @ 1:30 pm PT. Join Veronica Madonna at the RAIC 2024 Conference on Architecture in Vancouver for her presentation: "Building Healthier Futures: Using LCA to Drive Industry Buy-In for Sustainable Construction.” In light of the urgent climate crisis, our session will explore mass timber as a pivotal low-carbon solution in construction, focusing on its application in educational buildings and northern housing projects. Discover insights from two critical feasibility studies in Ontario: one on mass timber in primary schools and another on modular housing in Northwestern Ontario's workforce communities. The presentation will illustrate the use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), cost-carbon analysis, and health metrics to present a robust case for mass timber's benefits across environmental, social, and governance dimensions. We're committed to driving industry innovation, shaping policy, and promoting the adoption of sustainable materials for a climate-resilient future. #SustainableConstruction #MassTimber #ClimateAction #BuildingTheFuture

Join CEM & president of CIB, International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction to learn more about Advancements in Sustainable Building Technologies: Enhancing Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategies in the Built Environment on campus this Friday with Aslihan Karatas-Fredenburg, Ph.D., LEED AP, the principal investigator of the Built Environment and Infrastructure Laboratory at University of Illinois Chicago. The US building sector accounts for 29% of total energy consumption, 40% of electricity usage, and responsible for 40% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Within this sector, building envelope systems play a pivotal role, contributing to 28% of building energy consumption. This seminar will draw examples of how building envelope systems, especially in the context of industrialized construction practices, can effectively address the challenges posed by climate resilience while integrating principles of environmental justice. Particular attention will be given to the thermal and moisture performance of building envelope systems, along with the measurement methods employed to assess their effectiveness. The ultimate goal will be to propose modifications to energy and building codes and measurement methods and tools, advocating for their adaptation to ultimately lead to more efficient and effective building designs in the future. Friday, February 23, 2024 STEW G52 11:30 am - 12:20 pm

Here's a chance for UW students,faculty and staff to showcase their climate change related projects and ideas. #climatesolutions #climateresearch #collegeofbuiltenvironments #universityofwashington #climateadaptation https://lnkd.in/gRKCbkU9

Identifying and enhancing natural processes to control flood water and ‘slow the flow’ is the most sustainable solution for managing the effects of extreme weather events and increasing resilience. At Sweco, #SuDS (Sustainable Drainage Systems) are a specialism within our wider #NatureBasedSolutions consultancy portfolio, and we can also advise on all aspects of complementary blue-green infrastructure with collaboration across our multi-disciplinary landscape architecture, urban planning, ecology, placemaking and transport infrastructure teams. Contact our experts to discuss your sustainable drainage options: https://lnkd.in/edC26sbH More on Nature-based Solutions: https://lnkd.in/eAP7TEP4 #TransformingSocietyTogether #SwecoDifferenceMakers #SwecoUK #BlueGreen #WaterManagement #WaterEngineering #NaturalCapital #FloodMitigation #Flooding #WaterCareers #WaterConsultancy #ClimateEmergency

🌎 🌲 Have projects on climate solutions that you want to showcase? Submit your work for a chance to present your ideas at our inaugural Climate Solutions symposium, where students, faculty, and other experts will engage in exciting discussions about climate research, teaching, and learning initiatives currently underway. Posters will be displayed on Thursday, May 23, 2024 from 5:00–7:00pm in Gould Court. Submissions open to all UW Faculty, Students, and Staff. ‼️ Submissions are due May 8, 2024. 🔗 Registration link ➡️ https://bit.ly/3T7VFvp Submission Details: Posters should be formatted using the Climate Solutions template, available on the registration page. Submissions should address teaching, research, or university actions specifically related to climate change and solutions. Ongoing and complete projects are accepted. UW Architecture UW Landscape Architecture UW Construction Management Runstad Department of Real Estate, University of Washington #Architecture #ConstructionManagement #LandscapeArchitecture #RealEstate #UrbanDesignAndPlanning #CBE #BuiltEnvironments #CollegeOfBuiltEnvironments

For my fellow planners and others involved in local climate resilience - this looks like a really useful workshop. "This webinar will focus on the role municipalities can play in adopting cool roofs in the region and tools and resources available to do that, such as: - Educational outreach materials - How to use land use policy and zoning to encourage cool roofs adoption - Model procurement language for municipal facilities retrofitting a roof - Online cool roof suitability map"