Sustainable design elements include plenty of daylight and fresh air, green space in the form of terraced gardens and water conservation.
The proposals suggest the use of modular design and some include sustainable design such as solar paneling, the housing department said Thursday.
According to FEMA, renewable energy infrastructure has performed well in extreme weather events, demonstrating that sustainable design and increased resilience go hand in hand.
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To what extent should sustainable design principles be encouraged or required?
Michael Pawlyn, a British architect specializing in sustainable design and founding member of the project, says bringing together clusters of synergistic technologies creates a new paradigm.
As an inventor, entrepreneur and currently the director of Product Innovation for SolidWorks, Chin has been a pioneer of 3 Dimensional printing, digital modeling software and, more recently, sustainable design practices.
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Construction is already under way for the members-only lodge, a sustainable design that has replaced the former log cabin look with a modern, yurtish style that Walker describes as a Star Wars arctic base.
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Autodesk was attracted to the playground project because of its proximity to the firm's downtown offices, its focus on children and its ecologically sustainable design, which is a core element of Autodesk's business, says Greg Eden, a spokesman for the company.
In the case of a massively multi-player (MMO) game such as WoW, its content has to be sustainable by design.
Mr. Lutz, who is the co-director of the sustainable-design program at the University of Minnesota's architecture school, liked the fact this house was prefabricated, thus requiring less energy and resources to build.
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Alex Steffen is the executive editor of Worldchanging.com, which covers sustainable technology, design and innovation, and editor of the book Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century.
Right now the tool is geared toward assessing the sustainability of existing products, but plans are in the works to roll out a tool that could be integrated into design and manufacturing processes early on to help gauge the potential impacts of various decisions and enable companies to design more sustainable products.
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This is particularly true for the human-centered design process -- empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test -- as outlined by the Institute of Design at Stanford, also known as "the d.school" where, in the interest of full disclosure, I have coached a design course called Sustainable Abundance.
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The only way to defeat his predictions is to design a stable, sustainable system, and time is running out.
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future has a simple visual design, based on an attractive range of colours and icons.
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First understand the objectives of your target audience, then design and position your sustainable product or initiative in such a way that it helps them achieve their objectives.
Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General, Education Sector, and the direct supervision of the Director of the Division of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, the incumbent will lead the design, coordination, execution and evaluation efforts for programme and projects and play a significant role in policy and strategy direction, development and integration, and resource optimization.
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The opportunities for sustainable energy strategies are everywhere, beginning with the design of buildings, to construction processes, to insulation, the HVAC system, the lights, the water, the elevators, the power and cooling for technology, the heating and cooling for people.
Over the course of 48-hours, participants self-organized into teams and worked with The Design Gym to tackle six of the greatest challenges facing sustainable meat like fragmented communication along the meat supply chain, the impact of consolidation on rural communities and labeling confusion for consumers.
The school also is raising money to establish what it calls a center for resilient design, which would act as a clearinghouse for information on sustainable architecture.
For the first time in an almost 10-year run of urban design conferences held around the world, the French Minister of Sustainable Development selected New York and its zoning innovations for study.
National and local government agencies need to be supported to develop their capacity to design and implement low cost appropriate systems that are efficient, sustainable, managed by local communities, targeted at those most in need and that address multiple needs of the poor.
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"My job is to try to design and establish a robust multi-purpose forest which will be sustainable in the long run, " he said.
In some design and marketing, Korea is better than Japan -- Honda has even started to benchmark Korea as an index of design. (But) Korea's improvements are not a sustainable trend.
Starting in the cyclone-prone region of the Sunderbans in West Bengal, Dilip is enabling communities to use disaster management as a starting point from which to launch efforts to prioritize real needs and design programs that both strengthen communities for the long-term and further the aims of sustainable development.
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The newly launched Digital Media Education Center at Delgado Community College, for example, trains students in video game design and post-production film work in an effort develop an indigenous workforce and ensure a sustainable industry in New Orleans.
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The Danish Architecture Centre on the waterfront in the Christianshavn area focuses on design for the built environment and offers guided tours of changing exhibitions, with an emphasis on environmentally-sustainable architecture.
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