The explosive growth in green buildings over the past decade is flattening the built environment.
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Is this project related to the built environment or the urban residential setting?
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But Peter Murray, chairman of London's Centre for the Built Environment - an architectural forum - sounded a note of optimism.
According to the National Resources Defense Council, impervious spaces in the built environment generate 10 trillion gallons of untreated runoff per year.
Needless to say, even modest efficiency gains in the built environment typically translate into massive energy savings and emissions reductions in the aggregate.
When most of us think of infrastructure, we think of the built environment: roads, bridges, airports, power plants, cell phone towers, storm drains.
She got a couple of degrees in civil engineering and that got her thinking about applying her biological modeling work to the built environment.
The built environment has a huge impact on the environment and we were proud to be part of this effort to improve the industry.
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Suburbs are so popular that about 84% of people in England now live in them, according to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
But creating such a neighborhood in Las Vegas allows them to get the built environment they want while retaining the cost and labor market advantages of Nevada.
Looking at the built environment not only connects people from many professions to find solutions, but also has the potential to solve a multitude of societal ills.
While land-grabs and exploration for natural gas and renewables continues across the natural landscape, prospecting for a different prize has gradually taken hold in the built environment.
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Exciting new strategies and approaches have streamlined data logging, encouraged fit-for-purpose engineering, and bred innovative financing strategies aimed towards developing the untapped resource in the built environment.
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"The built environment can be more beautiful than nature and we shouldn't obsess about the fact that the only landscapes that are beautiful are open - sometimes buildings are better, " he said.
In recent years, the proliferation of new plug loads, ranging from clocks and computers to smartphones and set-top cables boxes, has shifted the flow of energy through the built environment.
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The series travels across the U.S., appraising the built environment in more than 20 cities, and featuring promising initiatives like the Atlanta Beltline and revitalization in downtown Detroit.
Watson points out that this convergence is rapidly becoming the case in the built environment, where an information rich ICT environment is taking hold, and sensors and metering are becoming more ubiquitous.
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Early in 2008, the Scottish government created a new Directorate for the Built Environment bringing together internal interests on planning, building standards and architecture with a view to greater co-ordination of policies.
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.
Peers also asked the government about the merger of the Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading, the future of the Fulbright Scholarship Programme, and design quality in the built environment.
Towards the end of the 19th century humans began to color the built environment: they began painting their houses, decorating their interiors, replacing wood, whitewash and leather with reds, blues, whites, greens, purples, yellow.
It will offer an interdisciplinary master's program focused at least at the outset on social media, health care and wellness, and architecture, sustainability and other aspects of the built environment, Cornell President David Skorton said.
This convergence of information and communications technology and physical infrastructure in the built environment is providing building owners and occupants with actionable information about a building or space that allows them manage that building or space more effectively.
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"The Metropolitan Open Land surrounding Hampstead Heath is an important buffer between the Heath and the surrounding built environment, " a spokeswoman said.
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Harry Reeves is currently Deputy Director, Culture, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) where he has been responsible for policy on architecture and the built and historic environment since September 2004.
Malcolm Higgins said he came up with the idea for the unusual home after the Environment Agency told him anything he built needed to be flood-resistant.
Christina Chapman, who is managing the consultation, said the homes would be built with environment and community in mind, but would also service a pressing need.
Built to withstand the habitually harsh environment of the Red Planet, Aerogel is also so chronically hydrophobic that the car should see service well after you and I have turned to dust and interesting memoirs.
"If you have bats roosting in your building, you can't disturb them in any way without getting a special license, " says Kelly Gunnell, Built Environment Officer with the Bat Conservation Trust, a charitable organization in London, England.
He explained that it was not possible to determine the cause, but that the changes could be linked to the environment - more specifically to pollutants that have built up in the Arctic, and in the polar bears' bodies.
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