A building designed to be easily taken apart so the components can be reused is a model for much less wasteful construction. It reduces resource use and environmental impacts, and can be cheaper too.
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Experiments in college classrooms show how tiny respiratory droplets known as aerosols can spread, even with good ventilation. The risk isn’t the same in every seat.
To achieve sustainable, functional buildings, architects in cities like Lagos need to consider local realities.
When water stagnates in pipes, harmful metals and bacteria can accumulate and make people sick. Buildings that were shut down for weeks during the pandemic may be at risk.
When thinking about better uses for temporarily vacant buildings caused by the pandemic, Australia can learn much from the UK.
Bricks turn out to be useful for storing electricity thanks to their porousness and red pigment.
If more people work from home and shop online, many commercial buildings won’t be needed any longer. What will be needed is affordable housing, and these buildings can be converted to meet this need.
Algorithms can now work out the best ways to lay out rooms, construct buildings and even change them over time to meet user needs.
Net zero energy buildings produce at least as much energy as they use. Designing whole net zero campuses and communities takes the energy and climate benefits to a higher level.
As sand markets boom, entrepreneurs, organized crime and others are cashing in — leaving widespread environmental damage in their wake.
Office buildings have been left mostly empty for weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic, leaving standing water in pipes where harmful organisms can grow. What happens when those buildings reopen?
We spend 90% of our lives indoors, and every building has its own indoor microbiome. Can we learn to manage them in ways that support helpful microbes and suppress harmful ones?
Buildings soak up the sun’s heat, but research shows that white roofs and surfaces can reduce temperatures inside, particularly during heat waves.
Researchers are turning microbes into microscopic construction crews by altering their DNA to make them produce building materials. The work could lead to more sustainable buildings.
Federal building guidelines say that ‘development of an official style must be avoided’ – which is exactly what a leaked executive order is trying to do.
The tall buildings of our cities kill horrifying numbers of birds. But some cities are adopting mandatory design measures to cut the toll.
Our climate is changing – and so must architecture.
It’s now officially the end of hurricane season, but the rebuilding of the Bahamas continues, slowed by the risks imposed by a history of colonialism and class division.
Governments and regulators assume compliance with building regulations will restore public confidence. But complying with the National Construction Code won’t fix many common defects.
Making better use of existing building space is a neglected but essential way to cut our carbon emissions. The key is human behaviour. Good low-carbon citizens will help create good low-carbon cities.
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Visiting Scientist, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Construction Technology, The University of Melbourne
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Fellow and Senior Research Associate, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Advanced Building Design, University of Hertfordshire
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Lecturer in Construction and Property, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer in Architecture, Practice and Design, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer In Construction, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Sustainable Development, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ecological Engineering, Director of the Healthy Plumbing Consortium and Center for Plumbing Safety, Purdue University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professor, Murdoch University
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Professor in Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
