By the time a building is abandoned and falls into disrepair, its community is already suffering. Michigan scholars suggest it’s time to plan for structures’ end of life before they even go up.
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What exactly is the ‘built environment’?And is the term the best way to frame what we’re trying to achieve today?
How to move beyond the warm words about tackling urban heat islands to doing something about them.
Building features can be analyzed in the same way that facial recognition software works, revealing previously hidden elements of history.
Business scholars have found that our physical environment can influence us in a variety of surprising ways – including by prompting us to engage in riskier behavior depending on elevation.
From falcons that hunt by the light of skyscrapers, to bears that sit in wait at weirs, animals are using human structures to help them catch a meal.
Buildings are central to creating more sustainable cities, and green ratings are often used to assess how well a building measures up against this goal. But the current system has serious flaws.
Solar windows would need to trap enough light to generate power, while letting through enough to keep buildings light. Thankfully, newly developed semitransparent cells offer to do just that.
Three innovative projects set to be completed this year are geared toward strengthening communities that have been left out of the economic recovery.
Adaptively re-using buildings can preserve heritage while enabling new uses that help make cities more liveable and sustainable.
When talking about heritage, we need to be clear about our definitions and our objectives for each building. Then we can work on achieving the optimum balance of heritage and sustainability.
By putting the users of buildings – people – at the centre of the process of designing buildings and infrastructure, we can create healthier, more human-centred spaces.
The invention of silver and plastic-clad roof panels that can cool themselves down even under the Sun’s full glare promise to make air conditioning much more energy-efficient.
Water moves into Australian homes during severe tropical storms like Cyclone Debbie. But no definitive housing codes, standards or guidelines exist to stem the flow of unwanted storm water.
Adaptive reuse and recycling of heritage architecture may be all the rage, but are not new. Making new buildings from old has a long history in the ancient world.
George Washington had Mount Vernon. Thomas Jefferson had Monticello. Now Trump has his eponymous tower. Can it stimulate a more creative, sustainable approach to building skyscrapers?
In the past, demolishing the dictator’s residences created a void exploited by Nazi sympathizers.
Poor thermostat settings are making people uncomfortable and wasting hundreds of millions of dollars, an analysis shows. What can be done about this?
Tragedies involving building collapses prompt structural engineers to figure out what happened, and how to prevent it from recurring.
Yesterday’s earthquake in central Italy has resulted in many deaths. But it is not the earthquake that claims victims but our built infrastructure. Why is this so?
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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
