Green university to be built on polluted swamp
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Dhaka – A polluted swamp in Bangladesh is set to be
transformed into a green university. BRAC University will showcase
sustainable, low-tech solutions, including natural cooling and
vertical
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Pandemics pose urban planning problems
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Chicago – COVID-19 could impact how cities are designed. Urban
density, the decentralization of essential services, data
aggregation and the digital response all come into play.
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Pandemics pose urban planning problems
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Chicago – COVID-19 could impact how cities are designed. Urban
density, the decentralization of essential services, data
aggregation and the digital response all come into play.
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Solar-powered office building keeps workers cool
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Ahmedabad – Stellar, a solar-powered commercial building,
recently opened in India. It features a rainwater harvesting system
and terraces to deflect the sun and mitigate high
temperatures.
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Net-zero-energy building takes shape in Boston
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Boston – A building destined for Boston could signal a new way
of creating residential structures in cities. The cross-laminated
timber structure eliminates most greenhouse-gas emissions
associated with
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Sustainable building brick cuts construction waste
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Edinburgh – A Scottish startup company has created a recycled
building brick that is made almost entirely of construction waste.
The brick generates less than a tenth
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Trees and grass cool urban heat islands
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Dübendorf ZH/Zurich - Swiss researchers are analysing the
problem of increasing heat in cities. The Federal Laboratories for
Materials Science and Technology has developed initial model
calculations for
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Pritzker Prize goes to USI professors
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Lugano/Mendrisio TI - Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have
won the Pritzker Prize 2020. This means that the two professors
lecturing at the Università della Svizzera italiana
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Tree species strength-tested for new sustainable building material
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Amherst - Two tree species native to Northeast America have
been found to be structurally sound for use in cross-laminated
timber – a new type of building
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Thousands of trees to be planted in England’s cities
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London – Over 22,000 large trees and 28,000 small trees are to
be planted in urban areas across England. These will help improve
urban health and wellbeing,
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French public buildings to be made from 50% natural materials
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Paris – The French government has announced plans for all new
public buildings to built from at least 50 per cent timber or other
natural materials. The
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Researchers explore eco-friendly solutions for concrete
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Bern – The National Research Programme launched the joint
project Low Energy Concrete. The results now show the way to
climate-friendly use of concrete.
The...
Sidewalk Labs unveils prototype for world’s tallest mass-timber building
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Toronto – Sidewalk Labs has an unveiled a digital prototype
for what would become the world’s tallest mass-timber building. The
architecture arm of Google parent company Alphabet
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Cities are key to sustainable development
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Abu Dhabi – Cities are crucial for sustainable development
worldwide during the next decade, according to UN chief António
Guterres. Speaking at the World Urban Forum, he
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Researchers seeking to construct high-rise buildings from wooden blocks
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Lucerne – Researchers at the Lucerne University of Applied
Sciences and Arts have developed a concept for high-rise buildings
made from stackable wooden modules. These modules measure
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Self-driving, trackless tram sets off in China
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Yibin – An innovative tram has started traveling around Yibin
in southwestern China. Combining a bus, train and tram, the vehicle
is self-driving and can depart from
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Buildings can learn to save energy by themselves
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Dübendorf ZH – Empa researchers are devising ideas to help
buildings save power. In their experiments, they fed a
self-learning heating control system with temperature data
from
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Wooden buildings can act as a global carbon sink
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Potsdam – Wooden buildings have double the climate benefit
than their cement and steel counterparts: They produce less
greenhouse gas emissions and can even act as a
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Climate prize awarded for sustainable building
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Darmstadt – The German city of Darmstadt and the Climate
Action Working Group have awarded the Climate Prize for Sustainable
Building for the first time. One of
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Mayors of London and New York call for divestment
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London – Sadiq Khan and Bill de Blasio are calling on their
fellow mayors of major cities worldwide to join them in divesting
their city pension funds
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