BIM’s complexity is what makes it so appealing – yet so opaque, at times – in terms of its potential for driving the green building and energy efficiency industries into the future.
Author Archive | Sarah Wesseler
Fish-texting, Nairobi, and Wikipedia: Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation Looks to the Future
By Sarah Wesseler on February 16, 2009 in Intellectual Property & Technology, Manhattan, New York City, Software, Upper West Side
Columbia’s architecture school is plotting a bold future for how the profession will design and deliver 21st century projects.
USGBC New York Sponsors Discussion on Sustainable Design in Universities
A recent discussion at The New School – “The University as Green Crucible” – discussed how sustainability, green design, and green business can play a more significant role in higher education.
LEED Goes to School: Considering Green Design in the Architecture Classroom
Having devoted his career to green design, Azizan Aziz, a senior research architect at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture, has watched with great interest as USGBC’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system has become a major force in in the buildings industry. With its slick branding and status symbol cachet, LEED represents the first successful mainstreaming of sustainable building. Through it, says Aziz, green design has been embraced by many who once dismissed it as “just for beatniks and hippies.” However, recent reports indicate that many of Aziz’s colleagues in higher education are less enthusiastic about these developments.
