6 characteristics of a successful adaptive reuse conversion
In the continuous battle against housing shortages and the surplus of vacant buildings, developers are turning their attention to the viability of adaptive reuse for their properties.
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In the continuous battle against housing shortages and the surplus of vacant buildings, developers are turning their attention to the viability of adaptive reuse for their properties.
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and executive architect BNIM have unveiled their design for a new mass timber cube structure called the Makersâ KUbe for the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design. A six-story, 50,000-sf building for learning and collaboration, the light-filled KUbe will house studio and teaching space, 3D-printing and robotic labs, and a ground-level cafe, all organized around a central core.
The Biden Administration recently released âDecarbonizing the U.S. Economy by 2050: A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector,â a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from buildings by 65% by 2035 and 90% by 2050.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has opened the first public comment period for the first draft of LEED v5. The new version of the LEED green building rating system will drive deep decarbonization, quality of life improvements, and ecological conservation and restoration, USGBC says.Â
The impetus behind Harvard's Center for Green Buildings and Cities is what the design schoolâs dean, Mohsen Mostafavi, describes as a ârapidly urbanizing global economy,â in which cities are building new structures âon a massive scale.âÂ
A new report from the World Green Building Council finds âoverwhelming evidenceâ to support office design as a significant influencer of the health, wellbeing and productivity of staff.
The study showed that demand for the LEED Accredited Professional and LEED Green Associate credentials grew 46 percent over a 12-month period.
None of the hundreds of existing green building rating systems is perfect. Some of them are too documentation-heavy. Some increase short-term project cost. Some arenât rigorous enough or include contentious issues, writes HDR's Michaella Wittmann.
The Armstrong facility is the first building in Pennsylvania and among only 17 buildings globally to achieve recertification at the highest level possible under USGBCâs LEED-EBOM program.
In this new partnership, LEED will benefit from the materials expertise of ACC and its member companies. We believe this has the potential to be transformational, writes Skanska USA's President and CEO Michael McNally.
The LEED Proven Provider designation is designed to minimize the need for additional work during the project review process.
The buildingâs custom-fabricated wall panels look like copper, but are actually flat metal sheets coated with Valsparâs signature Fluropon Copper Penny coating.
Within the architectural community, a movement called "active design" seeks to convert barren and unappealing stairwells originally conceived as emergency contingencies into well-designed architectural focal points. SPONSORED CONTENT