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This proposed (2015) Teesside, UK 49 MW biomass plant will provide enough power for 50,000 homes, providing cleaner, lower carbon power. Inside, the power plant will also contain offices, a visitors’ centre and an education resource centre for renewable energy.
To master the extremes of a fast-changing competitive landscape, challenge your company’s assumptions about designing, developing, and manufacturing products for these regions. A McKinsey Quarterly article.
Solar Everywhere.
Since viewing this image a few days ago, it's been at the front of my mind and my laptop desktop ever since. I half love it for its sheer gusto, but I hate it for its blandness and unimaginative integration of PV tech. It reminds me of the first DIY computer kits from the 70s, the odd collections of circuit boards and wires you'd imagine Steve Jobs playing with in his garage. We can do better. We need a Steve Jobs of solar. BIPV can be elegant, integrated and doesn't have to dominate or infest like a virus as illustrated in this picture. It is coming.
In the future, those brands that take the lead, engage the consumers and drive the growth will be those that understand sustainability as a design challenge, rather than a communications problem.
http://www.sustainablebrands.com/news_and_views/communications/future-sustainability-design-not-communication
The world's first building with a bio-adaptive, algae facade opens in Hamburg as part of the International Building Exhibition.
iBuilding Updates Can't Be Automatically Downloaded
At a lecture at USC a couple years ago, I brought up the notion that buildings, like all products of technology, are inherently dated from inception. Buildings get "plugged in" to their urban infrastructure and are required to network and be good neighbors with whomever they are adjacent to.
As we've learned with urban development, most often our city's hard drives cannot be wiped clean and begun anew. We must always consider what technology has come before us, what languages they were programmed in; the fact that others may no longer be capable of downloading new software to have fast improvements. Hardware is difficult to replace so facelifts in the form of new screen protectors for our facades or add-on battery backups in the form of renewable energy generators must be accommodated. Older buildings are inherently slower, have sometimes bad connections and often drop calls.
As urban planners, architects, politicians and community members, we need to be respectful of all ages of building technology and meanwhile plan for, and design for, a connection with the next generation of infrastructure.
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Sam Lubell calls for streamlining bureaucracy to bring Los Angeles into the 21st century. - Short, direct, and lively, The Architect's Newspaper is the essential read in the field.
Switch, Discovering the Future of Energy is about changing the way we use energy, to realize the many economic and environmental benefits of efficiency.
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"[The array] is truly visionary, I will task the DWP with doing more of this kind of thing... This array is a beautiful representation of what a solar array can look like."
Mayor Villaraigosa at the Occidental Solar Array December 12, 2012
Koning Eizenberg Architect designed, Martifer Solar installed. 40kW building integrated facade was installed in Los Angeles on a prominent residential apartment building. The system used high efficiency SunPower modules, SMA inverters and a custom rack.
Photo Source: http://danielrdus.com/57214/974274/commercial/28th-street-apartments-bipv-facade
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130422-910938.html