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News • Innovations • 23 Aug 2024
GROUP A presents design concept for 'Paris Proof Block'
Rotterdam-based architecture office GROUP A first launched its internal think tank, CARBONLAB, in 2022, to investigate how it might reduce the carbon footprint of design and construction projects.
CARBONLAB recently conducted useful and enlightening research into how the Dutch Green Building Council's commitment to meeting the Paris Proof building carbon budgets set for 2030 can already be achieved, using materials and construction tools available today. 'Paris Proof Block' is an investigation into the technical and architectural potential to realize a complex, high-rise multifunctional building.
Two concepts were designed to prove that large-scale developments can already be realized today according to the stringent Paris Proof sta... More
News • News • 24 Aug 2023
New Helsinki Heat Pump Building integrates seamlessly with the industrial landscape
The Vuosaari Heat Pump Building in Helsinki, Finland, was completed by Finnish architectural studio Virkkunen & Co Architects. The building is a key part of Finnish energy company Helen Ltd’s drive towards carbon-neutral energy production by 2030. Its design enjoys a seamless integration with the surrounding industrial landscape.
Tuomas Kivinen
Tuomas Kivinen
The new heat pump building is located on an existing power plant site in east Helsinki, close to Vuosaari Harbour and the Baltic Sea. It sits adjacent to two dominant Vuosaari power plants, both designed by Virkkunen & Co Architects: power plant A (1987) and power plant B (1998). “The new building is a simple box that fits into the existing... More
Project • By HIP V. HYPE • Apartments
Ferrars & York
Ferrars & York: 22 carbon neutral apartments, 100m from South Melbourne Market.
Enabled by HIP V. HYPE, designed in collaboration with Six Degrees Architects and built by IRONSIDE, Ferrars & York comprises 22 carbon neutral apartments in South Melbourne with an average energy rating of 8.6-stars and the highest performing apartment achieving 9.3-stars (out of 10).
Ferrars & York, enabled by HIP V. HYPE, designed in collaboration with Six Degrees Architects and built by IRONSIDE. Photography by Tess Kelly.
Carbon neutral in both construction and operation, and powered by 100% GreenPower renewable energy, Ferrars & York pres... More
Product • By Autex Acoustics • Carbon neutral acoustics
Carbon neutral acoustics
Autex Acoustics are carbon neutral in everything they do. They have reduced and balanced all carbon emissions from business operations and products to zero. They have mitigated their carbon impact by offsetting the equivalent emissions using certified carbon credits, making their products entirely carbon neutral. These carbon credits are generated from projects focused on renewable energy, fuel switching, and reforestation around the world. More
News • Sponsored Articles • 17 Jan 2022
JLG designs highly sustainable buildings using SketchUp and Sefaira
*Explore these topics and more in SketchUp’s webinar series about connected design workflows for architects.
Award-winning architects JLG have leveled up their commitment to Architecture 2030's sustainability challenge by reimagining their workflows around a data-driven, holistic, and firmwide process. Leveraging SketchUp, they perform sophisticated performance analyses and embed sustainability considerations throughout the design process.
Across the globe, fifteen of the twenty largest global architecture and engineering firms have now adopted the 2030 Challenge. The goal is to transform the role of the built environment from being a core contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to being a central solution to the... More