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Eight outstanding green-building professionals are under consideration for the 2013 award, which includes a $50,000 prize, from The Hanley Foundation, ECOHOME, and BUILDER.
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A range of project types, with a majority from the West Coast, round out this year’s Top Ten Green Projects from the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment.
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Teak fold-down shower seats are naturally resistant to fungi, mold, and mildew.
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Three recent studies address energy efficiency and home ownership bode well for significant changes to the way buyers finance home purchases.
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The administration postpones its decision on which green-building system to use, and announces it is taking comments for the next 60 days on how the federal government can best use LEED 2009, Green Globes, and the Living Building Challenge.
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A total of 28 projects received 2013 AIA Honor Awards in categories of architecture, interiors, and urban design and regional planning. A few of these also deserve special recognition for showcasing sustainability in design.
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Forty-five college teams receive grants as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity and the Planet student design competition.
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The designer of the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas was once better known for his iconoclasm. No less provocative today, the winner of the 2013 AIA Gold Medal has done some of his best work for the federal government's Design Excellence Program.
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Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects won the AIA's highest honor for an architecture firm, a prize commending their often spiritual, always textural works, which include the recently relocated Barnes Foundation museum in Philadelphia.
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Three mayors representing the southwest, midwest, and coastal southeast talk about how local government is placed best to create sustainable policy.