June Happy Hour: Sustainable Design & Architecture
Contemporary architectural design incorporates many new innovations to reduce energy usage and improve overall sustainability of new projects. Next Tuesday Jonathan Smith, Associate Partner at the architecture firm Lake Flato, will recount various sustainable design features, including solar-readiness, that are employed in projects right now like the new Austin Central Library. Jonathan’s projects […]
April Happy Hour: Living Building Challenge
Plan to be inspired by the solar opportunity within the Living Building Challenge™. LBC is the built environment’s most rigorous performance standard. It calls for the creation of building projects at all scales that operate as cleanly, beautifully and efficiently as nature’s architecture. The certification process under the Challenge requires that projects meet a series of ambitious performance requirements […]
Solar Austin Happy Hour: Solar and Green Buildings
The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) is a national organization with the mission “to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life.” The USGBC provides green building educational programs and is the developer of LEED, […]
Solar Austin Happy Hour: Toward a Maximum Potential Energy Future
This month we will feature the work of the oldest 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations in the US that does work in the sustainable architecture landscape architecture and planning arena. Come hear Pliny Fisk III share 4 decades of his experience advancing innovative technologies, projects, and programs as co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems. […]