Tag / Green Design
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What is YOUR take on green design?
The last couple of posts touched on sustainable design strategies that could be used for new buildings or existing buildings; for this one I want to respond to the question of why “green” design is important? Attending an architecture program at a university that focuses on sustainability and northern architecture, I have learned just how…
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Goodbye Grey Buildings and say hello to Wooden ones
The realization of climate change comes with a new era of building norms. The introduction of timber materials over the concrete and steel has begun. Commonly used in timber projects are cross-laminated timber commonly referred to CLT. What is Cross Laminated Timber (CLT)? Cross-laminated timber is a type of prefabricated wood panels that come in…
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Green and Grey
Green and grey are the two colours that immediately come to our minds when we visualise green space in a city, and we call this image a ‘sustainable design’.