Sustainable Building
The Role of Buildings in a Smart City’s Circular Economy
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September 28th, 2021
Energy Management is Still the Foundation of Smart Buildings
Once upon a time, smart buildings were all about energy management. Continuing pressure to cut costs and growing pressure to tackle climate change had converged to drive an energy efficiency revolution in buildings. At the heart of that revolution was smart technology, where sensor networks and big data software processed masses of information about the […]
Continually Demolishing & Rebuilding Our Buildings Is Not Smart or Sustainable
The pyramids of Giza have been standing intact for over 4000-years and are not even the oldest pyramids in Egypt.The Pantheon in Rome has been in continuous use for over 2000-years, Istanbul’s intricate Santa Sophia appears pristine despite is 1483-year age, while the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestine, has housed worshipers for the […]
Towards Net-Zero Buildings – Legislation for a Sustainable Energy Future
“The window for tackling the climate crisis is closing quickly, meaning incremental measures are no longer enough. We must go beyond decarbonizing power generation and concentrate our efforts on electrifying heat and transport, as well as improving energy efficiency. It is absolutely critical that, in addition to better sourcing of energy, we focus efforts on […]
Audio: Enhanced Health, Wellbeing & Productivity in Commercial Real Estate
Here are the Audio Stream & Slides from our 9th Free Webinar in the 2018 Smart Buildings Series. Enhanced Health, Wellbeing & Productivity in Commercial Real Estate. Memoori Talked to Owen Zachariasse, Innovation & Sustainability Advisor for Delta Development Group; discussing his work on the European headquarters of Plantronics, which was completed in 2016 earning […]
The Triple Bottom Line Of Sustainable Building
“Although they are not taking it for granted, forward-thinking developers, owners, and tenants have started treating sustainability as a given — they simply assume that maximizing sustainability is part of their brief,” states a new report from Philips on “living” smart buildings. The report considers the development of attitudes towards sustainable building. Namely how the […]