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Thinking Through LCAs

Decarbonization consultant William Beer shares his thoughts about efforts to reduce emissions from the manufacture of building materials

Man wearing a blue shirt looks above to the camera while standing on an installation of bedrock samples.
Sea Change

Carlos Irijalba uses recycled materials from climate resiliency projects for an installation along the East River

Ultraviole(n)t Exposure

Unpacking what it means to design safe shade

Looking Back to Move Forward

Each chapter of Material Health: Design Frontiers interrogates a material of everyday production

September 2023: Sustainability Focus Section

Mass Timber: It’s What’s for Dinner

The potentials and provocations of architecture’s favorite eco-material

Fighting Fire with Fire

Playbook for the Pyrocene is an open-access guide to preparing for wildfires by SWA’s XL Lab

Eco-Archi-Histories

Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism retrieves an inspiring, bygone era of the American architectural imagination

Leading By Example

Governor Hochul’s Buy Clean Concrete program seeks to reduce embodied carbon in New York state building projects

Outgrowing Portland

Cement production has an emissions problem. Here’s how companies are addressing it.

B Corps

More and more architecture firms are becoming certified B Corps: What are they, and what do they mean for architecture?

September 2023

rendering of factory building
Ceramics Class

Duravit AG has plans to design the “world’s first climate-neutral” ceramic production facility in Québec

Giving Back

Noguchi Museum and Pratt Institute among 48 recipients of a $2.7 million grant from the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative

Thought Leaders

California becomes the first state in the U.S. to tackle embodied carbon in its building codes

New seating at Boston City Hall
Learning from the Commonwealth

Fossil fuel bans, a green bank, and energy codes prohibiting all-glass buildings are coming to Massachusetts

An incandescent lightbulb.
Light Switch

Biden administration and EU Commission ban incandescent bulbs to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions

Sweat Inducing

Heat Wave digest: An awful week of weather, incentivizing retrofits, painting roadways, and more

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