Following the success of last years Sustainability Now events which attracted a combined audience of 3,000 professionals, this virtual event will continue to drive the sustainability agenda with a high quality conference programme and fantastic networking opportunities. The event offers the perfect opportunity for professionals working across architecture, engineering, quantity surveying, project management and construction to discuss and collaborate on cost effective sustainability.
For more information contact:
Martin Hurn
E: martin.hurn@ubm.com
T: +44 (0)20 7560 4072
M: +44 (0)7765 221 607
Registration to attend Sustainability Now is now open
The Girl Geek Dinners were founded on the 16th August 2005 as a result of one girl geek who got annoyed and frustrated about being one of the only females attending technical events. She was tired of being assumed to be marketing, tired of constantly having to prove herself and decided that she just wanted a change and to be treated just the same as any other geek out there, gender and age aside. After all to be geeky is to be intelligent, have passion for a subject and to know that subject in depth. It’s not at all about being better than others, or about gender, race, religion or anything else. Those things just detract from the real fun stuff, the technology, the innovation and the spread of new ideas.
Girl Geek Dinner #4 in Rome this coming Friday (5th March 2010, h 7.00 PM @ Antù, Via Libetta 15/C) will be about sustainability: renewable energy, recycling and reusing.
Speakers for #ggdroma4 are:
More info on GGDRoma.
While the debate on green walls goes on (do they work? Are they just the latest fashion? Are they actually viable? Are they just a pain in the side [of the building]?), green roofs are alive and well: here’s a wonderful one in Mill Valley, California, designed by McGlashan Architecture, masterfully helping the house blending and integrating with the surrounding landscape.
Living roofs shelter three levels of living space while preserving a thriving habitat. Skylights brighten and ventilate rooms below.
[via G Living]
Please don’t call it “menswear”, as I’m not a man still the minute I saw this messenger bag I knew I wanted one (read: I want one of those!). After all, it just takes a few flower patches or something to make it girly enough…
Killspencer was founded by Spencer Nikosey upon graduating from L.A.’s Art Center College of Design. Throughout his current collection, Nikosey gets down to brass tacks with two eco tacts: the use of recycled materials and the creation of durable heirloom goods that are sure to withstand the test of time.
[via Inhabitat]
WATER BUILDING RESORT, is a sustainable building of postmodern generation (HITECH), it was designed architecturally and inspired by the form of a DROP OF WATER when falling from the heights. It is a sustainable building, projected and thought to create conscience of the water.
WATER BUILDING RESORT not contributed alone the knowledge and culture to the coming generations, if not also financial profitability for their promoters and investors.
Designed by Orlando de Urrutia in the shape of a giant water drop, Water Building Resort is a hotel, a spa, a conference centre, an underwater aquarium — but, above all, will be the first building to convert air into water: in fact its south photovoltaic façade will power an equipment on the north façade which will convert condensation and humid air into potable water. This will be possible thanks to a brand new Teex Micron technology.
The bottom floor will house a sea and rain water treatment plant and a Cidemco centre for the technological investigation on water quality.
[via Orlando de Urrutia]
The World Games Stadium, designed by japanese architect Toyo Ito, can welcome 55,000 spectators, and it’s finally ready for the World Games which will be held in Taiwan in July.
Apart from its brilliant overall design, resembling a snake, this stadium is amazing because it’s the largest solar-powered stadium ever built. In fact, its 14,155 squre metres roof is covered by 8844 solar panels which will supply 1.14 GWh green power per annum.
[via Deputy Dog and SkyscraperPage Forum]
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