by yakhour5 | Dec 1, 2024 | News
Rethinking housing from the ground up The TallWood Design Institute’s latest prototype is a game-changer: a 760-sq.-ft., two-story home crafted from precision-engineered mass plywood panels (MPP). Built with small-diameter logs, this innovative design not only...
by Mark Fretz | Sep 26, 2024 | News
A newly published article by Professor Andy Tay in the journal Nature highlights the challenges and ways in which universities worldwide, including the Biology and the Built Environment Center, have been battling the single-use plastic waste stream associated with...
by Mark Fretz | Sep 26, 2024 | News
Around 70 enthusiastic design professionals, urban farmers, entrepreneurs, housing developers, government professionals, urban planners, place-makers, and researchers traveled from the UK, Canada and 11 U.S. states last week to attend the first ever Grow (IN)’...
by Gwynne Mhuireach | Jun 21, 2024 | Events, News
The goal of this Visioning Summit is to identify critical challenges, barriers, benefits, and opportunities as we create a network of professionals to further develop building-integrated agriculture. We will work together to: identify key challenges of...
by srockcas | Dec 11, 2023 | News
An article co-authored by Siobhan Rockcastle, Galen Sollom-Brotherton Whalen, Aaron Milgrim, and Robert Davis titled, “The Use of Virtual Screens in Perceptual Studies on Electric Light: A Comparison Between 2D, Panoramic, Cardboard, and Head-Mounted Displays” has...
by srockcas | Nov 30, 2023 | News
A new journal article by Siobhan Rockcastle and Alen Mahic was just published in Energy and Buildings. This paper introduces a digital simulation workflow that calculates annual eye-level illuminance and energy demand from daylight and electric lighting sources and...
