What Do They Know (about Sustainable Design) That We Don’t (and Should)?
U.S. and Canadian Building Teams that fail to use green technologies and innovative design approaches already common in western Europe are going to fall behind competitors who adopt them.
Check out my latest article on this subject in the March issue of Building Design and Construction magazine. Although North American green building practices and technology have come a long way in the past 15 years, it’s my opinion, based on my research in Western Europe and the United Kingdom for my forthcoming book, Green Building Trends: Europe, that Western European architects, engineers, and builders are ahead of us in the widespread use of passive design techniques, integrating solar power into building design, and producing low-energy buildings.
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