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Ken Goulding's picture

SmartPlan Rainwater Model

By Ken Goulding posted on Tue, 2010-10-05 15:08 , 319 reads, 0 comments

Different landscape choices handle water in different ways. Any landscape will release runoff if enough water falls, however greener landscapes and pervious paving options do a much better job of absorbing and containing water before runoff occurs.

 

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New wind turbine design could provide greater efficiency and much smaller footprint

By Ken Goulding posted on Tue, 2010-01-26 10:42 , 1224 reads, 0 comments
http://cleantechnica.com/2010/01/26/wind-turbines-...

A new wind turbine design out of Wilbraham, MA promises to provide more durability, better efficiency and (importantly for planning purposes) much reduced spacing requirements.

 

Have a look at the video below. In addition to being an impressive piece of engineering, I think the video itself is an excellent example of selling a design concept using 3D computer models.

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Knowledge Cartography

By Stephen Gray posted on Thu, 2009-12-03 23:58 , 319 reads, 0 comments
http://www.knowledgecartography.org/

"The aim of the research is to extend the cartographic metaphor beyond visual analogy, and to expose it as a narrative model and tool to intervene in complex, heterogeneous, dynamic realities, just like those of human geography. The map, in this context, is not only a passive representation of reality but a tool for the production of meaning. The map is thus a communication device: a mature representation artefact, aware of its own language and its own rhetoric, equipped with it its own tools, languages, techniques and supports."

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Sustainability in the marine industry

By V Hagopian posted on Mon, 2009-11-23 15:10 , 244 reads, 0 comments

Sustainable solutions in the Marine Industry.

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Forget Stormwater, It's All About Rainwater!

By Steve Benz posted on Thu, 2009-07-16 15:44 , 503 reads, 0 comments

 Forget Stormwater, It's All About Rainwater!

Low Impact Development- It's not business as usual for stormwater engineersread more

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Steve Benz's picture

Are you REALLY using Geothermal Energy?

By Steve Benz posted on Thu, 2009-07-16 07:47 , 1077 reads, 1 comment

SO you want to include geothermal energy on your building project!

 

I remember when I was a kid watching the nightly news.  Off the coast of Iceland, the Atlantic Continental Rift was tearing the world apart, and hot magma was spewing forth to create the new island of Surtsey.  Night after night on TV we saw nature's fury--incredible sources of energy from within the earth itself--unleashed to demonstrate just how powerful geothermal energy can be.read more


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Energy Benchmarking Projects

By Meredith Elbaum posted on Fri, 2009-06-19 11:03 , 522 reads, 1 comment

As a helpful exercise to get a sense for how we are doing at reducing energy in our building projects, Sasaki created this chart to show the trends in building performance as determined through energy modeling.  The chart shows the types of building projects and their projected energy performance above a "average" building of the same type.  The goals from the 2030 Challenge are shown as a comparison point for how these projects track against those targets.

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