Items Tagged with '2030 challenge'

Energy efficiency benchmarking alone is no longer sufficient and we recommend evolving the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) primary climate action program to track total carbon intensity by incorporating fuel source reporting, electrification metrics, expanded embodied carbon tracking, and updated baselines.

USGBC California (USGBC-CA) is hosting its 25th annual California Green Building Conference for a second year in the Bay Area, this time in the East Bay on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

Baselines and benchmarks are both valuable. A project's performance narrative should use both deliberately. The baseline grounds the conversation in the specifics of the project. The benchmark situates the project in the larger context.

Vectorworks, Inc., reveals its 2026 industry trend insights, outlining the key forces set to define the architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture and design, and live events industries.

Representatives from across the industry gathered regularly starting in March 2023 to form a strategic partnership to pursue greater alignment regarding the collection and reporting of embodied carbon data by certification programs and initiatives across the industry. The result: ECHO.

AIA advances climate action during globally recognized Climate Week NYC event as well as the publishing of the annual 2030 Commitment By the Numbers report.

Building Enclosure announces our 2025 Leadership Award winner. In an era where climate change, energy efficiency, and resiliency dominate the built environment conversation, few professionals embody the intersection of technical expertise, sustainability, and leadership like Stevan Vinci.

A brief chronicle of the efforts underway by leading building design professionals to support and galvanize action toward decarbonizing the built environment.

Scheduled for 2026 completion, the 26,800 sf project will include team-based learning classrooms, seminar rooms, collaboration spaces, advising offices and at its center, a school-wide Commons space that overlooks and engages with an exterior entry plaza.