A Charlottesville-based nonprofit group that pushes for sustainable practices and policies held an award ceremony earlier this month honoring the area’s businesses, organizations and individuals doing that work at the
In 2022, hardly a week passed on Archinect without the hottest construction material of the year making the news: Mass timber was everywhere — in novel conceptual proposals, competition-winning entries, experimental school projects, and, increasingly so, in completed, real-life, and often.
Back in June, we covered news of research set to be undertaken at Penn State on the subject of embodied carbon in cities. The research, one of many stories this year focusing on embodied carbon, signals a growing awareness in academic and professional circles of the need to include whole-life.
Upon demolishing the old silos later this year, Hourigan Development is planning to construct what will be among the tallest residential buildings to be built in the city in recent years.