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Event description A provocative nationwide roundtable discussing the role of landscape architectural education in shaping future practices and the discipline. About this Event The discipline of landscape architecture often aims (and claims) to address the coalescing and intensifying conditions faced by global communities and ecosystems. As we advance into a future of radically accelerated change, we ask leading voices in landscape architectural education: what is landscape architectur...

25 February 2021 ‘ with the heavens that cover them.’ Federico Garcia Lorca With better times on the horizon, Shangri-La Hotel, At The Shard, London, is offering the opportunity for ‘Time to Reflect’ to escape from the daily home/office or work structures that might confine you and to experience life from a new, different and liberating perspective. Six RIBA-registered members will get the chance to spend a week in one of the hotel’s 202 rooms, located from level 34-52 at Pritzker-Pri...

Share Many Australian school kids could be learning in classrooms with poor indoor air quality that exceeds safety guidelines.     A team from the UNSW Sydney’s School of Built Environment found concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in classrooms peaked significantly higher than the 850-ppm threshold prescribed by the National Construction Code due to a lack of proper ventilation.     The study also showed that low ventilation rates raise the concentration of other contaminants in a...

Australian schools need better ventilation to improve student health and productivity, says new UNSW research. Many Australian school kids could be learning in classrooms with poor indoor air quality that exceeds safety guidelines. A team from the UNSW Sydney’s School of Built Environment found concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in classrooms peaked significantly higher than the 850-ppm threshold prescribed by the National Construction Code due to a lack of proper ventilation. The study...

Apr 14, 2021 Dr. Bajaj, an alumnus of MIT, Mangalore University, holds a Ph.D from University of Technology Sydney, Australia and was himself an outstanding student. He is passionate about knowledge sharing and has been associated with higher education in Built Environment sector since past 30 years. He is an adjunct professor at SKEMA Business School, France, and Chongqing Jianzhu College, Chongqing, China. He is also adjunct professor at RICS SBE since 2016 and regularly mentors and supervise...

Earth Day = Health Day 8:00 p.m. Climate Change, Health, and the Built Environment in Alexandria A stable climate is fundamental to human health.  Climate change resulting from our continued emissions of greenhouse gases is placing substantial health risks and economic costs onto future generations. Reducing these impacts requires cutting our greenhouse gas emissions 7-8% every year, in order to cut emissions roughly in half by 2030.  In Alexandria, over half of our greenhouse gas e...

Left-to-right: Huawei EBG president Liao Yong, higher education minister Blade Nzimande; SAPCO president Sanele Mlotshwa and Huawei SA deputy CEO Kian Chen by AKANI CHAUKE JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – HUAWEI has this year allocated R7 million (over US$480 000) in bursaries to a select group of university students, as part of efforts to bolster its support of technology talent in South Africa. The bursaries will benefit 48 students from five universities. The bursary programme is part of Huawei...

Date Time Can what cyclists wear make them look ‘less human’? A Brisbane urban planner who wants to encourage more cycling around the city has launched a survey asking people if they think different types of attire can make cyclists seem “less human”. Dr Mark Limb’s project has been inspired by a 2019 Australian study that found more than half of car drivers think cyclists are not completely human and suggested that this dehumanisation could be one of the triggers of deliberate acts o...

Technology Innovations Manager R+D for the Built Environment (@XL Construction), Full-time Mountain View, CA Who We are/ What We do:R+D for the Built Environment (@XL Construction) is the ideas workshop for a large tech company in Mountain View. We are architects, engineers, researchers...

To lead the overall co-ordination of the project. To take overall accountability and responsibility for the implementation of the project. To provide strategic interface with high level stakeholders. To participate in the strategic management of the organisation. AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THIS ROLE IN FOCUS, ARE: Management of the overall risk relating to the implementation of the project Implement appropriate agreements to implement the project Manage the co-ordination and integration of...