Woods Bagot has announced Julieta Loya will join the practice as its new Regional Sustainability Consultant, which it hopes will boost its sustainability credentials and Global Impact strategy.
Woods Bagot has announced it will now utilise climate change modelling tool WeatherShift by Arup, which factors in custom weather data that accounts for rising temperatures in the locations of new projects.
Woods Bagot’s Global Sustainability Leader Russell Fortmeyer has made his way to Australia in recent weeks to work with the practice’s architects housed within their Australian studios.
Designed by KieranTimberlake for The University of California, Santa Barbara, the laboratory building achieved LEED Platinum in part through natural ventilation.
Venture capital firms this year have begun raising hundreds of millions of dollars that they plan to deploy into proptech startups aimed at taking on climate change by making buildings more sustainable.
The surge of investment, taking place across the U.S., Canada and Europe, comes as experts see multiple coinciding forces that will push developers and landlords to adopt green building technologies in the coming years.
Government action, from local building regulations to President Joe Biden s push to spend hundreds of billions on sustainable buildings, is expected to force rapid adoption of climate proptech solutions. But the movement isn t just coming from the government shareholders, lenders and tenants have been escalating pressure on landlords to make their buildings become more climate-friendly.