Architects, landscape architects and urban planners are influential brokers to facilitate change in the built environment, yet we rely upon experts and researchers who make it their business to provide convincing background data and policy alternatives for legislators. When the agenda is targeting net-zero strategies, positive change happens when cities can push the climate agenda […]
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Architects and planners must decarbonize the construction industry, and we have less than ten years to make real progress to stay within 1.5 degrees of global warming. Buildings are responsible for almost 40% of global annual carbon dioxide emissions, so how can we establish goals to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to reach net-zero levels […]
Greta Thunberg, often talks about how “our house is on fire” when referencing the global climate crisis and the precariousness of our planet. Taking inspiration from Thunberg, our firm released a report in early 2022 entitled “The House is on Fire!” with the intent of bringing attention to the disconnect between the process of revising […]
SvN Architects + Planners (SvN) is launching a LinkedIn Live Series dubbed SvN Speaks on June 1, 2022. Hosted by various practice leaders at the firm, each episode will feature conversations with expert urbanists and industry professionals themed around the urgent need for cities to take bolder action to fight climate change and meet net-zero deadlines. Solution-oriented […]