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The Wait was Worth It

After two long years apart, the Built Environment Plus community was able to reunite for the 2021 Green Building Showcase. This community works so hard to advance sustainable and regenerative design, construction, and operation of the built environment throughout the year, and we are so grateful to have been able to celebrate industry success and innovation.

At GBS 2021, community members celebrated the best efforts, designs, and products in the Commonwealth. 100+ people celebrated 50+ projects that all embraced the spirit of sustainable design.

Attendees included architects, engineers, contractors, developers, owners, facility managers, building users, lenders, suppliers – everyone who plays a role in designing, operating, and constructing the built environment. We here at Built Environment Plus are so appreciative to the green building community for coming out and celebrating with us.

This year brought in a new leadership award to recognize someone who has made a significant positive impact on the environment, social equity, and economy. Congratulations to our first Change Agent of the Year, Jacob Knowles of BR+A, and in addition as awarded by the judges, our first Emerging Change Agent of the Year, Kiersten Washle of CMTA! Jacob is an active member of the BE+ community and a key part of our roundtables, and Kiersten is the leader of our Emerging Professionals group.

Innovation in Green Architecture

I belong to the last century, but as an architect I have to stay ahead of time, so here I am talking about innovations in green architecture. As an old timer, we were always doing green architecture. As per planning norms ground coverage was 25%, FSI was 1.00, with limited requirements of car parking, there was plenty of open and green area almost 40–50%. Houses and apartments were designed with courtyards, deep verandahs and balconies, cross ventilation with high roof and ventilators, only fans and no air-conditioning, except air-coolers sometimes.

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