- Design+Work
“Design + Work,” a new knowledge series premiered at NeoCon 2011.
Herman Miller and International Interior Design Association (IIDA) presents this on-going series to explore emerging trends in the workplace and highlight a range of design topics that enhance and affect our daily lives. We’re proud to share with you highlights of the first program featuring John Snavely, Microsoft futurist and designer, and his vision on technology and the new ways it is shaping how and where we work. Click here to view
Abdon M. Pallasch, The Chicago Sun-Times
Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday exhorted university officials from around the country to do a better job leading the way on making their campus buildings greener.
“For all the good we’re doing, we’re just piddling compared to what we ought to be doing and compared to what we could be doing,” Clinton told 250 college administrators meeting at the Palmer House Hilton.
“Think about it: 6.7 million jobs lost. And all this work out there is laying on the ground, begging to be done with an absolute certain high return. I am anxious to speed this up. For all the good you’re doing, we should be doing three, four, five, 10 times what we’re doing as a country.”
Clinton has become a crusader for environmental renovation as a catalyst for energy conservation and putting people back to work.
If solar panels or green roofs could be seen going up on campus roofs around the country, other builders would follow suit and put people back to work, helping fight unemployment as well as saving energy, Clinton told the receptive audience.
“Every time somebody sees a project on one of your campuses, fixing a building, you are having an impact, even beyond the fight to produce climate change and lower your utility bills,” Clinton said.
Margaret Jackson The Denver Post
YMCA of the Rockies is seeking Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification for the three new lodges it’s building as part of a $40 million expansion.
The organization hired Neenan Archistruction to design and build the lodges at the YMCA campus outside Estes Park.
Using what’s known as “panelized” construction, the company had the walls manufactured in a Severance factory and assembled on site, eliminating 80 percent of the waste typically generated during a project’s framing, said Mark Holdt, vice president for planning and project development at the YMCA. (more…)
