Atul has shared his extensive expertise in Virtual Building with different organizations over the past two years, including Lean Construction Design Forum, Design-Build Institute of America, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, AIA California, Stanford University and San Jose State University Professional Development program. Kimon is recognized as a leader in building industry technologies and has a unique perspective that spans architecture, planning, programming and software development. CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY REVOLUTION NATIONAL TELECONFERENCE SERIES ! The U.S. Finith E. MORE >>

Monopoly is not a good thing it stifles growth and more importantly creativity. __ The Bad News About Green Architecture Sustainable buildings are virtuous, but they can be ugly. By Cathleen McGuigan | NEWSWEEK Published Sep 6, 2008 I hate green architecture. What bugs me most about the fad for green architecture is the notion that virtue makes for better design. The California Academy of Sciences, opening later this month in San Francisco, is a perfect example. But architecture is about desire; it's about dreams." Only a few designs are truly great. MORE >>

This is Seattle, not Manhattan or even San Francisco where people go to extreme methods to find parking near their homes. This local company has overbuilt in all the urban areas with their ubiquitous rectangle loft homes that are better suited again to Manhattan or San Francisco where land is at a premium and people don't mind paying millions of dollars to live in "urban" areas where one's neighbors may or may not have a crack/meth and or homeless problem. The house also employs a "breeze chimney," an ancient architectural tool, as a kind of air conditioning. MORE >>

And yes even a critic of some of the excesses and silliness found in green architecture so it goes to show that you can love and embrace qualities of things but still see the real problems with it. San Jose, Calif., Three major California cities — Los Angeles (140,000 streetlights), San Jose (62,000) and San Francisco (30,000) — have embarked on some LED conversions. Front page this a.m. NY Times. Queen goes Green. Prince Charles could be called a "green" monarch as he has been a great supporter of organic farming and green building for many years. MORE >>

No, Seattle always was an expensive city with small neighborhoods that well weren't exactly on comparison to those of San Francisco and Manhattan, despite whatever a Seattleite will tell you. Even San Francisco established a higher minimum wage and mandatory health care, so progressive Seattle maybe not so much. This year, singular bright ideas have earned 12 other cities -- Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Malmö, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Taipei, Tucson, and Vancouver -- places on our honor roll. have to agree. an hour. MORE >>