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BLDG 2.0 selected for inagural issue of [bracket]

Submitted by Steve on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 20:54
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BLDG 2.0 was selected to be published in the inagural issue of the new journal [bracket], released this winter. We're psyched to have been chosen.

BLDG 2.0 is one of ten technologies selected to premier at Green:Net 09!

Submitted by Steve on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 19:31
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We thought we had a good idea, but we we're completely blown away when we we're notified today that BLDG 2.0 was selected as one of ten startups that will premier at the Green:Net 09 Conference in San Francisco.

Google Project 10^100 announcement pushed back

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 12:13
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Google's Project 10^100 team announced today that they were unable to complete the internally vetted list of 100 finalists for public voting, because they were overwhelmed by the number of ideas (over 150,000). They have pushed back the announcement date to March 17 (St. Patrick's Day).

AU Design Computation Update

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 11:49
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Since it looks like Robert isn't planning to add information online about the AU Design Computation Symposium that I mentioned earlier, I've decided to make my lecture available here.

CASE presents at Design Computation Symposium at AU

Submitted by Steve on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 13:27
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I was invited to present during the inaugural Design Computation Symposium at Autodesk University 2008. The event, organized by by Robert Aish, Director of Software Development at Autodesk, brought together some of the leading practitioners of computational design from across the AEC industry.

BLDG 2.0 | Crowd-Sourcing Building Energy Performance

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 00:32
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Related Software: 
Drupal

BLDG 2.0 is a research project initiated by CASE, in partnership with New Buildings Institute, Arup Sustainability, SHoP Architects, Columbia University and IDEO. BLDG 2.0 will address two, somewhat paradoxical, barriers to informed sustainable design: the lack of publicly accessible performance data and the difficulty of extracting meaningful, consistent information from the raw, unstandardized data when it is available. BLDG 2.0 will move beyond this to create a real knowledge resource for building performance.

BLDG 2.0 gets denied by Latrobe jury

Submitted by Steve on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 07:01
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Unsurprisingly, BLDG 2.0 didn't make it into the second stage of the AIA's Latrobe Prize competition. :-( Unfortunately, we need a few more grey hairs and martinis with the jurors before we're accepted as members of the club. Nothing like paying your dues.

Grimshaw Architects | Miami Museum of Science Environmental Modeling

Submitted by Federico on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 22:57
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IES
Revit
Rhino
SketchUp

CASE was hired by Grimshaw Architects as part of a US Department of Energy Renewable Energy Project Grant to assist in the research, design and planning necessary for a full integration of the renewable energy resources and optimal energy efficiency in the new Miami Museum of Science.

BLDG 2.0 submitted for 2009 Latrobe Prize

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 22:10
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Keeping the momentum going, Nash, Josh and I decided to further refine our BLDG 2.0 concept and submit it for consideration for the 2009 Latrobe Prize. The Latrobe Prize is a biennial competitive grant, awarded by the AIA's College of Fellows to advance professional knowledge in architecture.

BLDG 2.0 Entered in Google's Project 10^100 Ideas Competition

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 22:07
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Josh Emig, Nash Hurley and myself decided to use Google's Project 10^100 ideas competition to give shape to an idea that we had been kicking around for some time. Project 10^100 was launched to celebrate Google's 10th birthday (crazy, right?), with the company committing $10 million (even crazier) to fund up to five ideas to "change the world, in the hope of helping as many people as possible."