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Green Buildings
Green buildings provide many cost-effective and beneficial advantages to both the environment and their occupants, including energy cost savings and improved building performance. With pandemic attention on building efficiency…
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Mixed-Use Development – Diversify Your CRE Portfolio
Mix-use development projects offer residential redevelopers a diversified revenue stream while mitigating investment risk. Furthermore, mix-use developments promote sustainable lifestyles while decreasing traffic congestion making them desirable among homebuyers….
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Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
An effective TOD design increases sustainable transit ridership, revitalizes neighborhoods, enhances regional competitiveness and enhances quality of life; all while mitigating economic, social and environmental costs associated with sprawl….
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Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
Sustainable urban infrastructure refers to all of the engineered facilities, utilities and systems necessary for daily life in cities. Research in this field centers around quality growth while simultaneously…
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Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Transportation and Equipment
Energy efficiency is an accessible, low-impact way to mitigate climate pollution and meet our energy goals. Furthermore, it improves economics of clean energy transitions while making utilities more resilient…
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The Concept of Sustainable Development
Sustainable development seeks to balance economic growth, social well-being and environmental protection. This requires taking great care in managing Earth’s limited natural resources for future generations’ needs. Equality means…
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Top 5 Smart Cities in the World
Smart cities take an integrated approach to city logistics by collecting valuable data such as weather and traffic to optimize energy use, utilities usage, safety standards, transportation arrangements and…
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Smart Grids
Smart grid technology will strengthen our electric power system’s resilience to storms, natural disasters and terrorist attacks by quickly detecting small imbalances before they spiral out of control and…
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What Is Urban Mobility?
Urban mobility encompasses the movement of both people and goods within cities. This encompasses personal movements related to work, shopping and leisure activities as well as touristic or distributional…
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Energy Storage for Smart Grids and Microgrids
Energy storage enables a smarter, more flexible electricity grid that can deliver renewable energy directly to customers. Energy storage “firms up” renewable resources while simultaneously lowering electricity costs by…