All (247) Alumni & Partners (34)Architecture (77)Climate (32)Construction Management (30)Dean (18)Faculty (69)Honors & Awards (33)In the Media (81)Landscape Architecture (43)News (57)Real Estate (36)Research (50)Students (50)Urban Design & Planning (46) Climate (32) UW receives $1.2M climate change research grant from EPA Catherine De Almeida, assistant professor of landscape architecture, is part of the interdisciplinary UW team working on a community-based project researching ways to preserve water, soil and sediment along the Duwamish River, famously polluted by decades of industrial contamination. | Fox 13 News Read More UW’s Green Futures Lab: Building wetlands to sustain salmon The Green Futures Lab strives to create habitat and cleaner waterways through the use of floating wetlands. Check out this great video from King County summarizing our Duwamish floating wetland project. | King County TV Read More ‘Something has to change:’ These architecture students are challenging Seattle’s housing norms Architecture 508 Graduate Research Studio students talked about their ideas and solutions to add more housing in Seattle -- a well-timed discussion as Seattle is updating its comprehensive plan. | KUOW Read More HHF x #CBEchronicles Future Visions Lecture Series This year's lectures discussed the ways in which the environmental challenges attributed to the Anthropocene (climate change, pandemics, resource inequality, etc) change our perspectives on temporality and, particularly in the realm of design thinking, ‘futurity’. Watch the recordings. Read More Biochar: Coral Reef of the Soil Justin Roberts, MLA '22, describes his journey abroad exploring the powerful potential of using biochar in landscape design. Read More Plant-based data centers Concrete creates huge carbon emissions. Why can’t data center builders turn that around, and use biological material that stores carbon instead? The Carbon Leadership Forum at the College of Built Environments research is quoted. | Data Center Dynamics Read More An online world that doesn’t destroy the real one Three groups of student designers led by UW CBE faculty Drs. Julie Kriegh, Chris Lee and Jan Whittington took on a near-impossible challenge: low-carbon server farms. Read More ZGF Architects Builds a Transparent and Inclusive Timber Assessment Tool Upstream, a winner of Metropolis’ inaugural Responsible Disruptors competition, is an open-source calculator that designers with a comprehensive view of the carbon impacts of their wood-based materials choices. Upstream was created in partnership with the College of Built Environments Applied Research Consortium and led by CBE student, Chuou Zhang. | Metropolis Read More Entombed in the Landscape: Waste with Assistant Professor Catherine De Almeida Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Catherine De Almeida remembers picking up trash on the playground, seeing people throw trash out their car window, and noticing trash flying around while she played outside as a child. The presence of litter in landscapes upset her so much that she would spend her elementary school recesses picking up trash. Read More Search Results Navigation Page 01 02 03 04
