Zerofootprint Building Re-Skinning Competition
Event Details
Time: September 1, 2009 from 6pm to 7pm
Location: International
Website or Map: http://communities.zerofoot...
Event Type: largest, prize, in, architecture
Organized By: Zerofootprint
Latest Activity: May 24
Event Description
Addressing an Urgent Global Need
We know how to build new buildings with a low carbon footprint, but little attention has been paid to the thousands of existing structures worldwide that are extremely inefficient and have a massive carbon impact. In North America alone they account for 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
The goal of the Zerofootprint Building Re-Skinning Competition is to advance the state-of-the-art in retrofitting such built spaces through better design and improved materials and technology, thus creating retrofitting systems that can be scaled to a large number of buildings and deployed globally.
(Submissions due by 1 Sept 2009. Rather difficult entry requirements, but worth following the competition for the enviro-tech information)
http://communities.zerofootprint.net/building-re-skinning-competition
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