AAF Sustainable Cities Design Academy Recap

I was honored to attend the Sustainable Cities Design Academy this past Monday to Wednesday at the American Architecture Foundation. With sponsorship from UTC, the AAF brought 12 sustainability, design and development practitioners from around the country to apply their knowledge to four city scale projects in various stages of development. [...]

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Targeting LEED Platinum with Marin Country Day School

Sherwood, working with our partners EHDD, Stantec and Oliver and Co. (who took the photo to the left), recently installed a 15,000 gallon cistern at Marin Country Day School. This cistern will be collecting around 16,000 square feet of rainwater from the roofs of a new art classroom and Learning Resource Center.
The project is [...]

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Speaking at West Coast Green Oct 1-3

I’m proud to be among this distinguished list of speakers for West Coast Green October 1-3 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Hope to see you there!
Best,
- Bry
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Sherwood Wins Award for Innovation in Green Community Planning!

The San Mateo County Sustainable Green Streets and Parking Lots Design Guidebook, which Sherwood coauthored with Portland’s Nevue-Ngan Associates, has just won the award for Innovation in Green Community Planning by the the California Chapter of the American Planning Association! You can read the full text of the guidebook here, and if you’re going [...]

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Chartwell/AIA Award in Scientific American

The new Scientific American has a story on the AIA Top Ten award which named our Chartwell project “one of the Top 10 Earth- and People-Friendly Buildings.”

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The Obamas Choose Green: Sidwell Friends

Sidwell Friends School. Image from Natural Systems International.
A little noted fact about Sidwell Friends, the Obama family’s choice of school for Malia and Sasha: It’s amazingly green! Designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates, this LEED Platinum middle school is part of the Sidwell Friends School campus. Among the school’s many green [...]

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Transforming a City Block – What’s Your Great Idea?

The 6th competition in a series, Re:Vision DALLAS is an opportunity to transform an existing city block in Dallas into a model of cutting-edge sustainable practices.

We invite you to be part of this ground-breaking effort and help lay the foundation for sustainable urban design. Together we can change the future of urban America, one [...]

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Green Jobs and Green Buildings

Urban Planners on List of Top 10 “Best Green Jobs”
Fast Company just released its list of “10 Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade.” Along with “Urban Planner” our other favorites include:

Energy Efficiency Builder
Sustainability Systems Developer
Farmer
Forester

Good Jobs Green Jobs
The Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference happened this week in Washington DC, with the promise [...]

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The Weekly Heads Up

New Yorkers, be sure not to miss this holiday event!
Obama Pledges Massive Public Works Program
“President-elect Barack Obama promised Saturday to create the largest public works construction program since the inception of the interstate highway system a half century ago as he seeks to put together a plan to resuscitate the reeling economy,” says the New [...]

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The Weekly Heads Up

Image of Chartwell School courtesy of Michael David Rose Photography.
Douglas Atkins, Executive Director of Chartwell School is winning a Green Building Super Hero award this week! Come to the party this Thursday.
Sherwood provided engineering and design services for this LEED Platinum project, including an educational interpretive stormwater feature that links the rainwater [...]

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