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Ongreening Newsletter #01

New year, new look.

Dear friend,

With an unexpected and challenging year 2020 now behind us, it is now the time for us all to take action in order to tackle climate change and mainstream sustainability across the design and construction industry.

From sustainability-led architecture to best building industry practices we highlight our most popular stories hand-picked from our revamped website.

From Alfonso at Ongreening

GREEN PROJECTS

Image courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects

ZHA’s proposal for an eye-catching headquarters in Shenzhen

Hybrid ventilated double skin, district energy, water recycling and zero-VOCs materials for the Zaha Hadid Architects’s new building at the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base.

Show your expertise by publishing your LEED, BREEAM or WELL rated architecture on Ongreening It is FREE and takes only few minutes of your time!

PRODUCTS & MATERIALS

Our innovative material library, productMAP, gets revamped.

Find healthy and sustainable materials eligible for your LEED, WELL, BREEAM building projects. Faster and easier.

NEWS

Joe Biden to rejoin Paris Climate Agreement

On his first day as US president, he immediately re-joins the Paris Climate Agreement while revoking the permit to the Keystone XL pipeline.

New leadership for the Italian Green Building Council

Conversations with the newly elected president Marco Mari and his plan to drive innovation and regenerate the building sector.

Green finance and Green Building

Great opportunities will arise as The Renovation Wave drives more than 35 million building refurbishments by 2030.

EDUCATIONAL

Green Building Rating Systems overview

A brief intro of the most widely used green building rating system around the world, such as LEED, BREEAM and WELL.

E-learning post-graduate MSc program

It is about to start in Florence, Italy, offering the chance to gain an invaluable range of advanced skills and knowledge across holistic and sustainable architectural design, building physics, computational design, BIM, green rating systems, and much more. The program includes hands-on internships in leading design firms.

Still time to register if you haven’t already.

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