LAWSUIT PUTS GREEN BUILDING CODE ON HOLD.(Local News): An article from: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Spurred by the havoc wreaked by tropical storm Ondoy in the country last year, DatE advocates zero-climate casualty in developing countries through climate-resilient urban designs. It is led by the National Commission on Climate Change, the United Architects of the Philippines, and the City of Taguig. It has brought together foreign embassies, international organizations, and key city officials on the issue of climate change adaptation.
The country's experience with Ondoy showed that it takes only a few hours to destroy what took decades to build. Organizers and promoters of DatE assert that the Philippines, through this competition, will be a testing ground on the use of innovative design technologies and housing and building materials.
Lawyers help builders decipher new green building codes: additional support also available with growing water supply issues.(CONSTRUCTION): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
This will provide the country with the opportunity to translate low-carbon and low-cost housing plans into the first ''Green Building Codes'' of the country. The winning design will be constructed on a three-hectare plot in Taguig City, Metro Manila, to house about 600 families currently living in environmental danger zones.
The competition is expected to pave the way for our aspiring architects and urban planners to think out of the box and be creative in coming up with climate resilient designs suitable to our geographic characteristics as well as affordable for the majority of Filipino families.
By drawing together the brightest and most innovative minds in the fields of design and urban planning to develop and integrated, environmentally sound, and disaster-resistant housing, Design against the Elements Global Challenge is expected address the goal of zero-climate casualty, a shared vision of all citizens and countries of the world.
