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Viewpoints & Interviews

Short essays, opinion, and occasional interviews
on subjects related to sustainable design and building

Submit your Viewpoint to editor Jim Taggart, architext@telus.net

Viewpoints

Viewpoint: An LCA Pioneer

An LCA Pioneer: The whole story A pioneer in bringing life cycle assessment [LCA] to the North American construction sector, the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute

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Viewpoint: Embedding Value

Embed the value of housing affordability in sustainability A lone voice from Vancouver issued a challenge at the Greenbuild #2 conference in Pittsburgh in 2003:

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Interviews

Interview with: Ron Schwenger

Principal of Architek [www.architek.com ] in Vancouver, Ron Schwenger has a living architecture technologies company, and sage advice on vegetated roofs, living walls, living facades,

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Interview with Jack Laken

President of Termobuild Canada [www.termobuild.com ,] in Toronto, engineer Jack Laken [jlaken@termobuild.com ] has long been a missionary of passive heating and cooling of buildings.

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