Designing Sustainable Buildings for Arctic Communities ...

Arctic communities are experiencing dire impacts to infrastructure due to extreme environments, remote locations, and climate change. How should we best design, build, and monitor buildings so that they are durable, affordable, healthy, and sustainable for Northern communities? Aaron Cooke is a lice...

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Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Online Ethics Center 2022
Subjects:
Engineering
Environmental Engineering
FOS Environmental engineering
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Ethics and Society
Public Well-being
Social Responsibility
Sustainability
Arctic
Fairbanks
Climate change
Subarctic
Alaska
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.18130/1tgr-fx32
https://libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/02870w034
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Summary:Arctic communities are experiencing dire impacts to infrastructure due to extreme environments, remote locations, and climate change. How should we best design, build, and monitor buildings so that they are durable, affordable, healthy, and sustainable for Northern communities? Aaron Cooke is a licensed architect and project manager at NREL's Cold Climate Housing Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. He manages the Sustainable Northern Communities Program, which designs and deploys emerging building technologies and approaches in the Arctic and Subarctic. ...

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