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At the Bright Green Expo I attended in Copenhagen the weekend before last I helped with some videos on sustainable design and urbanisation that are now available on YouTube. You can watch them at the following links:
The Expo was really interesting and it was great to see some of the technologies on offer. You can read more here.
To help raise awareness of the need to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from buildings, particularly the poorly performing existing stock, Autodesk has put together the Retrofits game. You can play it here. How high can you get on the leaderboard?
To help spread the word you can also download some tools such as website banner and game preview here.
I got back from AU on Friday afternoon after attending the final day on Thursday. If you are not already signed up I would recommend you check out Autodesk University Online where the classes will be posted this coming Friday. It provides a wealth of learning resources for events back to AU2006.
I have just finished the first day of Autodesk University here in Las Vegas. It has been action packed with many sessions. Despite the downturn, the halls of the conference centre are still filled with thousands of people here to learn and share product knowledge.
By far the most interesting session of the day for me was by Amory Lovins, Chief Scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute who talked about integrated design, an approach that looks at whole systems rather than individual components, crucial for optimising designs to gain maximum energy efficiency.
Looking forward to more great sessions tomorrow, and for anyone here in Vegas stop by the AEC Lounge Sustainability Station between 11.30am and 1.30pm on Wednesday and say hello.
