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Earlier this week Architecture 2030 launched the beta of a powerful new educational tool, the 2030 Palette. The website consists of a library of "swatches" with core sustainable design principles, specific design strategies, and images of examples.
In the world of supercars with 800 horsepower engines, massive spoilers, and flamboyant styling, VW just introduced a new type of supercar: one designed to use less than a liter of diesel to go 100 kilometers. Sure, it won’t go 200 miles per hour, but this new car is one of the most exciting unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show.
Autodesk, Core77 and iFixit challenged students from around the world to design a smart product that can be easily repaired and will stand the test of time. Participants used the “improving product lifetime” resources on the Sustainability Workshop to learn design for repair, upgrade, disassembly, recyclability and durability strategies. See the winners here!
Fluids are all around us. From a simple chair in a room to a sophisticated datacenter hosting cloud computing services, fluids interact with and affect the performance of nearly everything we create, use, and occupy. Len Whitehead, of the Autodesk Simulation Team discusses how to use computation to optimize fluid flow and energy efficiency.
How can a designer’s intention improve the environmental impacts of user behavior and lead to a more sustainable world? The Design With Intent toolkit is a powerful tool for helping to achieve this goal.
It’s easier than ever to make real, physical things from scratch. In this webcast conversation, Autodesk's Jesse Harrington and Dawn Danby talk about ideas as diverse as local manufacturing, sharing networks, and material choices in 3D printing.
Autodesk’s Simulation products can help analyze heat transfer, fluid flows, and mechanical stresses. When used well, they can help you create designs that use energy and materials more effectively. This webinar shows you how!
Shakeel Mirza, Autodesk Technical Consultant explores the benefits of using simulation to create digital prototypes and save both time and money when creating even complex products.
The iPhone 5 came out just this past weekend, and in the first three days Apple sold about 5 million of them. This sounds like a great success, but is there a problem with the durability of the new product? What do we even mean when we talk about durability?
We at the Autodesk Sustainability Workshop are trying to influence architecture and engineering practice through education. One exciting thing we’ve been delving into recently is workflows for high performance building design.
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