New Apartment Homes Prove Public Housing Can Be Sustainably Designed

Sustainable design achievable without having to add significant cost; owner and residents reap benefits

The Village Green site is designed to create an urban neighborhood feeling. Sidewalks and crosswalks, as well as a park behind the building, connect the apartment community to the surrounding development. © Sarah Dorio

ROME, Ga. – As the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established public housing programs for low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities, public housing by definition must be affordable for its residents. But not all public housing is also sustainably designed.

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State of Georgia’s Only Dental School Gets New Home Providing Family-centric Care Environment

Sustainably designed building pursues LEED Silver certification; features warm, embracing design

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The State of Georgia’s only dental school – the Georgia Health Sciences University (GHSU) College of Dental Medicine (CDM) – has a new $112 million home that features a warm, embracing, family-centric care environment, provides state-of-the-art equipment for both students and dental practices, and fulfills a need for the university to educate more dentists.

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Lord, Aeck & Sargent Rounds Out Credentials of its New Austin Office

Addition of two associates allows office to offer full range of capabilities in a wide variety of practice areas

AUSTIN, Texas – Following closely its November asset purchase of Austin’s TWC Architects, architecture firm Lord, Aeck & Sargent (LAS) today announced that with the addition of two associates, the Austin office now offers clients throughout Texas and nearby states the firm’s full range of capabilities.

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