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BluEnt seeks to make green architecture techniques and technology available to even small/medium architectural firms through partnerships, which they may not be able to otherwise afford.
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BluEnt seeks to make green architecture techniques and technology available to even small/medium architectural firms through partnerships, which they may not be able to otherwise afford.
October 24, 2008 – BuildUp 2008, Bangalore, India - Building and construction have a sizable impact on the environment. In the United States alone, buildings account for 40-49% energy consumption, 25% water consumption, 70% of total domestic energy consumption and 38% of total carbon dioxide release. With building construction and real estate development on the rise, architects, designers and builders are forced to take on a more sensitive design approach giving due consideration to the environment.
Understanding these adverse effects of buildings on the environment and the need for a sustainable design and construction process, stirred the need within BluEnt's architectural team to make green architecture techniques and technology more pervasive. So much so that even small and medium architecture firms would be able to perform at par with large architecture firms. Revolutionizing green architecture compliance to the stage that even the lowest rung architecture firms can adopt these techniques in their architectural design process thus became the sole purpose of bringing innovation to our offshore offerings.
"Creating green architecture that can be accessed by any and all architectural firms around the world, regardless of their size, was meant to achieve two things," says Sajeel Khanna, Senior Vice President, BluEnt, "We were looking at improving the position of smaller architectural firms and bring them at par with regards to expertise and infrastructure involvement. The changing trends require, at the same time, that green architecture be made a more universal component in architectural design".
To cement its ‘green’ initiative BluEnt, promotes Architectural Evangelist, a quarterly e-Zine that tracks the new currents flowing through the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. AE is dedicated to assist architects, interior designers, builders, and students in disseminating knowledge relating to the architecture domain.
AE is geared towards addressing concerns of global warming, climate change, and ecological imbalance. BluEnt takes one-upmanship in providing various models that increase the environmental performance of buildings.
AE tanks up your knowledge bank with new ‘Green Building’ solutions, as the world gears up to combat global warming and to restore eco-balance. Also, AE extensively deals with Vernacular Architecture, in celebration of ‘old-world’ or native building methodologies that are in harmony with our natural cocoon. Such buildings use local and, as far as possible, natural construction materials. Therefore, they put near-zero stress on the environment.
BluEnt advocates sustainable modes of living. In this regard, AE tracks the development of ‘Walk-able Communities,’ where the township is designed to do away with personal motorized transport and adopts mass-transit public transport.
BluEnt’s think-tank battles to dispel myths and shatter stereotypes associated with outsourcing knowledge-intensive businesses. Service industries in the outsourcing sector are often typecast as cheap labor sweatshops. In this regard, there’s a biblical feature on how outsourcing supports and leverages businesses all over the world. In fact, AE shows how outsourcing is indispensable for global business development. BluEnt wishes to promote India as an indispensable storehouse for knowledge process services like architectural drafting and construction management for high-quality output and business innovation.
AE also follows a wider range of topics. A feature on Modernist Architecture highlights the various design styles that ruled the 20th century and still continue into our present. It is backed by an elaborate article on Organic Architecture, as a tribute to avant-gardism in building design. If you want to know how ‘less is more’ in architecture, there’s a feature on ‘functionalism’ in architecture, backed by factual support from the Roman times till the modern days.
The team de force behind Architectural Evangelist is a resource-rich association of architects, designers, researchers, management consultants, content editors and feature writers dedicated to exploring the best architectural practices around the world. The benevolent creative sponsors and the management at BluEnt, has been the anchor of support to the AE team.
BluEnt has a global service base, with clients from the US, UK, Australia, NZ, Middle East, and elsewhere. Therefore, it has come up with AE, with the motive of building a future where buildings, around the world, have a lower carbon foot-print. BluEnt supports and deals in buildings that use and recycle natural resources efficiently, thus contributing towards a sustainable world.
With this purpose in mind, BluEnt sought to create workshare and expertise transfer models for offering solutions to architectural firms for effective incorporation of green architecture knowledge and techniques within their organization. These models are so designed that they do not require hiring of additional experts or addition to existing infrastructure and technology within the organization.
Simple yet effective, BluEnt's workshare and expertise sharing models has created a sea change in the world of green architecture. Small and medium firms around the world, which were previously unable to afford or conceive, can now implement more than 180 engineering elements of green architecture into their projects with BluEnt by their side.
BluEnt's architectural team's expertise in technology and science behind green architecture and the compliance and design process are now employed by these firms within their organizations as indigenous expertise. With the intention of promoting sustainable architecture, BluEnt has released an architectural newsletter; Architectural Evangelist, that details about the world's view towards sustainable architecture.
BluEnt's GreenArch endeavor has so far proved to be a tremendous success not only for BluEnt but also for the architectural firms that partner with BluEnt for the same and for the cause of sustainable architecture worldwide.
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