Does energy consumption influence architectural style? Should energy-efficient buildings look different? These are questions being asked—and hopefully being answered—at an architecture and energy symposium on January 27, 2012 in Philadelphia.
The "Architecture and Energy" workshop is part of a program funded by US Department of Energy (DOE) grants—part of the money you hear Congress reauthorizing occasionally.
Is this a good way for the federal government to be spending taxpayer dollars? Leave a comment and let us know.
The Friday symposium is sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC) for Energy-Efficient Buildings, a DOE "Energy Innovation Hub," in collaboration with the
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If you follow your links to the GPICHUB, read this:
“The Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC) for Energy Efficient Buildings received $129 million from the Federal Government’s Energy Regional Innovation Cluster (E-RIC) Initiative. The award included $122 million from the U.S. DOE to create an Energy Innovation Hub to develop innovative energy efficient building technologies, designs and systems.”
And this is just one hub. That’s an awful lot of money for something that private sector architects should be doing anyway.