What can COVID-19 teach us about climate change?
While the most urgent challenge now facing the global community is stopping the spread of COVID-19 and mitigating its impacts, the race to fight climate change continues.
And parallels between the pandemic crisis and the climate crisis could even be instructive – pointing toward climate solutions that could help salvage something positive from tragedy.
Here are a few of the preliminary lessons experts have identified.
ABI March 2020: Architecture firm billings plummet as a result of the global pandemic
COVID-19 outbreak already having serious impacts on staffing and business at many firms
Billings at architecture firms plummeted in March as the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) fell by 20.1 points to a score of 33.3 for the month (a score over 50 indicates increasing billings, a score below 50 indicates declining billings). This is by far the largest single month decline the index has seen in its nearly 25-year history, far surpassing the declines of 9.4 points seen at the start of the 2001 recession and 8.3 points seen at the start of the Great Recession. It reflects just how quickly and fundamentally business conditions have changed across the country and around the world in the last month as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
AIA Board of Directors approves new AIA Strategic and Climate Action Plans
The AIA Board of Directors met virtually over four days between April 14-17 to discuss a range of issues from approving the association’s new strategic plan to operational disruptions related to COVID-19.
AIAU Live Course: Rapid-Response Housing in Pandemic Environments - April 30
King County, Washington, was the “epicenter” of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Learn how DLR Group partnered with the county to deliver nearly 1,000 quarantine, assessment, and recovery beds in various communities within a matter of weeks through rapid assessment, design, and construction methods. Lessons learned will equip designers and communities to better manage pandemic events in the future.
Toward Zero-Carbon Housing Webinar - May 4
This course begins to tackle a big question: where do the goals of meeting housing needs, preparing for climate change impacts, and reducing greenhouse gases intersect? To be successful, housing created now must be built to be a resilient foundation for a sustainable urban future that does not further social inequities exacerbated by climate change.