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48. Week in Review
Labor disputes and heavy snowfall were the dominant factors affecting the Low2No innovation pipeline this week. Myself and most of the Finnish delegation did manage to reach Garmisch for the final two...
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49. Week in Review
Carefully measured compromise has been the name of the game this week. Deep in the DNA of Low2No is an embrace of market pressures, dominant business models and political realities. We know that...
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51-52. Week in Review
Low2No is a product of many motivations. One is a belief that "demonstration projects" are of limited efficacy in terms of their ability to impact business as usual operations. Here is an excerpt from...
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01. Week in Review
Happy New Year!Week 01 of 2011 was surprisingly busy, but mostly with internal processes that are gearing up for events and publications later this winter and spring. For instance, we have come to...
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02. Week in Review
The project team kicked-off 2011 with an intense, but effective meeting at Arup's London offices. Topics discussed ranged from the structural efficiency afforded by different basement layouts to...
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03. Week in Review
This week, Marco and I were with Bryan at the Umeå Institute of Design conducting a strategic design studio with students. Umeå is a beautiful town and the compressed studio experience was exhausting,...
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04. Week in Review
This week our design team has been working frantically to finalize the concept phase documents to reflect the decisions that have been taken by the client team. The project needs to quickly move into...
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05. Week in Review
Sitra office flexible ownership and occupation studyIt was a fairly quiet week this week. Marco and I were on conference calls with Sauerbruch Hutton and Arup every two days to help push along the...
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06. Week in Review
Other than the Low2No conference covered in the previous post, this week's big news: work is commencing on site! A detailed geotechnical evaluation was conducted to determine just where our site sits...
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A little local press (in English)
We are Helsinki (the city's free culture magazine) published this interesting take on the Low2No project. Take a look!Screen shot from Low2No's writeup in We Are HelsinkiProject update coming soon, I...
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07-10. Week in Review
basecamp is blowing upThe last three weeks have had a pace that is at times blistering and occasionally seemingly at a stand still. This is, I think a product of this phase of the project where teams...
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11. Week in Review
Week 11 marked the beginning of our co-location scheme described last week. While I was not there, this method seems to already be bearing fruit. The design of the block is beginning to "click"...
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12-13. Week in Review
Design continues in Helsinki. We have been working to coordinate building components such as air handling equipment and photo voltaic panels on the buildings' roofs, fresh air intakes and facade...
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14-15. Week in Review
Low2No is developing greater detail on many fronts: from cost estimates and coordination studies to synergistic mechanical systems and sky lights in the sauna. The volume of work is growing...
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16-20. Week in Review
It's been a busy four weeks:The design team delivered the schematic design document set.The client team pored over the drawings and Arup's very useful Basis of Design documents to find out just what...
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21. Week in Review
This week, a reminder of one of principal motivations for this project:Ruoholahti Coal Delivery from Sitra- Finnish Innovation FundWhat you see is coal from Eastern Europe or Russia being offloaded...
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22. Week in Review
Some great video from Demos at Low2No camp in Berlin:Nice work! We hope to have a guest post from the Demos folks once everyone has had some time to reflect.Low2No Informatics WorkbookAlso this week,...
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41. Week in Review
BIM model screen shot of Sitra's timber office ©ArupBack on the job here at Low2No. Work has been proceeding at a blistering pace in London and Berlin as our design team prepares to deliver our L2, or...
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