Building Beautifully: Weaving Sustainability Into the Built Environment

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Climate change and sustainability touch every corner of the news cycle and every corner of our lives – as they should. We're increasingly aware of how important it is to take action to mitigate the man-made impacts on the climate, and the built environment is taking stock of how to address climate change and increase sustainability. In this episode of the Design-Build Delivers Podcast, Molly Jones talks about Building Beautifully, her 2024 book that tackles how project delivery method impacts sustainability.
Guest:
Molly Jones, AIA, LEED AP, GGP, GPCP, DBIA
President, Jones Design Studio, PLLC

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Chapters

1. Building Beautifully: Weaving Sustainability Into the Built Environment (00:00:00)

2. How Molly’s Mother Set Her Path (00:01:13)

3. Tackling an Old Subject with New Tools (00:04:13)

4. Defining Building Beautifully (00:06:41)

5. What We Do at the Start Affects What We Can Do at the End (00:08:04)

6. Every Member of a Design-Build Team Plays a Role, but Owners Must Lead (00:09:13)

7. How Design-Build is Situated to Improve Sustainability (00:11:16)

8. Lessons from the Past: How Research and Climate Records Can Tell Us How to Move Forward (00:14:08)

9. What Does a Beautifully Built Project Look Like? (00:21:25)

10. DBIA Plays a Role in Building Beautifully, Sustainably (00:22:19)

11. Small-Scale Owner Goals Can Go a Long Way (00:26:00)

12. Nothing Good is Ever Easy, But It’s Worth It (00:28:40)

13. Building Beautifully Builds Better Communities (00:30:22)

14. A Football (Elevator?) Pitch for Building Beautifully (00:34:26)

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