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Join Matthew D. Butler, AIA and others for this panel discussion next week at the Environments for Aging conference! #seniorliving #seniorlivingdevelopment

"The future of senior living is innovative, inclusive, and designed for connection." BCT Design Group's Principal/Director of Housing, Janet Meyer, AIA, had the honor of moderating a dynamic panel at this year’s Interface Senior Housing Northeast conference. The conversation explored key trends shaping senior housing, including: - Larger units and repositioning/renovation to meet evolving demands. - A strong focus on wellness and incredible amenity packages. - Educational offerings and socialization areas catering to the Boomer generation. - Creative solutions like office-to-residential conversions. Thank you to the panelists: Shannon Remaley,NCIDQ, EDAC, WELL AP, LEED Green Associate, Principal, Meyer Steve Ruiz, Principal, Moseley Architects Bud Grove, VP of Senior Living, Wohlsen Construction Alejandro Giraldo, Principal, Perkins Eastman #SeniorLivingDesign #InterfaceNortheast #WellnessLiving #HousingTrends #BoomerGeneration

Don't miss the latest issue of Seniors Housing Business — see "Architects Embrace Placemaking" on the cover! From ground-up development to renovations, this new wave of projects aims to connect seniors more fully with their surroundings. Architects are placing greater emphasis on the outdoors as well as maximizing the use of space. By Matt Valley; insights from — Chuck Archer, LRS Architects, Inc.; Janet Meyer, AIA, BCT Design Group; Shannon Remaley,NCIDQ, EDAC, WELL AP, LEED Green Associate, Meyer; LuAnn Holec, FASID & Keith Stanton ASID, NCIDQ, CHIDThoma-Holec Design; Dean Maddalena, StudioSIX5; Walt Chancey, Chancey Architecture & Interior Desgin. Inside This Issue: Providers Leverage Healthcare Partnerships to Win Value-based care provides an opportunity to improve patient outcomes, lower costs and potentially share in the savings, say industry experts. By Jane Adler; insights from — Severine Petras, Priority Life Care, LLC; Joel Theisen, RN, Lifespark; Conor McCaw, Curana Health. The SHB Interview: Vassar Byrd, CEO of The Kendal Corporation Armed with an entrepreneurial spirit and a track record of success, this leader is determined to take the nonprofit organization with deep Quaker roots to the next level. By Joe Gose. Read the issue: https://lnkd.in/d82MtZRc #SeniorsHousing #CRE #SeniorLiving #Healthcare

Thank you to Sydney Build who invited me to speak in a panel discussion at their annual expo regarding “Designing Australia’s Cities to Last: Balancing the Old and the New’. I took the stage with Apeksha Wimalaweera of Gray Puksand , Nicholas Rouggos of CBRE and Michael Wiener of Mirvac - a great diversity of speakers with experience ranging from urban planning, to infrastructure, to re-purposing commercial buildings, to myself with low and medium rise residential, which made for a lively discussion with lots of great questions from the audience! From my perspective, working with single and multi-residential projects, in the heritage and contemporary fields, this comes at a crucial time, during the Minn's NSW Government proposals to increase housing density for affordability via their: " Changes to create Low and Medium Density Housing", and "Transport Oriented Development Proposal". Both documents propose substantially increasing housing density in zones up to 1200 metres from certain train stations and town centres. These areas include Heritage Items and Heritage Conservation Areas, and there was initially some uncertainty as to whether the proposal allowed demolition of buildings in these areas. Two days before the talk, an update was issued clarifying heritage areas would be required to go through the Development Application process, rather than the accelerated process, which is good news. In my opinion heritage is important, for our culture and identity. Heritage isn’t always a single property of value, it could be a group of buildings which together form a precinct. It would have been a great shame to lose these buildings in the designated areas. On the other hand, increased housing density is necessary for housing affordability. There may be some buildings and areas with lesser merit, where there is an opportunity to develop and increase density? However, how will this be managed? Its a balance between the old and the new. A merit based approach allows a professional panel to decide on a case by case basis for each individual Development Application. Existing Heritage Items and Conservation Areas could be re-assessed by the Councils affected to retain the items of higher value. Also, any new higher density buildings need to incorporate excellent design, construction and environmental standards. In any case, architects and heritage professionals need to be a part of this process to ensure quality of the built environment is first and foremost. #SydneyBuildExpo #SustainableArchitecture #HeritageArchitecture #MediumDensityHousing #DualOccupancy #TOD #BuildingConnections #Construction #Networking #ArchitectureSydney

Jianying Liao and Dr. Samuel Cai from the University of Leicester explore sustainable solutions to mitigate heatwave impacts in urban environments. Their insights offer practical approaches to create cooler, more resilient cities. Key Points: Urban Planning: Integrating green spaces and reflective materials in city planning to reduce urban heat island effects. Innovative Architecture: Designing buildings with passive cooling techniques and sustainable materials to minimize heat absorption. Community Engagement: Encouraging community involvement in implementing and maintaining sustainable cooling solutions. By adopting these sustainable practices, urban areas can better withstand extreme heat and protect their residents. #HeatwavePrevention #SustainableUrbanPlanning #ResilientCities #AIDMI #ClimateAction

Discovering Erie’s Stories: Your Input Matters! The City of Erie is working on an exciting Historic Resources Survey to catalog the city’s buildings, landscapes, and neighborhoods—and we need your voice to help shape this effort! As an architect with a passion for adaptive reuse and community-driven design, I know how critical it is to connect with the stories and identities behind our built environment. This project is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate Erie’s rich heritage while paving the way for thoughtful preservation and revitalization. Here’s how you can get involved: 👉 Explore the project details here: https://lnkd.in/dczH28TS 👉 Share your memories, stories, or insights about Erie’s places, spaces, and events to help document and enrich our city’s cultural narrative. Whether it’s a favorite historic building, a cherished neighborhood, or a local story passed down through generations, your input could help inspire future projects—and maybe even spark ideas for adaptive reuse or preservation efforts right here in Erie. What places or memories stand out to you? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments. Let’s collaborate to honor Erie’s past while building its future! #HistoricPreservation #AdaptiveReuse #EriePA #CommunityEngagement

For three decades, Jensen PLUS has been shaping places across Australia. We’ve planned growing towns and suburbs, created public spaces, renewed city centres and neighbourhood main streets. We’ve helped transform development sites, we’ve greened parks and reserves, and we’ve charted strategic futures for hundreds of places, all from our base in Adelaide, South Australia. Our team of urban planners, landscape architects, urban designers and engagement specialists has always strived to provide high quality and independent advice. As our team has grown and evolved over 30 years, so has our approach to our work and the values that inform it. Our work has long been underpinned by a clear commitment to sustainable practices and outcomes. But it is increasingly apparent that this isn’t enough.   As we approached and celebrate our 30th milestone, our team revisited what drives our passion for and approach to our work, unanimously agreeing we take our role in nurturing and preserving our environment seriously and aim enhance it for future generations. This is why we have adopted a ‘regenerative’ approach to our planning and design projects, emphasising the need for positive and restorative change for local environments, communities and economies through all our work. Our commitment to regenerative planning and design is underpinned by a renewed business purpose in 2024, founded on three pillars — Regenerative, Collaborative, Caring. Read our story https://lnkd.in/gV-YQwZT Michael McKeown, Patrick Iwanyshyn, Reb Rowe, Marko Separovic, Natalia Gonzalez, Chao Du, Joshua Woo, Nina Phillips, Vicki White #JensenPLUS #urbanplanning #urbandesign #landscapearchitecture #regenerativedesign #adelaide #southaustralia

The #CraftandDesignCanberraFestival kicked off with a fantastic Symposium: The #Future of #Housing and the Need for #Public #Amenity. This symposium brought together visionary #architects, #urbandesigners, #policymakers, and #economists to discuss the evolving landscape of residential architecture, the need for more diverse housing typologies, and the strategies for delivering public spaces and streetscapes that promote healthy living. Housing densification was seen as a necessary construct for the future of our cities, and it was acknowledged that urban renewal would be required. The discussion focused on how Canberra as a city based on ‘garden city’ design principles, highlighted as one of the world’s most liveable cities, could retain its landscape quality while delivering a compact city with missing-middle housing supported by high-quality public amenities for its residents. Australian Institute of Architects City Renewal Authority Suburban Land Agency Craft + Design Canberra #Festival @Rob Henry - unlock planning drivers to prioritize the missing middle Petra Oswald - need to shift the engineered character of our roads and instead make them streets. Demonstration precincts can demonstrate the value of missing middle typologies Lucy Wilson - vibrancy should be an outcome..."with more dense housing the jam (social / infrastructure returns) can be thicker on the toast" "Design a good street (rather than a road) and you are designing a good city"- Rob Adams AM Felicity Stewart - "Canberra has a space problem" .... way too much poorly utilized and defined space Greg Jericho - the Australian system is geared for land investment driven profit...."it's entirely predictable where we are headed with affordability."

Siri Zanelli and Joe Scragg will be presenting our recent Deep Retrofit: Mid Terrace Dream, at the Architects’ Journal #RetrofitLive conference this week as part of their Live Judging for the Retrofit Awards. Mid Terrace Dream is a very typical Victorian Terrace in North London. When our client bought it, it was rundown, draughty and inefficient. While our client didn’t come to us asking for a deep retrofit, they did ask for a home that is prepared for the future, has clean, filtered air - as asthma runs in their families – and a home that reflects their heritage and personalities. Alongside submitting it to this award, we ran the numbers - the U values, the airtightness, the operational energy, we looked at a years worth of bills, and calculated the embodied carbon - and we were very happy with the results, which are significantly better than building regulations and RIBA guidelines. However, this project shouldn't be remarkable. It should tell the story of the retrofit of thousands of home that are being upgraded across the country. It uses technologies that are tried and tested, alongside reuse and natural materials. Its very normality is what gives us hope, that this kind of deep domestic retrofit could also become very commonplace, upgrading the nations homes, making them more comfortable to live in, and reducing their impact on our environment. If you are Retrofit Live, do come and listen.

Many thanks to Material Source for the interview. We discuss our practice ethos, as well as a focus on some of the challenges facing the industry. See the full story below!