Material transparency is key for architects and designers to improve health, reduce environmental impact, and promote equity. We use transparency frameworks like LEED, Living Building Challenge and the AIA Materials Pledge to inform our practice.
As we help communities design their streets, transportation systems, and public spaces, we recognize the uncertainty that big changes can bring. By focusing on the fundamentals of walkable communities and safe, accessible networks, we will be resilient.
Buffalo’s stormwater challenge is to protect its water resources and public health as its aging combined sewer network continues to collect and treat increasing amounts of rain and melting snow.
Millvale, Etna, and Sharpsburg are three rivertown communities whose pursuits of district scale sustainability brought them together as a multi municipal ecodistrict to pool their forces.
evolveEA Principal Marc Mondor gives a testimony on behalf of AIA Pennsylvania during Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale's visit to Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, PA — The Pennsylvania chapter of the American Institute of Architects has recognized evolve environment :: architecture (evolveEA) with an architectural excellence award for the firm’s redesign of the area surrounding Port Authority’s Penn Station, on Pittsburgh’s MLK East Busway.
This year's EcoDistricts Summit and Rail~Volution conference affirmed our approach to transit planning and community engagement: Leading with Equity.
While traditional development focuses on developing the built environment, ecodistrict planning focuses on developing both the hardware AND software of a community.
Green stormwater infrastructure works best as a system that integrates water and ecological systems into community open spaces. evolveEA was... View Article
