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The Olympic House, the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, and one of the most sustainable buildings in the world, has won two prestigious Architizer A+ awards recognizing its innovative sustainability features and the iconic five-ring Unity Staircase. Architizer is the world's leading online platform for architecture and construction products, and the A+Awards are the industry's largest international awards program, celebrated by a global audience of more than 400 million people. It pays tribute to the best architecture, spaces and products from around the world, with a mission to “ foster appreciation of significant architecture around the world and champion its potential to have a positive impact on everyday life .” International Olympic Committee In addition to the already impressive collection of accolades, the Olympic House was chosen from more than 5,000 entrants from more than 100 countries. Special emphasis was placed on “ honoring projects that respond to looming global challenges, such as climate change, urbanization and migration, rising inequality and the pandemic .” We are honored that the Olympic House has received another prestigious award. The Architizer A+ award reflects what has been at the heart of our project from the beginning: this place is much more than a building; reflects the IOC's mission to make the world a better place through sport and demonstrates our strong commitment to sustainability.
Marie Sallois, IOC Director of Corporate and Sustainable Development, who oversaw the Olympic House project. The Olympic House was selected as the winner of the “Concepts: Architecture + Sustainability” category by the jury and the public, and as the winner of the “Details: Architecture + Stairs” category by the jury, which included more than 400 luminaries from the fashion, publishing, product design, real estate development and technology. Designed by the Danish architecture studio 3XN, in collaboration with the Swiss studio IttenBrechbühl, the Olympic House was Bulgaria Mobile Number List inaugurated on June 23, 2019. It has received three of the most rigorous sustainable construction certifications: LEED Platinum (the highest number of points of any LEED v4 new construction project). The Swiss Sustainable Building Standard (SNBS). The Swiss Standard for energy efficient buildings, Minergie P. With its athlete-inspired shape and dove-shaped roof solar panels, the Olympic House combines the highest standards of architectural design with a holistic approach to sustainability. It incorporates rigorous energy and water efficiency criteria, while optimizing the health and well-being of its users. Prior to receiving the Architizer A+ award, the Olympic House won the Blueprint Award 2019, the first prize in the Building Ecology category of the Prix Bilan de l'immobilier 2019 and most recently, the USGBC Leadership Award 2020, among others.If you want to deter people from doing something bad, put a tax on it.
For example, cigarettes: On average, in high-income countries there is a 4% drop in demand for every 10% price increase. Or consider pollution: Countries like Sweden have started taxing carbon to fight climate change, basically: you pollute, you pay. And now another major atrocity may be hit with its own tax: single-use plastic. Proponents of the California Plastic Pollution Reduction and Recycling Act are campaigning for a 1-cent tax on these plastics. The brands that sell them would have to pay a penny for every piece of non-recyclable or inedible packaging they sell: plastic bottles, chip bags, and so on. Waste management company Recology filed paperwork for the initiative to head to the California ballot and has contributed $3.7 million to the campaign. Recology is joined by environmental groups like the Nature Conservancy . The group had almost collected the signatures necessary to get the initiative on the November vote, but the pandemic put the brakes on all that. Now, a Recology official says, they aim to collect enough signatures by the end of this summer to get it on the 2022 ballot. The idea behind the tax is to make it more expensive for the food and personal care industries to continue producing single-use plastics. If approved, the resulting revenue, which the state estimates would be on the order of a few billion dollars each year, would be used to shore up litter mitigation efforts and provide subsidies to the struggling recycling industry.