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August Williams-Eynon

August Williams-Eynon is a manager with the Greenprint Center for Building Performance and the Urban Resilience team, both housed in the ULI Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance.

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Resilience and Sustainability
Indigenous Environmental and Climate Justice Series: Indigenous Climate Action
Indigenous Climate Action is an Indigenous-led organization guided by a diverse group of Indigenous knowledge keepers, water protectors, and land defenders from communities and regions across the country. We believe that Indigenous Peoples’ rights and knowledge systems are critical to developing solutions to the climate crisis and achieving climate justice.
August 25, 2023
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Resilience and Sustainability
Indigenous Environmental and Climate Justice Series: Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab, MASS Design Group
MASS Design Group is a mission-driven organization founded to support partners in delivering innovative capital projects that fundamentally improve lives and act as enablers of shared prosperity. The mission of the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab is to close the wealth gap in Indian Country through culturally responsive housing development and Native home ownership.
August 24, 2023
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Resilience and Sustainability
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Residential
$2 Billion in New HUD Funds Available for Decarbonization, Resilience in Multifamily Buildings
The Green and Resilient Retrofit Program, a new program, has made funds available from the Inflation Reduction Act to support decarbonization and resilience upgrades.
August 17, 2023
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Development and Construction
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Historic Preservation
Nature Positive and Net Zero: Four Scales of Action for Ecological Real Estate
Stakeholders across the real estate value chain are increasingly recognizing that the climate crisis and biodiversity loss are deeply interlinked, and one issue cannot be solved without addressing the other. However, solutions are ready and available for real estate to implement today, according to a new report out of ULI’s Greenprint Center for Building Performance: Nature Positive and Net Zero: The Ecology of Real Estate, sponsored by Jacobs.
November 10, 2022
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August Williams-Eynon
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Resilience and Sustainability
Five Innovations Enhancing “Cloudburst” Resilience
Extreme rain events are increasing in frequency due to climate change, and many cities’ infrastructure and landscapes are not equipped to manage the intense volumes of water. Further, storm and sewer drains are slow, expensive, and disruptive to update for higher volumes, and channeling water directly out of the landscape creates missed opportunities to enhance landscapes with green infrastructure, biodiversity, and restorative recreational space for urban residents.
June 22, 2022
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August Williams-Eynon
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Resilience and Sustainability
Visualizing Future Emissions: New EPA Tool Helps Real Estate Reduce Carbon Risks
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed a new tool to help real estate companies estimate past, current, and future carbon emissions from their buildings and portfolios, which promises to facilitate easier tracking and reporting on progress toward net zero.
May 12, 2022
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August Williams-Eynon
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Resilience and Sustainability
Retrofitting for Resilience: How to Protect Existing Buildings from Floods, Fires, and More While Preserving Embodied Carbon
How can existing buildings be retrofitted to withstand increasing climate risks? It is no secret that most buildings in use today are not prepared to handle stronger storms, higher sea levels, and longer wildfire seasons. With two-thirds of 2040’s global building stock already built, these structures must be addressed, according to a new ULI report, Resilient Retrofits: Climate Upgrades for Existing Buildings.
April 28, 2022
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Resilience and Sustainability
Shaping Cohesive Climate Resilience Strategies for Affordable Housing in Brooklyn’s Marlboro Houses
In 2021, the New York City Housing Authority enlisted the help of ULI New York and the Institute’s Urban Resilience Program through a virtual technical assistance panel to assess how to boost climate resilience at one of its residential campuses, Marlboro Houses, in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. Home to more than 4,000 New Yorkers, the site was damaged by Superstorm Sandy, with residents experiencing basement flooding and heat and power outages lasting up to a week.
December 7, 2021
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In Depth
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Innovation Districts & Corridors
World Green Building Week: Resilient Buildings Are Key to a Green Future
A growing number of resilient buildings can serve as models for how to embed resilience in building design and economics, ensuring that both inhabitants and financial performance are protected in the long run.
September 15, 2021
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Resilience and Sustainability
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Spring Meeting
Five Cost-Effective Technologies Enabling Buildings to Reach Net Zero
The path to net-zero buildings may sound daunting, but five technologies can help break it down: reduce building energy demand as much as possible, use sensors to optimize what cannot be eliminated, and turn to renewables to meet whatever demand remains through on-site and then off-site options, with batteries to make sure the power is there when needed. Experts speaking at an on-demand session outlined how key technologies can work in concert to achieve the net-zero goal.
May 10, 2021
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