EBSCO’s mission is to create positive results in the people we employ, in the businesses and products we build and in the communities where we work and live. As part of this mission, EBSCO is committed to nurturing social, economic and environmental sustainability as a core value within the company and is dedicated to supporting numerous green initiatives at our offices worldwide.
As one example, sustainable architecture is reflected in EBSCO’s ongoing efforts to promote the benefits of solar energy. EBSCO’s headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama is now home to the state’s largest, non-utility solar array, and the EIS Ipswich office boasts more than 500 solar panels on its sprawling campus, generating clean energy to reduce the company’s environmental footprint. In further support of sustainable design, EBSCO’s Solar Grant Program aims to educate, inform and directly impact energy consumption, helping to fund solar installations at libraries worldwide. To date, this program has provided more than $1,000,000 in solar arrays to libraries and educational organizations in several countries.
In addition, EBSCO provides onsite sustainability options for employees, including but not limited to electric car charging stations, hybrid company cars, recycled paper products, semiannual electronics recycling days and various energy reduction efforts with lighting and use of motion-activation sensors.
The practice and promotion of sustainable architecture, also known as green or environmental architecture, has been a company priority for years, though the term has recently lent itself as a buzzword to construction and design industries. Interior Designers and Academic Architects can learn more about sustainable materials, renewable architecture and innovative, immersive technologies through the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database, offered on EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service.
Published by the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, this indexed database offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and sustainable design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers scholarly and popular periodical literature including publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia, with content updated weekly.
Journal coverage related to sustainable architecture in particular includes architectural articles from art and planning journals such as Urban Land, Journal of Green Building, Greensource: the magazine of sustainable design, International Journal of sustainable building technology and urban development, and more. Architecture students can use the Avery Index to conduct literature reviews, track publication updates, gather background information for design projects, and stay informed on the latest developments in emerging fields like environmental architecture.
OnArchitecture is an audiovisual archive of architecture online, founded in 2012 by Chilean architects Felipe De Ferrari and Diego Grass along with psychologist Claudio Mesa. It offers a deep and detailed panorama of the world’s main authors, works, experiences and issues related to the field of architecture. OnArchitecture features video interviews with influential contemporary architects throughout the world. The interviews are supplemented by video portraits of their key projects, both buildings and installations. Original videos in the collection cover design processes and the role of architects and architecture in contemporary society.
EBSCO also offers the complimentary GreenFILE database, which covers all aspects of human impact to the environment, with titles highlighting evolving subjects such as green building and renewable energy.
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