What is biomimicry? The simplest explanation is that it is design inspired by nature. By studying individual fauna and flora forms and natural systems, designers, businesses and engineers are ...

Awarding the top ecological projects of the year, d3 has announced this year’s winners of its Natural Systems competition ... performance-based design. The brief challenges architects, designers ...

Natural Systems Design purchased the building from the Grunhurd family, with the deal closing on April 1. The purchase price was $1.5 million, according to documents filed at the Whatcom County ...

"I wish we had been at the design table at the Industrial Revolution." In natural systems, nothing is wasted, since everything can be used by something else. Instead of using large inputs of ...

The reasons for this difficulty are some striking differences in the design strategies ... enforced by natural selection 12. Here we present the sophisticated mechanosensory systems of spiders ...

d3 is pleased to announce the winners of the Natural Systems international architectural design competition for 2010. The program, developed by co-directors Gregory Marinic and Mary-Jo Schlachter ...

Robotics and systems design research focuses on identifying fundamental principles ... These three core competencies are: Methodologies for understanding natural and engineered system behavior through ...

A new law regulating septic systems will curb pollution caused by a lack of natural filtration into freshwater bodies, advocates say.

Conducted by Pacific Northwest environmental design and engineering firm Natural Systems Design and Coastal Geologic Services, with the research institute Washington Sea Grant and the National ...