The 2011 Emirates Glass LEAF Awards returns for its 9th annual year on 16 September honouring the architects designing the buildings and solutions that are setting the benchmark for the international architectural community. The jury comprises of a number of renown key individuals.

The manufacturer of elevators Riedl is first to market a telescopic sliding door with a packet thickness of only 125 mm. It fulfills the newest fire protection class EN 81-58. LIZ is particularly suitable for the modification of elevator systems.

Encouraging Architectural Projects in Asia-Pacific are the focus of the exhibition and the accompanying events at Aedes am Pfefferberg in Berlin, Germany. 30 projects from 10 countries show new technologies, urban design concepts, hybrid flood tunnels and further innovations.

Building Research Establishment and John Pike, one of the UK's top property consultants, deliver the UK's most innovate conference on the subject of managing sustainability in commercial property on 23 November 2011 in London/England.

It is important to place priority on optimizing existing buildings. With its certificate for existing buildings and an instrument for the analysis of existing buildings, the DGNB is focusing on this building segment and offering new solutions.

The DGNB is very actively involved in international networks; e.g. in countries like Luxembourg, Austria and Switzerland. The DGNB system has also been applied in other regions such as Eastern Europe, where building projects are undergoing the certification process.

A German study shows that natural stone facades require a significantly lower amount of primary energy than do glass facade systems. Over the entire life cycle, glass facades require more than three times as much primary energy than natural stone facades.

Architect Max Dudler received the German Natural Stone Award 2011 for the new Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm Centre at the Humboldt University, Berlin. The biennial award focuses on natural stone as an exemplary building material due to its energy efficiency and sustainability aspects.

The Institute of Building Design and Management of the University Leipzig organizes this Conference on 22 and 23 September 2011.The discussion focuses on the increasing globalisation that is changing our working and planning processes as well as the scope of services and methods.

The project "Implementation of relevant European teaching contents in the studies of landscape architecture" (EU teach) has started on the 1st of November 2010. The project is funded with "ERASMUS-Life Long Learning" programme of the European Union.