profile: Kyle Taylor

In an interview, Kyle Taylor, an ITE student member who was recently named the first volunteer ambassador in South Carolina for the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), talked about his extra-curricular activities. ILFI is the most rigorous standard for sustainability, which takes a systema...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:ITE journal 2013-01, Vol.83 (1), p.16-17
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Appeals
Associations
Best practice
Built environment
Case studies
Civil engineering
Community
Construction
Design
Design engineering
Energy consumption
Engineers
Green buildings
Infrastructure
Metaphors
Organisms
Personal health
Personal profiles
Problem solving
Students
Sustainability
Taylor, Kyle
Volunteers
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:In an interview, Kyle Taylor, an ITE student member who was recently named the first volunteer ambassador in South Carolina for the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), talked about his extra-curricular activities. ILFI is the most rigorous standard for sustainability, which takes a systematic, all or nothing approach rather than letting owners and designers pick and choose which best practices they want to use. This is what he thinks makes it unique and is why it appeals so much to him. The Challenge acknowledges that everything is systematic and scaled to the project scope and location. ILFI uses the metaphor of a flower, to assert that construction should operate much like all independent, living organism. Of course nothing he can hope to achieve could be exclusively credited to him. But he hopes that through proper design and communication, he could change how people think and live, so that they can pass on values and a better world to future generations.
ISSN:0162-8178