Town Lake Center

From Austin Energy Green Building - Learn how to build, remodel, or buy green homes that improve energy and water efficiency, increase comfort, and reduce maintenance. The workshop is designed to provide a choice of topics based on your green building needs. Sessions are paired…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Learn how to build, remodel, or buy green homes that improve energy and water efficiency, increase comfort, and reduce maintenance. The workshop is designed to provide a choice of topics based on your green building needs. Sessions are paired…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Learn how to build, remodel, or buy green homes that improve energy and water efficiency, increase comfort, and reduce maintenance. The workshop is designed to provide a choice of topics based on your green building needs. Sessions are paired…

The third of five Code Talks from the city's CodeNEXT initiative is about Affordability. Come learn about how the draft code aims to enable a more inclusive and affordable Austin through more diverse housing choices, updated affordability incentives, flexible live/work spaces, and connected communities. The…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Austin's rapidly growing population means more cars on the road making transportation a key component of a livable city. This seminar addresses how smart cities provide affordable and sustainable mobility. Austin is leading the way by expanding transportation options, installing an electric vehicle…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Austin has a goal of Zero Waste by 2040. City departments are collaborating on initiatives to help the community reach this goal of keeping at least 90 percent of discarded materials out of the landfill. This seminar will outline how green building…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Is there a blueprint for a flexible building? This seminar explores designing for a building's evolution. Using adaptability to drive the design of buildings provides for changes in budgets, use, operations, codes, technology and ownership over time. Speakers will…

From Austin Energy Green Building - As Austin becomes increasingly urbanized, native landscapes are replaced with impervious surfaces that prevent rainwater from soaking into the ground. Raingardens provide an attractive addition to landscapes while helping to conserve water and protect water quality. This seminar will…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Urban gardens create great benefits for our community whether they're in your own backyard or the neighborhood. This seminar explores the value of trees to environmental quality and wildlife as well as provides an overview of Austin's community garden…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Floods, fire and drought are the most common and costly natural disasters in the United States. Texas leads the nation in severe weather and flooding events. This seminar will explore how the City of Austin addresses resiliency at the community scale and…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Learn how to build, remodel or buy green homes that improve energy and water efficiency, increase comfort, and reduce maintenance. The workshop is designed to provide a choice of topics based on your green building needs. Sessions are paired…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Current development practices and regulations maximize use of land for buildings and related infrastructure, often at the expense of wildlife. In recent years there has been renewed interest in fostering wildlife diversity in the urban and suburban setting. This seminar…

From Austin Energy Green Building - The design of buildings, neighborhoods and cities offers many opportunities to benefit human health. This seminar will explore design features that foster healthy communities. Speakers will discuss Austin's Mueller neighborhood, and the impact of walkable community design on residents'…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Sustainability goes beyond high performance buildings - it's about creating buildings and systems that nurture and support the well-being of the people that inhabit them. In order to achieve these goals, developers and designers seek to understand and respect…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Austin's rapid growth adds more cars on the road every day. Internal combustion vehicles account for over 30 percent of emissions in the greater Austin area. New initiatives to reduce congestion and emissions are transforming transportation through innovation, safety…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Thoughtful landscape design goes beyond designing for beauty. Small site landscapes and open space regional designs can create multi-functional green spaces that restore ecosystems, protect natural resources and increase community resiliency in the face of droughts, floods and other…

From Austin Energy Green Building - What is biophilic design? It celebrates the natural environment by intentionally incorporating elements from nature into the built environment. Designers and medical professionals have found that biophilic buildings create spaces in which people are happier, healthier and more productive.…

From Austin Energy Green Building - Rapid development and population growth in Austin and the surrounding region highlight the lack of plentiful public transportation options serving the area. This seminar will take a closer look at two new plans to offer expanded transportation options, especially…

Hosted by Austin Energy Green Building - Learn how to build, remodel or buy green homes that improve energy and water efficiency, increase comfort, and reduce maintenance. The workshop is designed to provide a choice of topics based on your green building needs. Sessions are…

Hosted by Austin Energy Green Building - Learn how to build, remodel or buy green homes that improve energy and water efficiency, increase comfort, and reduce maintenance. The workshop is designed to provide a choice of topics based on your green building needs. Sessions are…

Hosted by Austin Energy Green Building - Sustainable development improves livability and viability within communities at every scale, for everyone. This seminar focuses on current planning, development and housing initiatives that help create an equitable and sustainable future for our entire city. Speakers will explore…