Community

Our strength is in our community of partners and collaborators. Just by participating, all users add value to our mission to create positive impact. User ideas, feedback and activity helps to develop GIGA tools and services, keeping active users at the source of positive impact news and developments. Get involved. Become an expert and share your ideas.

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Blogs

Ideas inspire action. GIGA blog features ideas worth sharing. Written by industry professionals, GIGA blog features the voice of design professionals to share unique perspectives...

ADD a Material

circle.png Fact: green design starts with green materials. There are heaps of green materials in the market today but designers don't have time to find all of them. We solve this problem by allowing users to add, share, and coll...

Sustainable business

business-01.jpg Sustainable businesses seem to be everywhere. What makes them so isn't always apparent. Below is a graphical look at the range of sustainable businesses. ...

GIGA v.3.1.7, New Features

incremental-01.jpeg We just launched our most recent round of updates. Version 3.1.7 includes these new features: Projects. Find completed projects, construction projects, and projects on the boards to inspire your next design. Save pr...

Forum

GIGA's community can participate in GIGA's forum to share ideas to inspire collaboration and solutions. Community members also can post questions to get support from industry experts and the entire GIGA Community.

Expo Wetland

I was recently at the wetland park on the Expo site (Pudong side), and was pleasantly surprised. Does anyone know who did the design and implementation? ...

Cradle to Cradle

For those of you familiar with the book, Cradle to Cradle, it is availalbe in Chinese. The Chinese name is: 从摇篮到摇篮 and can be found on most on-line Chinese book stores. 大家一直在谈论的"Cradle to Cradle"有...

Events

Featuring China-based solutions, GIGA events celebrate the achievements of our Community while encouraging discussion and debate to set the bar for future innovation.

GIGAcrit 3: Learning from the traditional

crit_3.png Dennis Zhang is one of the fathers of green architecture in Shanghai and China. Amongst many other projects, he is the architect of the SRIBS research centers, the first of which was completed in 2004. He is a...

ARCHITECT@WORK

logo_aw_china_shanghai2.jpg INTRO: GIGA is teaming up with the European all-in-one event designed exclusively for architects and designers with a focus on innovation... now coming to the thriving city of Shanghai. WHAT: ARCHITE...

GIGA News

Our vision is bold, GIGA News keeps you up to date with our progress. Stay plugged in and be the first to know about new tools, solutions, and opportunities to collaborate with us.

GIGA's IT is growing. Are you a talented RoR Developer?

256px_-_104.png Ruby on Rails Senior Developer Job Description The Sr. Lead Developer will serve as a key member of the management team to help GIGA to turn ideas into efficient and scalable web solutions. The follow...

GIGA Projects Database now LIVE

giga_projects.png The final puzzle piece is finished. We are proud to launch our much anticipated Projects database. For the first time, you can see how green materials come together into real built projects. You no longer need to se...

The 300 Club

paint_brush_can_02.jpg We've done it again. We eclipsed our own expectations, reaching 300 GIGA Ranked materials before the end of 2011. Now, you can find a range of materials from the most commonly sought material categories. Ho...