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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. 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Google's Proposal for North Bayshore_ by [Victor Luckerson](https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Feb 27, 2015 7:53 PM UTC  This rendering shows a restored natural habitat around Permanente Creek, near the proposed Landings project. You can’t tell, but a consolidated parking structure is hidden below this landscaped garden. By consolidating parking, traffic congestion is reduced in the area, making it safer and more attractive for people to walk and bike. This rendering shows a restored natural habitat around Permanente Creek, near the proposed Landings project. You can’t tell, but a consolidated parking structure is hidden below this landscaped garden. By consolidating parking, traffic congestion is reduced in the area, making it safer and more attractive for people to walk and bike. dbox/Google by [Victor Luckerson](https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Feb 27, 2015 7:53 PM UTC Google has unveiled its ambitious new plans for a sprawling, modern Googleplex. The new facility, being developed by architect Bjarke Ingels, features a series of glass, canopies the size of city blocks, new biking and walking paths and an emphasis on green space. Renowned designer Thomas Heatherwick is also involved in the project. Google hopes to complete the first stage of development by 2020, but the company will first have to [win approval](http://time.com/3721934/google-new-headquarters/) from Mountain View’s city council amid growing concern over Google’s control over the development of the community.  This rendering shows a restored natural habitat around Permanente Creek, near the proposed Landings project. You can’t tell, but a consolidated parking structure is hidden below this landscaped garden. By consolidating parking, traffic congestion is reduced in the area, making it safer and more attractive for people to walk and bike. dbox/Google  This rendering shows the entry lobby of the proposed Landings building. Consolidated parking sits below the building, helping us reach our goal of Net-Zero parking. Once at Landings, visitors can easily connect to the rest of campus through one of several walking and biking paths. dbox/Google  This rendering shows the west side of the proposed Shoreline building. The canopies along Shoreline Boulevard open onto a public plaza with retail spaces. Along the street, buildings are 2 or 3 stories, with taller areas toward the center of the structures. dbox/Google  This bird’s eye view shows Google’s proposed new campus and its surroundings. dbox/Google  In this rendering, Huff Avenue is transformed into a soft grid for pedestrians and bikes. The building’s translucent canopy lifts up to allow the public Green Loop to go through the center of the building, with cafes and local shops on the lower levels. dbox/Google  Mountain View’s Precise Plan encourages the creation of a diverse network of public and private open spaces such as plazas, parks and trails. This rendering shows the Green Loop, a circuit for bikes and pedestrians that weaves through urban and natural areas. A solar canopy produces energy and also protects bicyclists from the rain. dbox/Google  This rendering shows the inside of the proposed Charleston South building looking west. Within the canopy, building segments operate like furniture—light, tactile and reconfigurable. These segments form small villages where employees can work or relax. The Green Loop goes through the building. The rim of the canopy provides structure as well as biking and walking paths. dbox/Google  This rendering shows the west side of the proposed Huff project. At ground level, the environment is newly restored. Employees will be drawn from offices to the outdoors, to work alongside waterways and under trees. Mountain View residents can walk or ride along green corridors, eat at cafes, shop, play in parks, or work in the public community gardens. dbox/Google  This rendering shows the northwest corner of the proposed Charleston South building. Large, translucent enclosures blur the boundaries between inside and out. These canopies regulate climate, pollution, and sound, while freeing spaces from traditional architectural limitations like walls, windows and roofs. Cafes and local shops on the lower levels open into interior open walkways under the canopy. dbox/Google  This rendering shows the northern half of the proposed Landings project. In place of parking lots and other underutilized sites, we will establish revitalized native ecosystems, including re-oaking and wetlands. dbox/Google ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Silicon Valley has been the cradle of a sort of series of innovations that, over the last decades, have propelled, technology and world economy. But all of the resources, all of the intelligence, has been invested into the immaterial, the digital realm, the internet. It was just fascinating to be seeing the physical reality of a valley that has changed the world. And that valley. Actually, itself hasn't changed. Tech really hasn't adopted a particular language for buildings. I mean, we just found old buildings we moved into them, and that, and we made due the best we could. We have an opportunity to build new buildings, which is nothing unique. Which people do everyday, all over the world. But what we've tried to do is take a step back and say how do buildings work with nature? You know, what will transit look like in the future? Not what is transit today? We're really making sure that we make spaces very open and accessible, so it's just not for Googlers, but it's for anybody who lives in the area to come by. And then the last piece, which is really Google at its heart. And anything we do, trying to lead the project, getting something back to the world that they didn't have before we started. [ MUSIC ] We scour the world looking for a special architect. We could really do something different. We really listened and created stuff from the ground up and we really got down to what we believed were the two best- in- class. [ LAUGH ] My name is Bjarke Ingels. I'm an architect and the found of Bjarke Ingles Group, or simply BIG. The BIG studios, they're ambitious. They do a lot of very community- focused projects and that was pretty compelling to us. Good, actually. Good reaction by the way. My name is Thomas Heatherwick. I'm the found of Heatherwick Studio [ MUSIC ] Thomas on the other hand has this attention to human scale and beauty that I haven't seen in anyone before. And you bring those two people together somebody who really thinks about function and form and you couple that with beauty and you just have this team that that's pretty amazing. Stuff. When we, met each other in Mountain View, we thought that it would be, interesting to work with each other and Google to maybe come up with something that would be much more creative than anything we could've come up with ourselves. [ MUSIC ] What is the best possible environment we can make to invent, engineer, and most importantly make ideas happen and go out into the world? [ MUSIC ] It's cool. It's cool. When you visit the Google campus, there's lots of trees. But there's this constant major undermining of that by the. The road system and the infrastructure required for all of those cars, and it just feels like trees are like street furniture. And everything has turned into parking lots. We are trying to sort of reverse this, this process, and really starting to recreate. Some of the natural, qualities that have been there, in the first place. Really transform the sea of packing that you find today, into sort of natural landscape. Where you will find an abundance of green, both outside, but also inside. [ UNKNOWN ] greenhouse's. That's enclosed and protect pieces of nature. Next to ecologically sensitive areas we're able to pull back buildings and create wildlife habitat. We're able to create areas where we're restoring waterways that bring water out to the bay. [ MUSIC ] It's interesting to try and look at how you can really augment or turn the dial up more on, on that nature. At the same time as looking to really protect the, the land use. [ MUSIC ] Google's presence in Mountain View is, is simply so strong that it can't be the fortress, that shut away nature, that shut away the, the neighbors. It really needs to become a neighborhood in Mountain View. [ MUSIC ] A motivator for the work we're doing now is to be generous. You can provide facilities that can be shared with people who don't work for an organization and keep an organization's feet on the ground. The buildings themselves allow both the public, as well as employees, to move through them. We wanted to make sure that we created communities where bikes and pedestrians felt like they didn't have to worry about cars zipping by at 70 miles an hour. Part of our work is to try to find ways to make places that you would go and. Have a conversation and go for a walk with great pleasure and choose in a weekend to be. So in that sense, our idea for the Google campus is really to give it the diversity, the liveliness, that you find in an urban neighborhood so that a lot of the traditional distinctions. And an urban setting or an office environment, will have evaporated or at least been blurred significantly. How will we work 5 years from now? How will we work 15 or 20 years from now? We don't know what it's gonna be, but we know that it just needs to be this incredibly flexible space for it to work. In nature, things aren't overprogrammed or overprescribed. And in a way, if our cities or our work environments could have more of this flexibility or openness for interpretation, they would become more stimulating and more creative environments to live and, and work in. In a traditional building, reconfiguring from office space to automotive to biotech would take months and years. And you would knock those buildings down, and then five or ten years later, you would do it again. The desire really is to try to create pieces of environment you can work in, in multiple ways. Suddenly, within this architecture of the building, it becomes almost like giant pieces of furniture that can be connected in different ways. It's almost like the Lincoln Logs when we were kids, you can just pile them up and assemble them differently with basically, no new materials. It's a sort of, structure of looking at a way, at the. Historic city model of making streets. And then this is not the historic model of making environments that bring together and protect those streets. Instead of having buildings as these like boxes with walls and floors. Dissolve the building into a single ultra- light membrane. [ MUSIC ] Creating in effect a piece of glass fabric, draping it across tent poles, and we're blurring the outside world and the inside world. We're really thinking about how do we create buildings that draw less energy. How do we create buildings that use less water than a less traditional building? And all of this science and. Know how is going into this project. We will keep developing, we'll keep researching, in terms on materials or technologies. The oxygen will evolve as as times evolve. There are, there are ways that we can try and make space that isn't just for the next five or ten year. But for many decades to come. Between like these three different, minds, or three different companies working together, I think we have really arrived. That's something that I'm dead certain we wouldn't have arrived at if any one of us were like, working in, in isolation. We have a duty to reflect. In the physical environment, the valley's that have been manifested, and the innovations that have come out of this part of California. A humanistic spirit is something that it feels really important to body in what we build. And so that's shared between all of us. Us and is exciting and driving us and will be in its way revolutionary. 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