On Thursday, March 31, over 275 industry leaders and professionals gathered at Grace Farms in New Canaan, Connecticut for the inaugural “Design for Freedom Summit,” part of a multi-pronged effort to address the crisis of forced labor within the architectural, engineering, and construction industries.
The focal point of the non-profit institute's bucolic, 80-acre campus is the SANAA-designed “River” building, which undulates across the gentle slopes of the surrounding landscape. In 2019, four years after the building’s opening, the Grace Farms Foundation asked the building’s general contractor, Sciame Construction, to undertake an experiment in supply-chain deep diving by tracing the origin of the materials used to fabricate the distinctive 60,000 square-foot roof.
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