Articles Tagged with ''green buildings''

The first mass-timber office building for Google and for the city of Sunnyvale, Calif., is designed for energy efficiency and to support occupants’ comfort and wellbeing.

DOE has rescinded the federal zero-emissions building definition, ending its support and leaving states, cities, and owners without a consistent benchmark for emerging energy and carbon standards. 

Resilience work at developing New York City manufacturing and tech hub is set to restore infrastructure damaged by 2012 Hurricane Sandy and other storms

Sublime Systems is planning a $150M sustainable cement plant in Holyoke, Mass., funded in part by a U.S. Energy Dept. and Internal Revenue Service tax credit of $46M for use of renewable power.

It took serious coordination and a bit of quick thinking to turn a 95-year-old landmark Toronto hotel into a sustainability showcase while it was fully occupied, but the team on the Fairmont Royal York made it happen.

The multifunctional library enhances academic resources by serving as a hub for studying, research and community engagement.

Green building groups note barriers to more sustainability upgrades that have limited widespread adoption by owners of most global building stock.

Designing and building the first mass timber commercial office building in the Philadelphia metropolitan area required intense coordination to combine mass timber with multiple structural systems.

Now in the third $58-million phase of the Glass City project, Metroparks Toledo is constructing a multiuse trail on both sides of the Maumee River.