Articles Tagged with ''sustainable construction''

Utility Southern Co.’s costly effort to produce clean energy from coal met a major milestone on Oct. 12, when its Kemper County, Miss., integrated gasification combined-cycle plant produced the first kilowatt of electricity with synthetic fuel made from local lignite.

The upgrades program is projected to save $392,000 in annual utility and operational costs.

As San Diego County’s first zero-net-energy (ZNE) building, the Alpine Library is an open book on sustainability.

Development will become the first campus of ‘living buildings’ within a national park.

Jason F. McLennan has left an “incredible legacy of brilliant ideas and visions for our future,” says Amanda Sturgeon, the new CEO of the International Living Future Institute, which administers the sustainable-building certification program called the Living Building Challenge.

Jason F. McLennan advances the world’s most audacious environmental standards and leads mission to provide super-sustainable buildings to the needy.