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St. Joseph Patient Care Center, Orange, Calif. Photo: Tom Kessler
May 17,2013

Low-emissivity glasses are critical to making today’s buildings brighter, more energy-efficient, and more sustainable. Here are five tips to help...

April 08,2013

Oldcastle® Architectural has acquired Expocrete Concrete Products Ltd., giving North America’s largest producer of concrete masonry and hardscape...

April 08,2013

Analysis of daylighting control systems in 20 office and public spaces shows that while the automatic daylighting harvesting schemes are helping...

Proposed ASHRAE standard revisions would boost requirement for automatic lightin
February 26,2013

Proposed changes to the ASHRAE/IES energy standard would require automatic lighting controls in more space types and shorten the times before...

The fifth annual SYLVANIA Socket Survey from OSRAM SYLVANIA
February 25,2013

The fifth annual SYLVANIA Socket Survey from OSRAM SYLVANIA finds that consumers are adjusting to new...

The Office Concept’s build-out included approximately 15,000-sf of office and 15
April 30,2012

The project is seeking LEED ID Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

The $300 million project is part of a six-phased inpatient facility construction
April 20,2012

The new hospital’s architectural design combines traditional Santa Barbara Spanish colonial architecture with 21st century medical conveniences...

The RB 500 Roller Shade accommodates large or inclined windows and are designed
March 29,2012

Design experts in the iF jury recognized the engineering invested in the RB 500 Roller Shade, including a metal clutch with a patented...

March 01,2012

Aragon constructed the space in partnership with Milo Kleinberg Design Associates, (MKDA) and the Craven Corp. as the owner’s representative...

HDR was selected to design Humber River’s new 1.7-million-sf hospital in Toronto
January 04,2012

Humber River  is the first hospital in North America to fully integrate and automate all of its processes; everything is done digitally.

January 03,2012

Harley Ellis Devereaux will relocate the employees in its current Berkeley, Calif., office to the new Oakland office location effective January 3...

Lutron LEED Gold Washington DC
December 13,2011

LEED certification of the Lutron facility was based on a number of green design and construction features that positively impact the project...

Centre for Interactive Research LEED Platinum CIRS
November 18,2011

Designed to exceed LEED Platinum, the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) is one of the most innovative and high performance...

October 05,2011

Turnkey systems create an aesthetic architectural power plant. 

March 29,2011

Chicago’s iconic Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) is set to become a massive solar electric plant with the installation of a pilot...

October 06,2010

A former West Philadelphia supermarket is moving up the food chain, transitioning from grocery store to the Center for Culinary Enterprise, a...

September 21,2010
A new report from Pike Research forecasts that by 2020, nearly half the green building certifications will be for existing buildings—accounting for...
August 11,2010
New federal data released recently shows sharp increases in the prices of key construction materials like diesel, copper and brass mill shapes likely...
August 11,2010
YKK AP America, the leader in manufacturing high quality architectural products, today announced enerGfacade™, its new family of energy-efficient...