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The next version of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system will expand water-savings targets to appliances, cooling towers,...
Six years after a tornado virtually wiped out the town, Greensburg, Kan., is the world's leading community in LEED-certified buildings per capita...
The Green Building Advisory Committee established by the General Services Administration, officially recommended to GSA that the LEED green...
DLR Group and the Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State University have collaborated on a research project to evaluate the effect...
North Carolina lawmakers have introduced state legislation that would restrict the use of national green building rating programs, including LEED...
Analysis of daylighting control systems in 20 office and public spaces shows that while the automatic daylighting harvesting schemes are helping...
A new book from leading sustainability, green building author and expert Jerry Yudelson challenges assumptions about the value of sustainable...
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanophotonic material that not only reflects sunlight, but actually beams the thermal energy...
A new guidance manual, LEED for Neighborhood Development and Historic Preservation, outlines strategies geared towards helping building...
Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Chicago top EPA's list of the U.S. cities with the greatest number of Energy Star certified buildings in 2012...
Walgreens announced plans last week to build one of the nation's first net-zero retail stores. The Evanston, Ill., location will utilize solar...
Yudelson, a Contributing Editor to Building Design+Construction, says, “It looks like a good year ahead for the green building industry. Based on...
Featuring the latest technologies, the three-story, academic facility includes academic spaces and teaching laboratories, student services, a book...
Partnership will help further USGBC’s mission by advancing green building education
Focus is on healthy building materials to promote indoor environmental quality and human health
7,000 members of the green building industry convene for opening plenary headlined by "Morning Joe" co-hosts Mika Brzezinksi and Joe Scarborough...
Respondents indicated a widespread commitment to sustainable practices
LEED v4 drafts and the public comment tool are now available on the newly re-launched, re-envisioned...
The “Lakeside Idea” is about bridging a brownfield industrial past to a green lifestyle future, from steel mill to innovation mill.
Seeking LEED Silver certification, the project will begin in August and is slated for completion in December 2014.
