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LED lighting technology provides unique advantages, but it’s also important to understand its limitations for optimized application.
From an orchid-shaped visitor center to California’s largest public works project, each of these projects benefited from IMP technology.
Charter schools are growing like Topsy. But don’t jump on board unless you know what you’re getting into.
The Building Team for Berkeley, Calif.’s new 9,500-sf West Branch library aims to achieve net-zero—and possibly net-positive—energy performance...
At Enermodal Engineering, there’s only one kind of building—a sustainable one.
We submit our eighth White Paper on Sustainability in the hope that it will inspire architects, engineers, contractors, building owners,...
In this White Paper, we provide concrete ways in which AEC professionals can have a positive role in addressing climate change.
Hotel boom signals good news for greener lodging facilities
Public sector remains a bastion of sustainability
Green medical facilities extend beyond hospital walls
Sustainably designed apartments are apples of developers’ eyes
More and more colleges and universities see sustainainably designed buildings as a given
High-performance schools put ‘sustainability’ in the lesson plan
Enter the new era of ‘disclosure and transparency’
What does a green building look like? How would you know one if you saw one? Maybe a trivial question to some, but of great interest to architects...
First, the good news: Nearly two-thirds of executives at real estate companies and corporations (64%) said it is “extremely likely” or “very...
After installing 20 high-speed, energy-efficient hand dryers in restrooms throughout the USDA headquarters; the USDA reports seeing an immediate...
The Top 10 AEC Firms in Green Buildings and LEED Accredited Staff.
The effort is aimed at determining if decreasing levels of water flow––caused by increasingly efficient plumbing fixtures––are sufficient to...
Retrofitting our existing commercial buildings is one of the key steps to overcoming the economic and environmental challenges we face.