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May 24,2013

NBBJ has released renderings of a revised plan for Amazon's new three-block headquarters in Seattle. The...

Sky City, Changsha. Rendering courtesy of Broad Sustainable Building
May 23,2013

Broad Sustainable Building has completed a long and arduous approval process, and is starting excavation and construction on Sky City in June,...

May 17,2013

The next version of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system will expand water-savings targets to appliances, cooling towers,...

Eric Oliver, EMO Energy Solutions
May 16,2013

Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers (lilker.com), a multidisciplinary MEP engineering firm with offices in Manhattan and Long...

May 14,2013

US-based wind energy company SheerWind just unveiled the ...

May 09,2013

Six years after a tornado virtually wiped out the town, Greensburg, Kan., is the world's leading community in LEED-certified buildings per capita...

May 07,2013

Renovations to the former Nashville Bridge Company building were recently completed, including a newly-built modern wing. The facility has been re...

May 03,2013

The Green Building Advisory Committee established by the General Services Administration, officially recommended to GSA that the LEED green...

Courtesy BIG
April 26,2013

Danish architecture firm, BIG - led by Bjarke Ingels – has been announced...

Courtesy City of Cupertino
April 26,2013

Apple will delay the construction of a secondary research and development building on its "spaceship" campus in an attempt to drive down the cost...

April 25,2013

DLR Group and the Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State University have collaborated on a research project to evaluate the effect...

Charles David Keeling Apartments, La Jolla, Calif., by KieranTimberlake. Photo:
April 22,2013

The AIA's Committee on the Environment selected its top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and...

April 15,2013

Bertschi School, an independent elementary school in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of...

April 15,2013

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced that Dan Winters recently joined the organization as Senior Research Fellow for Business...

Image © Mark Herboth courtesy NCSU
April 05,2013

The new Hunt Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, incorporates advanced building...

April 05,2013

Whole Foods and partner Gotham Greens will create a 20,000-sf greenhouse atop one of the retailer's Brooklyn supermarkets. Expected to open this...

Courtesy Foster + Partners
April 05,2013

Campus 2, Apple Inc.'s proposed ring-shaped office facility in Cupertino, Calif., could cost $5 billion to build, according to...

April 02,2013

A new book from leading sustainability, green building author and expert Jerry Yudelson challenges assumptions about the value of sustainable...

March 29,2013

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanophotonic material that not only reflects sunlight, but actually beams the thermal energy...

March 22,2013

The DOE'S Building Technologies Office this morning put out a call to the AEC industry for expert reviewers for its new energy-efficiency...