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A new K-12 school in Washington, D.C., is the first school in the world to achieve both LEED for Schools Platinum and WELL Platinum, according to its architect, Perkins Eastman. The John Lewis Elementary School is also the first school in the District of Columbia designed to achieve net-zero energy (NZE).
The River Grove Elementary School in Oregon was designed for net-zero carbon and resiliency to seismic events, storms, and wildfire. The roughly 82,000-sf school in a Portland suburb will feature a microgrid—a small-scale power grid that operates independently from the area’s electric grid.
BD+C editors are now accepting submissions for the annual 75 Top Building Products awards. The winners will be featured in the November/December 2024 issue of Building Design+Construction.
The International Code Council stripped out provisions from the 2024 update to the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) that would have included beefed up circuitry for hooking up electric appliances and car chargers.
If U.S. healthcare were a country, it would rank 13th in GHG emissions.
Kirksey is the first Houston-based firm with designation and role as high-quality LEED administrator
The firm will partner with the International Finance Corporation to promote sustainable building in emerging markets like India and China.
CallisonRTKL’s sustainable design expert Pablo La Roche shares Xylem, the latest innovation on creating thermal comfort.
One of the city's richest residents, John Hantz, is buying hundreds of acres of vacant property, tearing down dilapidated structures, and planting trees in the space.
The author and former president of the Green Building Initiative is critical of current green building rating systems, including the LEED rating program.
The education building generated 83% more energy than it consumed over the last year en route to earning Living Building Challenge (LBC) certification.
BREEAM USA, an offshoot of a program already in place in Europe, aims to ease the point of entry.
The newly renovated 25,000-sf space achieved gold-level status.
