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Today, we can design airports that are climate resilient, durable, long-lasting, and healthy for occupants—we can design airports using Passive House standards.
The Biden Administration recently released “Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy by 2050: A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector,” a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from buildings by 65% by 2035 and 90% by 2050.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has opened the first public comment period for the first draft of LEED v5. The new version of the LEED green building rating system will drive deep decarbonization, quality of life improvements, and ecological conservation and restoration, USGBC says.
Boston has placed significant aspects of its plan to protect the city from rising sea levels on the actions of private developers. Amid a post-Covid commercial development slump, though, efforts to build protective infrastructure have stalled.
The Operations Center consolidates activities that previously were being handled at 25 locations.
Carlo Ratti Associati designed the garden with an innovative net-zero energy climate control system.
Over 100 wellness features are incorporated into CBRE’s Vancouver office.
The sustainable structure will be a mixed-use development with a hotel, apartments, and office space.
Kengo Kuma is designing the hotel, which will feature a large garden and a plant-covered façade.
The project’s net-zero goals led to the development of a new curtain wall system.
The hotel will feature a cold bath and be in a good location for viewing the northern lights.
The SteelStacks Arts and Cultural Campus in Bethlehem, Pa., receives the gold medal and $50,000.
Since its development in the 1990s, the LEED rating system has been applied to over 19.1 billion total commercial square feet.
Building efficiency essential to tempering global climate change.