Texas Developers Can Earn Tax Credits by Building GreenNBC Washington, DC - 7 hours agoThe Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club joined national low income green building advocate Global Green USA as well as Austin nonprofit affordable hou...
You may recall One Jackson Square , a 36-unit, 11-story condominium project under construction in the West Village that will seek an unspecified level of LEED certification from USGBC. The project, co-developed by Hines and RFR, was designed by KPF pri...
An interesting battle is brewing on Long Island over the place of modern green architecture on Main Street. Over 500 people have signed a petition to protest what would be an extremely modern, green, and LEED-certified office building in East Hampton. ...
The Man from Greensboro and His Super Green HotelHuffington Post, NY - 44 minutes agoTo encourage the construction of energy efficient and environmentally sustainable buildings, the US Green Building Council has devised the Leadership in...
AIG Risk Management Introduces AIGRMGreen Product Line to Address …WELT ONLINE, Germany - 49 minutes ago… for crisis management consultant costs resulting from management of a reputational crisis when a green building experi...
Introduction to Green Building E-ClassdBusinessNews Portland (press release), OR - 2 hours agoTree Hugger Consulting is offering an E-Class called “Introduction to Green Building.” It is an 18 minute video class that provides a brief ...
Arab Emirates to introduce green building regsGreen Building Press, UK - 3 hours ago"All the buildings will meet international standards and 'green' building specifications," said Al Mualla. "Sharjah Municipality ha...
San Francisco's Strict Green Building CodeCities Go Green, WA - 4 hours agoNext year, all new buildings and renovation projects in San Francisco will be held to environmental regulation under an encompassing green building rating R...
Skanska USA Building's Orlando projects win 'green' awardOrlando Sentinel, FL - 4 hours agoThe US Green Building Council's Central Florida chapter this week has selected Skanska USA Building Inc. as its Business of the Yea...
CNET News ‘Green’ Nightclub Trend Comes to New YorkNew York Times, United States - 7 hours agoThe club, which is seeking LEED certification by the Green Building Council, offers an excellent glimpse into the practical considerations t...
Environmental ingenuity springs from the ashesAspen Daily News, CO - 9 hours agoIn addition to adding to the company’s bed-base inventory, the project is a plus for SkiCo as the company embraces its green-building initiative. …Hol...
Fort Worth, Texas Hotel Developer Attains Highly Regarded Green …1888 Press Release (press release), TX - 17 hours agoAs a member of the US Green Building Council, Ridgeline Hospitality has always been concerned with the impact of t...
Building in New Louisville exceeds the Green standardWHAS 11.com (subscription), KY - 17 hours agoFilm producer Gill Holland and his wife Augusta own the green building at 732 East Market Street, and made it a mission two years ago to tak...
Students are not always known for their green-mindedness. Facing habitual late nights and juggling multiple deadlines, it can be hard balance an eco lifestyle with a studious one. Fortunately, Harvard is joining the ranks of colleges that are trying t...
San Francisco residents looking to deck their halls with green holiday decor will be excited to hear that for a limited time the SF Environment Department is teaming up with Friends of the Urban Forest to offer living Christmas trees that will be repl...
Drywall is the number three producer of greenhouse gasses among building materials, trailing just behind cement and steel. Its production generates 200 million tons of carbon dioxide gas, a host of gypsum mines, and immense amounts of energy are requi...
Bruce Munro’s gorgeous fiber optic ‘Field of Light‘ installation is inspired by the beautiful displays of flowers that burst forth from Australia’s desert landscape. The UK based lighting designer conceived of the installation ...
There is perhaps no better wardrobe investment for Winter 2008, than a super stylish pair of eco chic boots. Shoes and accessories should carry over from year-to-year, so it really pays to do your homework when selecting covet-able footwear that will ...
There is something idyllic and old-worldish about Isobel Davies‘ collection of knitwear. Which seems fitting considering its beginnings. Several years ago, Davies discovered two harsh realities in the world of sheep: first, that sheep in Britain...
As I rode on Amtrak back to New York from Boston, I was struck by just how much fun I had over the past few days at Greenbuild. I met so many of you in person, and I can’t express in words just how much of a thrill it was to finally put a face on the...
I had a terrific time at Greenbuild over the past few days up in Boston. I’ll have a much more detailed wrap of the week’s events later on today. In the meantime, thanks to everyone who came out to our panel on the intersection of blogging ...
Developers Jonathan Rose of the Rose Companies and Gerard Lettire closed a couple of weeks ago on financing for the Tapestry, a 184-unit, affordable housing project 245 East 124th Street (at Second Avenue) in Harlem. The 12-story rental development wil...
Even before this fall’s meltdown on Wall Street and the expected slowdown in new construction, many commentators were speculating that green retrofits would be the next frontier for the sustainable building market. Indeed, we’ve already see...
Back in July, we called Richard Rogers’ design for a proposed LEED for Core and Shell ("LEED-CS") Gold office tower above the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue the "most ambitious" of the three concepts...
The Mary M. Hooker Environmental Studies Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut opened back in 1952 and provides practical environmental education for K-8 students. The school is about to undergo a two-year renovation that will seek a LEED Gold rating ...
Hearst Tower wins 2008 International Highrise Award ; Norman Foster accepts 50,000 Euro prize in Frankfurt In addition to LEED Gold ratings, LMDC continues to explore ways to green World Trade Center redevelopment Energy savings at green but non-LEED-...
Buffalo State College’s Burchfield Penney Art Center (”BPAC“) is touting itself as New York State’s first green art museum. The $33 million project- which was designed by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects- is aiming for ...
Fresh off of its efforts to create a LEED for Commercial Interiors Platinum space for the National Audobon Society at 225 Varick Street, mechanical and electrical engineers WSP Flack Kurtz are pursuing a LEED-CI Gold rating for the firm’s new ...
Even in the dicey economy, construction financing for the Nzinga Townhomes in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn is moving forward and developer Yolande Nicholson hopes to break ground on the modular green project early in 2009. Designed by Gar...
The private K-8 Willow School in Gladstone, New Jersey has already received a LEED Gold rating from USGBC for its main building, which was completed back in 2003. At the time, the Willow School was the first LEED-rated private school in the country and...
Manhattan-based GreenbergFarrow Architects recently completed the 346,000-square-foot IKEA in Red Hook, Brooklyn; it’s the tenth such store that the firm has designed. Lost in the hoopla surrounding the Swedish giant’s first New York City r...
Designed by Manhattan-based Magnusson Architecture and Planning , Melrose Commons is one of only six projects in the state of New York that is participating in USGBC’s LEED for Neighborhood Development ("LEED-ND") Pilot Program. The 200...
If there has been one branch of the real estate industry where green building has been relatively unremarked upon, it’s the industrial sector. Mostly functional structures where the bells and whistles of green design that capture media attention ...
Blu Homes is a relative newcomer to the prefab design world. That being said, they are in the midst of two projects that should be completed by Spring 2009. One is in Blue River, Colorado and the other is in Salt Lake City, Utah. Blu Homes focuses on ...
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Developers Jonathan Rose of the Rose Companies and Gerard Lettire closed a couple of weeks ago on financing for the Tapestry, a 184-unit, affordable housing project 245 East 124th Street (at Second Avenue) in Harlem. The 12-story rental development wil...
Even before this fall’s meltdown on Wall Street and the expected slowdown in new construction, many commentators were speculating that green retrofits would be the next frontier for the sustainable building market. Indeed, we’ve already see...
Back in July, we called Richard Rogers’ design for a proposed LEED for Core and Shell ("LEED-CS") Gold office tower above the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue the "most ambitious" of the three concepts...
The Mary M. Hooker Environmental Studies Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut opened back in 1952 and provides practical environmental education for K-8 students. The school is about to undergo a two-year renovation that will seek a LEED Gold rating ...
Hearst Tower wins 2008 International Highrise Award ; Norman Foster accepts 50,000 Euro prize in Frankfurt In addition to LEED Gold ratings, LMDC continues to explore ways to green World Trade Center redevelopment Energy savings at green but non-LEED-...
Buffalo State College’s Burchfield Penney Art Center (”BPAC“) is touting itself as New York State’s first green art museum. The $33 million project- which was designed by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects- is aiming for ...
Fresh off of its efforts to create a LEED for Commercial Interiors Platinum space for the National Audobon Society at 225 Varick Street, mechanical and electrical engineers WSP Flack Kurtz are pursuing a LEED-CI Gold rating for the firm’s new ...
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