A past COTE Top Ten Green Project outperforms expectations and earns more recognition.
Designed by Ross Barney Architects, a Midwest educational facility serves as a living laboratory for high-performance building techniques.
Brooks + Scarpa sets a new standard for the home office with a light-filled, comfortable live–work space.
This touchless all-in-one faucet, soap dispenser, and dual-sided hand dryer helps keep commercial bathrooms orderly.
Less is more in this paired down version of a classic Emeco chair.
KMD Architects works with city officials to create a world-class sustainable building that fits in with its classical surroundings.
Lake|Flato Architects integrates private development and public spaces to create a vibrant urban destination.
A 1933 experiment in sustainable living is updated and improved, resulting in an affordable house with extreme resource-use reductions.
A California school centered on ecological instruction gets a sustainable makeover and addition from EHDD.
ZGF Architects designs a flexible and sustainable government building that fosters workplace collaboration and a connection to the outdoors.
A mixed-use development designed by Milwaukee’s Continuum Architects + Planners turns a blighted block into a community showpiece.
With more clients demanding fact-based design, architects and builders increasingly will need to collect and analyze occupancy data on their projects. A recent study of DLR Group’s high-performance schools shows how a firm can benefit from this data collection.
A KieranTimberlake-designed student housing project capitalizes on its sunny, breezy location.
Boston firm demonstrates the power of energy tracking and benchmarking in multifamily projects.
An affordable housing development designed by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects transformed a vacant property into a community asset.
New litter and recycling bins from Forms+Surfaces feature aluminum and Jatoba hardwood.
This insulation is made of recycled polyurethane foam and cork granules.
EcoBatt insulation can improve STC ratings in walls by three to 10 points.
SheerWeave Performance + Style 2500 reduces solar heat gain and sound.
Cotton Armor contains at least 85% recycled content.
Four new lines from Noble Environmental Technologies Corp's Ecor brand provide pliable composities for architectural surfaces.
Nine colors of recycled material can be used for countertops, retail surfaces, and more.
A personal lesson on the value of good indoor environmental quality goes a long way.
A new collection of Axminster carpets is inspired by the sea.
A net-zero-energy transit hub in in Greenfield, Mass., looks to the future.
An optical senser on Hydreon Corp.'s rain gauge closes windows and vents when it rains.
More than a decade after its completion, a German banking headquarters continues to garner attention for its form and how it functions.
Lighter concrete means reduced fuel during transportation.
Scrap tires are gold mines for Ecore, which repurposes reclaimed rubber into building and flooring products in four steps.
Two new ventilation fans from Panasonic feature LED light engines.
Energy recovery ventilation is an old technology that is garnering new attention.
New releases of manufactured brick veneer offer more color and texture options.
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Make the most of acoustical insulation by first understanding how it works.
Architectural Systems Inc.'s new hardwood defies the thin-plank trends: these boards come standard at 6".
Overall, the agency reports a significant increase in certified projects, with Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, New York, and Atlanta ranking in the top five.
Restoring and updating a 100-year-old building in Cleveland required vision and creativity.
A TDD and LEDs merge for optimal, energy-saving light.
A new report calls for immediate examination of outdated and unhealthy educational facilities.
The Brightwater Center demystifies the water treatment process for local students and the community.
New colors to FilterPave's porous pavement offer more options for coordinating with its surroundings.
Transparency strengthens the mission, visibility, and healing environment of a neuroscience center.
New designs by Fabricut feature Bella-Dura's 100% recyclable material.
We ignore the facts at our peril.
Revising the blueprint for campus living.
Sustainable features include net-zero capability and flexible classroom design.
Isokorb reduces heat transfer through the building envelope.
A principal from BAR Architects walks us through the process and value of bringing stakeholders to the table from the get-go.
More productive workplaces are achievable at a price comparable to conventional buildings.
The City of Copenhagen breaks ground on Bjarke Ingels Group's waste-to-energy plant that doubles as a ski slope.
The Cradle to Cradle-certified systems can be used alone or in mixed planted green roofs.
Benefits include improved student health, well-being, and performance as well as teacher and faculty satisfaction.
To position their image as responsible stewards of the environment, retailers of all sizes are adopting green building measures, says ELS Architecture and Urban Design’s director of retail and mixed use Sean Slater, AIA.
The respected green-building leader from HOK and 2012 ECOSTRUCTURE Evergreen Award winner Mary Ann Lazarus, FAIA, joins the AIA as a Resident Fellow for two years to focus on sustainability and health.
While the GSA continues to evaluate green-building rating systems, a report from the National Research Council says the Department of Defense should keep using LEED.
The institution aims to become the first smart-powered aquarium by 2020.
The product meets both Greenguard and Greenguard Children & Schools certifications.
The district achieves 50 percent participation eight months ahead of schedule.
Energy-saving strategies promote natural ventilation within a campus spiritual center.
Eighty-seven percent of Seattle’s large-building owners are now tracking their buildings’ energy performance, the city of Seattle reports.
The administration postpones its decision on which green-building system to use, and announces it is taking comments for the next 60 days on how the federal government can best use LEED 2009, Green Globes, and the Living Building Challenge.
Net-zero-energy modular classrooms allow a variety of configurations, and encourage outdoor learning to allow users to take full advantage of their environments.
The program will support and expand workplace vehicle-charging availability.
Survey finds that 40 percent oppose development restrictions for water-short areas.
Washington, D.C., tops the annual ranking of LEED-certified projects.
New report shows U.S. multifamily housing stock has potential energy savings of $9 billion.
Monitoring the pulse of sustainable design, ECOHOME and ECO-STRUCTURE launch a must-read green-building email newsletter.