While it’s easy to explain the benefits of energy efficiency to building owners, it’s much more difficult to ensure their facilities continue to perform at peak performance while you’re working to ...

Water factors into all national green building certification programs, and while it may account for only a small piece of the overall sustainability pie, there are points to be earned by targeting ...

The text of the Living Building Challenge (LBC) certification system reads more like a manifesto than a green building standard. The document asks project teams to “imagine a building designed and ...

Northeastern Junior College (NJC) announced Wednesday, Nov. 19, that it has been awarded LEED Gold on their new Applied Technology Campus building. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) ...

A SPECIAL CERTIFICATION FOR A NEW BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE. AND UNITED COMMUNITIES HEADQUARTERS, WHICH IS NEXT TO THE GRAND BOHEMIAN HOTEL, IS THE FIRST PROJECT IN SOUTH CAROLINA TO EARN IT.

Today in the United States, buildings account for nearly 40% of carbon emissions (EESI) and 78% of electricity usage. The most sustainability-focused firms run energy simulations for less than 50% of ...