Green Building Focus
Bloomberg Businessweek - Apr 26
The Manuel Gea González Hospital in Mexico City has installed a decorative, white facade made from a sophisticated new material that helps purify the air. Designed by Berlin-based Elegant Embellishments, the 2,500-square-meter facade is constructed from the firm’s 3D Prosolve 370e modules. These modules are coated with a special pigment that, when hit by ambient ultraviolet light, reacts with urban air pollutants, breaking them down into less noxious compounds like carbon dioxide and water.
Clean Techies Blog - Apr 29
$40 billion is hiding somewhere inside the lights, AC, thermostats, furnaces, and fans of our offices, stores, hospitals, and schools. That’s the amount of money the federal government estimates we can save annually by reducing energy use by 20% in commercial buildings by 2020.
Eco Home Magazine - Green News - Apr 23
The Robinson Laboratory of Astrophysics at Caltech in Pasadena, California, is now the shared home of the Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science, dedicated to the study of climate change. The renovated building recently earned LEED Platinum as one of the most energy-efficient labs in the country, employing various sustainable technologies that include solar panels, fuel cells, daylighting, and a chilled-water cooling system.
ArchDaily - Apr 25
Phipps Conservatory opened its new Center for Sustainable Landscapes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The 24,350-sq. ft. structure is pursuing all three of the highest green architecture and landscape standards: the Living Building Challenge SM, LEED Platinum, and Sustainable Sites Initiative certification.
DesignBuild Source - Featured Projects - Apr 25
The new $36 million Mediated Learning Center at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, California, uses an energy-free ventilation system and earned LEED Platinum. The system ventilates over 80% of the building without electronic devices or strong external winds.
EarthTechling - Green Tech, Green Products & Energy News - Apr 25
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is serving as energy advisor to the DoD and the U.S. Navy. NREL is helping the DoD to slash 21% in energy costs that are spent to operate DoD installations around the world.
Eco Home Magazine - Green News - Apr 25
Demarest Elementary School in Bloomfield, New Jersey, beat out more than 3,000 other buildings of all shapes, sizes, and uses across the U.S. to win the EPA's 2012 Energy Star Battle of the Buildings competition, with a 52-percent reduction in annual energy usage, dropping its kBtu per square foot use from 165 to 79 with an estimated associated cost savings of $75,900.
Eco Home Magazine - Green News - Apr 24
JPMorgan Chase joined New York City’s Carbon Challenge to Commercial Offices, an initiative to reduce energy use and emissions from some of the largest commercial building in the city during the next 10 years. With 9.4 million sq. ft. in New York City, JPMorgan Chase is the largest participant.
Ellisville News Magazine - Apr 23
Monsanto Company plans to join its St. Louis-based R&D team onto one campus with a $400 million expansion at its Chesterfield Village Research Center. Monsanto will add 36 new greenhouses, additional offices and laboratory space, as well as additional plant growth chambers to facilitate development of its seed and trait pipeline. The LEED-certified expansion is made possible with the support of the state of Missouri and St. Louis County.
Green Building Projects
EarthTechling - Green Tech, Green Products & Energy News - Apr 25
Seattle's renovated King Street Station now features ground-source heat pumps to regulate temperatures for the building and photovoltaic solar panels. The project salvaged original building materials for reuse and recycled 98 percent of construction waste. The station is expected to receive LEED Platinum certification from the USGBC later this year.
ArchDaily - Apr 23
GlaxoSmithKline's new flagship office building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earned both Core & Shell and Commercial Interiors LEED Platinum certification. It is the first double LEED Platinum building in Philadelphia.
Marketwire.com Automotive News - Apr 25
Volkswagen's product development and emissions test laboratory in Oxnard, California, earned LEED certification.
World Interior Design Network News - Apr 29
The Moorhead Environmental Complex, located in the Stroud Water Research Center in Pennsylvania, earned LEED Platinum for its contribution to ahealthier environment for residents, workers, and the community.