The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced its headquarters in Washington, D.C., has been awarded a prestigious triple Platinum certification in LEED, TRUE and WELL. This trio of certifications…
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Have you heard of Nordhavn? The neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark, has received press in recent years as the most sustainable and resilient community in the world.…
The idea of designing and constructing environmentally friendly buildings is not new. The so-called “green building” movement goes back as far as the 1960s and ’70s,…
The latest report from the Geneva-based United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a dire warning about the need to act to reduce greenhouse-gas…
As part of its Living Standard initiative, the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Green Building Council has released a U.S. public research report titled “Standard Issue” that sets…
UL and the Center for Active Design (CfAD), operator of Fitwel, a building certification system for health, has announced a partnership that will expand the market…