Virginia School Earns Gold Certification

ARLINGTON, Va. — The new Washington-Lee High School, a public school in Arlington County, recently received LEED Gold certification — the second public school project in the state to do so.
McDonough Bolyard Peck Inc. of Fairfax, Va., provided construction management for the $85 million replacement. Grimm + Parker Architects of McLean, Va., provided design services, and Hess Construction Co. was the contractor.
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Green Onion is filling more than one niche (The Carmi Times)

She doesn’t consider herself a great cook and she never aspired to be a restaurant owner. But Sandy Orr and her oldest daughter, Jennifer Johnson, are feeding hundreds of people each week through their Crossville-based business, The Green Onion. Orr was the speaker at Thursday’s weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Carmi, held at the Farm Bureau Building.

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Laura O’Connor

Laura OConnorMcDonald, Souter & Paz, a Los Angeles firm specializing in institutional and educational design, hired Laura O’Conner, LEED AP, as project manager. She is currently managing a consolidation project for the Los Angeles County Office of Education and a small learning communities project for Garfield High School.

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ICC, ASHRAE, USGBC and IES Announce Nation’s First Set of Model Codes and Standards for Green … (ThomasNet)

International Code Council (ICC), ASHRAE, US Green Building Council (USGBC), and Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) – all members of ANSI – have announced launch of International Green Construction Code (IGCC). As merger of 2 national efforts to develop adoptable and enforceable green building codes, IGCC will provide building industry with language that broadens and …

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Banquet, concert round out green building day (Calaveras Enterprise)

Trathen Heckman will speak at the Sierra Green Days banquet. Courtesy photo Starting at 4 p.m. Saturday, Portland, Ore., artist Garett Brennan and his band, the Great Salt Licks, will play a free concert on the main stage at Ironstone Vineyards as part of Sierra Green Days, a three-day celebration of health, sustainability and community put on by the Foothill Collaborative for Sustainability.

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Houston Pushes Going Green to Save Green (KIAH-TV Houston)

The city’s year-old Green Building Resource Center unveiled its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification. It’s part of Houston’s ongoing effort to cut energy consumption and help the community do the same. Air conditioning season is just around the corner, and with it, the pain of piling up big cooling bills. In fact, chances are your home or business is probably working …

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