BURBANK, Calif. — Burbank Water and Power and AHBE Landscape Architects have completed the first phase of the state’s first sustainable utility campus.
Leaders of the water and electricity company saw an opportunity to go green when they replaced the power plant and substations on their campus in 2005.
DAVIS, Calif. — Companies that are open about being green appear to see their stock values rise as a result, according to a study by University of California researchers.
UC Davis professor Paul Griffin and his co-author, Yuan Sun of UC Berkeley, tracked the stock prices of several companies around the time they issued press releases about their greenhouse gas emissions and carbon reduction strategies.
In the days after the press releases were published, the companies saw their stock prices jump significantly, Griffin and Sun found.
Victoria Arbitrio, PE, SECB, is an Associate Partner with the New York City office of Gilsanz Murray Steficek, a structural engineering and building envelope consulting firm. Ms. Arbitrio is currently a Director for the Applied Technology Council (ATC), and serves on the Metropolitan Region Board of Directors for the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC-NY). She is also a Past President of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA), and a member of the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB).
WASHINGTON — The Sustainable Sites Initiative has certified the first three projects under its new rating system that evaluates the sustainable design, construction and maintenance of built landscapes.
