POINT GREY, British Columbia — The University of British Columbia (UBC) recently became Canada’s first major higher education provider to produce both clean heat and electricity from renewable bioenergy.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California recently launched the nation’s largest implementation of the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing model with 14 counties and 126 cities entering into the largest joint powers agreement in state history, to form CaliforniaFIRST.
SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) recently celebrated a major renovation project on the state’s Capital Mall, making major upgrades to a 61-year-old structure that will increase the workplace experience for employees and lead to major long-term cost savings due to new energy-efficient strategies.
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Just how high-tech is the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company QBotix? To answer that question, let me introduce the QBotix Tracking System (QTS).
VANCOUVER, Wash. — The New Buildings Institute recently announced the official release of its new LEED automation tool, called the COMNET Energy Modeling Portal.
The institute is a non-profit organization with the stated goal of making it easier for builders to create green structures, with the hope of eventually building net-zero energy structures — which would consist of a building receiving all of its energy needs from renewable sources.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Martha Jefferson Hospital proved that green can be beautiful when it was named America’s Most Beautiful Hospital of 2012 by Soliant Health, a health care staffing firm, which began holding a vote on the topic four years ago.
ERLANGEN, Germany — The largest wind turbine rotor blade in the world will soon be installed off the British coast, thanks to the collaboration between Siemens and DONG Energy.
NEW YORK — Since its launch in 2000, the LEED building certification system has become a unanimously recognized scale on both the national and international level, for honoring projects that focus on efficiency and green aspects of design and construction.
