NEW ORLEANS — Two years after a $7.5 million renovation to the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law’s Broadway Building was completed, it received LEED Silver certification, making the campus more attractive for future prospective students.
BOSTON — Nitsch Engineering, a Boston-based civil engineering firm, recently moved into a new LEED Gold-designed office space at Two Central Plaza.
LANCASTER, Calif. — In March, the Lancaster City Council voted unanimously to change the city’s zoning code to require housing developers to install solar energy systems with every new home built, and it is the first U.S. city to do so.
STANFORD, Calif. — In early March, Stanford University’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) awarded $6.6 million to advance research on clean-burning fuels and technologies for capturing carbon dioxide emissions. Seven research teams — six from Stanford and one from Carnegie Mellon University, located in Pittsburgh — will share the funding.
The total number of GCEP-supported research programs is now 104, with funding totaling about $125 million since the project launched in 2002.
