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.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — LEED Platinum certification was not part of the plan for the new 186,000-square-foot Forrester Research headquarters in Cambridge, but it has since achieved that after opening in mid-2011.
Dallas-headquartered HKS is a 74-year-old architectural firm that has accomplished major milestones in terms of sustainable and innovative design since designing its first LEED project in 1999.
COLUMBIA, Md. — In early March, New Energy Technologies entered into Phase II of its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S.
DURHAM, N.C. — Green building experts no longer have to worry about convincing consumers to switch to LED lighting, as Durham-based Cree Inc. recently launched an LED bulb that is affordable and shines as bright as comparable incandescent bulbs while saving 84 percent of the energy that traditional bulbs use.
KIRKLAND, Wash. — Earlier this month, Google announced that it’s doubling the size of its Kirkland campus located on the outskirts of Seattle. The project would add two new buildings on a five-acre plot of land west of the existing campus and would create enough room to hire about 1,000 more employees.
