WASHINGTON — The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) last week launched a new online data visualization resource that allows viewers to survey real-time green building data for each state in the U.S. and Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON — The Committee on the Environment (COTE), a committee of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), announced their annual Top Ten Green Projects last week.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. and Sunpower Corp., a designer, manufacturer and deliverer of solar panels and solar energy systems, have announced that they will team up to finance approximately $250 million in residential solar lease projects.
The two companies announced last week that they would invest a combined $250 million with Google contributing $100 million and SunPower committing approximately $150 million.
ST. PETER, Minn. — The Beck Academic Hall at Gustavus Adolphus College has earned LEED Platinum certification. The $30 million, 125,000-square-foot building is the third academic building to attain LEED Platinum certification in the state of Minnesota.
Lord Aeck Sargent (LAS) has promoted John Kisner, AIA, LEED AP, former director of the firm’s Texas office, to a principal of the architecture and planning firm. Kisner joined LAS in 2008. He relocated from Atlanta in late 2011 to become associate director of the Austin office when the firm acquired the assets of TWC Architects, and became office director in 2013. Kisner attended Rice University, where he earned his master’s degree in architecture.
A new lighting fixture by Precision-Paragon (P2) is the manufacturer’s first wet location LED fixture with efficacies up to 110 lumens per watt and a wide range of lumen outputs to address a variety of lighting applications, according to the company. The new LED LVT is a high-bay wide body vapor tight fixture available in multiple lumen packages, allowing the fixture to be used in a wide range of situations that may call for different light output requirements.
SAN DIEGO — Opened April 2, the new headquarters of LPL Financial at La Jolla Commons is now the largest net-zero energy and carbon-neutral commercial building in the U.S.
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego International Airport is the first commercial airport in the world to be awarded LEED Platinum certification.
CHICAGO — The manufacturers of the iconic, red Radio Flyer wagon have achieved LEED Platinum for the company’s Chicago headquarters building.
LANSING, Mich. — The innovative South Campus Anaerobic Digester at Michigan State University received the Institutional Biogas Project of the Year Award from the American Biogas Council.
Serving both a functional and educational purpose for the university, the anaerobic digester was designed by Anaergia Inc., headquartered in Burlington, Ontario. Weiland Davco, based in Lansing, Mich., served as the project contractor while 2g Energy, headquartered in Heek, Germany, was the engine supplier on the project.
