More businesses and facilities are focusing on how they can operate in a greener and more sustainable manner. But now many, large and small, are taking that a step further. They want to ensure that the companies they do business with are also operating in a more environmentally responsible and sustainable manner.
CARLISLE, Pa. — Opened this month, the renovation and expansion at Dickinson College’s Kline Center in Carlisle offers students an athletic center that combines fitness amenities with sustainable architecture.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Green Building Initiative (GBI) has put together a group of experts to revise and update a standard for green commercial building.
Developed in 2010 and officially titled “ANSI/GBI 01-2010: Green Building Assessment Protocol for Commercial Buildings,” the standard helps building project leaders find materials that quality for sustainable credits. The standard was derived from derived from the Green Globes environmental design and assessment rating system for new construction.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Department of General Services (DGS) announced last week that it has completed two solar power installation projects at a state-run prison and state hospital in Coalinga, Calif.
Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Hobbs+Black has promoted Claude Faro, RA, LEED AP BD+C to senior associate in the Ann Arbor
office. For seven years, Faro has worked as a part of the Retail Studio at Hobbs+Black on projects such as the multi-award winning City Creek Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. Claude is currently working as the project architect on the Mall at San Juan in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
CertaSize VOC-Compliant Symphony f from CertainTeed Ceilings is the industry’s only VOC-compliant flexible-size ceiling system. By offering a wide range of modular panel sizes, the new panels support a clean, custom ceiling visual by removing the clutter of air return vents, light fixtures and other mechanical elements. The ceiling system is also the only flexible-size ceiling system with a published environmental product declaration (EPD) and health product declaration (HPD), offering third-party verification on both life-cycle sustainability and the product’s material makeup.
There is a common saying in the construction industry that the most sustainable space is the space never built. For health care organizations planning to expand or renovate their facilities, the idea of eliminating unneeded space holds real cost benefits, as the most cost-effective space is the space never built.
WALTHAM, MASS. — Vistaprint workers await the completion of their future headquarters in Waltham, a sustainable and dynamic complex being built in an office-park setting.
DALLAS — Rambler Park, a 310,000-square-foot office building in Dallas, has been awarded the first LEED Platinum for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance certification in the city and north Texas.
