Little Rock Police Station Earns LEED Silver
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Little Rock’s 12th Street Station, a 46,000-square-foot police station, recently achieved LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
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Wyndham to Offer Green Hotel Prototypes
PARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS, N.J. — Wyndham Hotel Group, headquartered in Parsippany-Troy Hills, announced June 2 that it will offer LEED-certifiable, new construction prototypes for its two largest brands, Days Inn and Super 8.
Feds Approve Projects for New Solar Energy Plan
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San Francisco City Hall Oldest Building to Earn LEED Platinum
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s 100-year-old City Hall is now the oldest building in the U.S. to receive LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Yellowstone Project Uses Batteries for Solar Power
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. —At the Lamar Buffalo Ranch field campus in Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park, a distributed energy system that combines solar power generation with re-used car battery packs is now online.
GE Lighting Honors Lighting Design Achievement
CLEVELAND — GE Lighting, headquartered in Cleveland, recently honored a team of architects for their lighting design at Square Inc., a mobile payments startup company that is based in San Francisco.
Acoustics: The Sounds of Sustainable Design
As the field of sustainable design grows and matures, more practitioners are turning away from a field that is based only on clear-cut metrics and realizing that the fuzzier areas of human comfort and productivity are very important as well. Consequently, space acoustics are garnering growing attention in sustainable projects.
Potawatomi Hotel & Casino Attains LEED Gold
MILWAUKEE — Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee earned LEED Gold certification, making it the first hotel in Wisconsin to attain the green building achievement, according to an announcement made May 6.
Hitchcock Center Designed for Sustainable Standards
AMHERST, Mass. — The Hitchcock Center for the Environment, located in Amherst, broke ground May 1 on an environmental center designed and constructed to the world’s toughest sustainable development standards.
L’Oreal Makes Progress on Sustainability Commitment
NEW YORK — L’Oreal USA revealed last week the first measured results of its global sustainability program, which was first launched in 2013.