Obayashi’s New Green Building Gains Worldwide Recognition
TOKYO, Japan — Obayashi Corporation’s Technical Research Institute (TRI) Techno Station has taken international attention with its high levels of achievement in two green building certificatio


WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced its third annual Best of Green Schools list in December.
AUSTIN, Texas — BOKA Powell, headquartered in Dallas, is paving a new future for green design in Austin. The recent completion of the 280,000-square-foot RiverView sustainable apartment complex at LadyBird Lake demonstrated a new means of rainwater management for the city on a difficult urban waterfront site.
SEATTLE — Phase 3.1 of the University of Washington’s Medicine Research Complex has achieved LEED Gold certification.
JOHNSTON, R.I. — Boston-based Margulies Perruzzi Architects (MPA) is currently transforming a 153-acre office park development into a LEED Gold facility.
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — As of the 2013 fall term, the multimillion-dollar Center for Student Life now serves as the focal point for students at Augustana College. The college’s centerpiece of academic life has been reinvigorated with the addition of 35,000 square feet and two new functions: dining services and student activities.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Seattle-based McKinstry, a full-service design-build-operate-and-maintain (DBOM) firm, announced the one-year performance metrics for Spokane’s retrofitted Thomas S. Foley United States Courthouse project.
BILLINGS, Mont. — In just a one-month period, Billings-based High Plains Architects has received three LEED Platinum certifications for their design of the Boy and Girls Club of Carbon County, the Wyss Wilderness Medicine Campus and the renovation of the historic Tracy Lofts.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The city of San Jose has transformed its processing of organic wastes with the opening of the world’s largest dry fermentation anaerobic digestion facility.
NEW YORK — Perkins+Will is making strides to create green, healthy health care facilities to promote the healing of patients and pave a new path for sustainable hospital design.