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Q&A: Rachel Gutter, USGBC

17 years ago16 years ago13 mins

Gutter

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Greening Correctional Facilities: Water Efficiency & Conservation

17 years ago16 years ago11 mins

Dunn

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Architect Outlines Tips For Sustainable Healthcare Design

17 years ago16 years ago7 mins

While sustainable building practices are found throughout the architecture and design industry, it is especially critical that they are incorporated in healthcare facilities.

It’s not a revolutionary concept to build green, yet facility designers and managers at healthcare facilities are often unsure how to embrace the concept. With tightening budgets, an uncertain economic future and an abundance of information to decipher, it can seem like a daunting task to go green.

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Sheriff’s Dept. Completes Efficiency, Upgrade Project

17 years ago16 years ago6 mins

LUDLOW, Mass. — The Hampden County Sheriff’s Department completed major infrastructure improvements designed to increase energy and water efficiency, reduce operational costs and reduce the department’s environmental footprint.

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Building Sustainability into Existing Facilities

17 years ago16 years ago11 mins

While reducing the environmental impact of facilities and promoting a healthier work environment are emerging as central goals for a growing number of jurisdictions and agencies in the corrections and justice market, many facility owners, administrators and managers remain skeptical about how to fund such programs given the constant pressure to keep operating costs low, especially as energy prices continue to climb.

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Greening Corrections Fosters Health, Productivity

17 years ago16 years ago6 mins

Some of the most important benefits of green building design are often overlooked because they are the most difficult to quantify, but safety, health and productivity of correctional officers in particular may be motivating factors in greening correctional facilities.

Indoor Air Quality

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$94 Million UCSF Building Aims for LEED Silver

17 years ago16 years ago3 mins

SAN FRANCISCO — Construction of a new $94.5 million Institute for Regeneration Medicine Building at University of California, San Francisco, is scheduled to begin this summer.

The 73,000-square-foot building will house the university’s regeneration program and offer space for collaboration among scientific and medical researchers.

Rafael Vinoly Architects designed the building to fit along a narrow hillside between a surface street and UCSF Medical Center. The building will be terraced and will follow the arc of the hillside.

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University Building’s Passive Design Earns LEED Silver Certification

17 years ago16 years ago5 mins

KENNESAW, Ga. — The passive design concepts at Kennesaw State University’s new social science building help the facility earn LEED Silver certification for its passive design.
The design of the 164,000-square-foot building features window placement that avoids direct light, building materials with recycled content and strategy orientation of the facility.

Most of the green aspects of the building were based on an intuitive, efficient design, says Bill Clark, a principal for Stevenson & Wilkinson Stang & Newdow, Inc., the design firm for the project.

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Community Ties

17 years ago16 years ago11 mins

Green Schools Offer New Lessons

In the new age of green buildings, input from school officials, parents and the community is crucial to ensure that a new facility is designed with components that are the most beneficial to the people it serves. Environmentally friendly bells and whistles are rendered irrelevant and sometimes become costly add-ons if they are not understood, accepted and harnessed by the community.

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Greenbuild Swells With Capacity Crowds

18 years ago16 years ago3 mins

CHICAGO — Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council’s annual conference, swept through Chicago last week, cramming the facilities at McCormick Place with more than 21,000 attendees and 850 exhibitors.

The conference site appeared overwhelmed at times with limited space for educational seminars and attendees waiting in long lines to hear speakers and purchase food and beverages.