Misc

SALT LAKE CITY — In some ways, the old downtown malls never went away.

WARWICK – A state working group is calling for pumping millions into developing a green economy, imposing stricter building codes for energy efficiency, aiming to make Quonset a hub for the wind farm industry and developing a center for excellence in green manufacturing.

With the help of newly installed electric meters in each dormitory and efforts by students, faculty, and staff to enhance campus-wide awareness of energy conservation, George School is participating for the second consecutive year in the National Green Cup Challenge.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — San Anselmo and Fairfax heard presentations this month from the Marin Green Building, Energy Retrofit and Solar Transformation Collaborative, a countywide task force created to promote energy conservation in building practices.

Abengoa Solar Inc., under contract to Johnson Controls Inc., is installing a turnkey solar hot water heating system at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) located in Englewood, Colorado.

Charlevoix City and county are slated to receive a grand total of $178,707 in two green grants from the federal government.

Sweeping environmental standards await new mayor Baltimore’s green building law, considered one of the most sweeping in the nation, lingers in a legal limbo of sorts more than seven months after it supposedly took effect.

Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School (OCRVT) is going green. In a major effort to reduce its energy output, the school is getting a makeover in the form of building upgrades that will reduce Old Colony’s utility usage by 50 percent per year. A kick-off celebration on February 2 marked the launch of the $3 million energy efficiency upgrade project. The event – which took place at …

The new Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., has won three top architecture awards.

Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company’s Engineering Technology Center in Chicago has received LEED Silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council , further advancing the company’s goal to leverage high-performance design across its existing facilities.