
USGBC Names 16 Local Governments to 2025 LEED for Cities Certification Cohort
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced the 16 local governments selected to participate in the 2025 LEED for Cities Certification Cohort.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced the 16 local governments selected to participate in the 2025 LEED for Cities Certification Cohort.
Toronto Metropolitan University will break ground May 6 on the new Student Wellbeing Centre, an 8-story tower that will establish a central hub at the heart of the urban campus.
A new microgrid system at the Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center will add 2 megawatts of on-site solar generation to the state’s electrical grid.
University of Albany, one of the four “university centers” of the state’s State University of New York (SUNY) system, recently embarked on a $30 million decarbonization project that will greatly reduce fossil fuel consumption.
National healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente is expanding its specialty care presence in Sacramento’s downtown area with the recent groundbreaking of a new state-of-the-art, all-electric hospital.
An annual review of the building and construction sector’s environmental standings was released last week by the United Nations Environment Program and the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction.
The city of Evanston, Ill., located just north of Chicago, is the first community in the state and the second in the Midwest to enact the Healthy Building Ordinance (HBO): a building-performance standard requiring buildings exceeding 20,000 square feet in size to eliminate onsite emissions and use renewable energy.
As mass timber use continues to proliferate across building sectors in the U.S. and globally, U.S. senators from both sides of the political aisle have joined forces to promote the sustainable, biophilic natural resource.
Mathison Hall at Canada’s University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business recently received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification from the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) for its sustainable and energy-efficient materials, systems and design.
This spring, construction will begin on the new College of the Desert (COD) Palm Springs campus, which will address the growing need for higher education access on the west side of the Coachella Valley. While COD already has a main campus, the new site was strategically planned to better serve students in Palm Springs and neighboring communities. Located directly across from Palm Springs High School, the campus aims to provide a direct pathway to continued education for students who may not otherwise have the means to attend college.