Dual-Use Higher Ed. Facility Earns LEED Gold
DOE Opens Net-Zero Office
Firm Tests Wind-to-Battery Storage
Study: Green Offices are More Productive
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new study released by Michigan State University draws an evidence-based connection between environmentally friendly offices buildings and the productivity of office staff.
Titled “Effects of Green Buildings on Employee Health and Productivity,” the study examined two cases in the Lansing area where workers moved from a conventional office building to an environmentally friendly green facility. Workers claimed they called in sick less often and were more productive in the new sustainable environment.
Read More Detroit Edison Works Toward 2015 Energy Goal
WAYNE, Mich. — Regional utility Detroit Edison Co. has partnered with the Ford Motor Co.
Read More Terra-Gen Breaks Ground on Wind Farm
TEHACHAPI, Calif. — Terra-Gen Power recently broke ground on the Alta Wind Energy Center, located in the Mojave Desert about 75 miles north of Los Angeles, which will feature more than 600 wind turbines that will produce upwards of 1,550 megawatts of renewable electricity at the site.
Veterans’ Hospitals Go Solar
The Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif.
N.C. Jail Earns LEED Silver
iPad Construction Work
THOMASVILLE, Ga. — At the construction site of a new $113 million, eight-story patient tower on the campus of the Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville. Ga., craftsmen and site supervisors were able to reference a virtual layout of the project from their Apple iPads.
The NoliWhite Group, a healthcare facility developer based in Brentwood, Tenn., launched the Project Information Integration, or PI2, initiative, earlier this year, which features the construction of a new patient tower.
Read More Sustainable Landscape Rating Pilot Program Introduced
WASHINGTON — A new national rating system for sustainable landscape design, construction and maintenance has selected over 150 test sites to participate in a two-year pilot program.
The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES), a partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin, and the United States Botanic Garden, provides voluntary guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable landscapes of all kinds, with or without buildings.