BRAZORIA, Texas — The new LEED-certified West Brazos Junior High School is breaking ground in green design and student test scores.
The new school is the first public junior high school in Texas to receive LEED certification. The state is trying to pass legislation that would require all new public buildings to achieve basic certification.
HOUSTON — The Greater Houston Partnership hosted the first of two symposiums designed to educate business leaders about environmentally sustainable buildings.
GHP — the city’s premiere advocacy group and informational clearinghouse — attracted several hundred business leaders, developers and architects to the event, which featured USGBC President Rick Fedrizzi and Houston Mayor Bill White.
WEBSTER, Texas — The Houston metropolitan land market and simple long-run economics pushed Jacob White Construction to develop the three-story East Medical Center project around environmentally sustainable technologies that may win LEED gold certification with the largest living roof in the state, according to officials.
But company president Jeff Mickler also sees the project, which features two 48,000-square-foot medical buildings, as a marketing tool that can differentiate Jacob White in the market.
HOUSTON — H2Diesel enlisted the renewable-energy financing expertise of eBarton to launch the company’s alternative bio-fuel Throughout North America.
Prompted by an increase in bio-fuels consumption, the company sought eBarton’s assistance in marketing its bio-fuel to utilities and independent power producers.
Houston-based H2Diesel holds an exclusive manufacturing license to proprietary alternative bio-fuel technology that produces bio-fuel from renewable vegetable oils and animal fats.
PLANO, Texas — The Greenguard Environmental Institute has certified Smith System’s entire product portfolio of desks, chairs and library furniture.
GEI is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving public health and quality of life through programs that improve indoor air quality. The certification program was created to recognize companies that have products that meet or exceed requirements for low chemical emissions.
