Green Building & Retrofits

ASU leads academia on sustainability

The Phoenix area may soon go from being viewed as a region with little interest in sustainability to one that makes a major contribution to the field. Dr. Rob Melnick and his colleagues at Arizona...
Atlantic Wharf honored for sustainability

BOSTON–Boston Properties’s Atlantic Wharf project, a mixed-use building here, has received the annual Sustainable Development Award from NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association.The...
Financing energy improvements with tax incentives

By Margaret Moore, Capital Review Group, an EnOcean Alliance MemberCommercial building and facility owners today are investigating a wide variety of ways to cut energy usage and costs. Many of...
EPA offers technical assistance

Local communities looking for technical assistance for sustainable growth strategies may be able to get free help from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Applications for two days of on-...
New lab focuses on home energy efficiency

A new laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical-looking suburban home for a family of four can generate as much energy as it uses in a year has opened in Gaithersburg, MD.The lab is run by...
Alternative Energy: New York passes new solar incentives

New York State continues to make significant strides toward greater sustainability under the leadership of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Conference set on making affordable housing greener

Green affordable housing and community development will be the focus of a two-day conference as part of the Greenbuild International Conference & Expo. The National Affordable Green Homes and...
Wells Fargo Starts $100 Million Environmental Grant Program

Wells Fargo has initiated its new Environmental Grant Program by awarding $15 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). The program plans to deploy $100 million in grants by 2020...
Sustainability Base: NASA facility demonstrates green building techniques

The first new building to be built at NASA’s Ames Research Center in 20 years will save more than 60 percent of the energy and more than 80 percent of the water typically used by a facility of its...
Study supports environmental benefits for building reuse vs. new construction

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