Design

Council on Foreign Relations Goes LEED

The Council on Foreign Relations' new building in Washington, D.C., took extra steps to attain LEED Gold status by the U.S. Green Building ...

Roof Tiles Would Save Energy By Turning Color

By turning white in warmer weather and thus reflecting light, a new breed of roof tiles could save companies energy. In the winter, conversely, ...

Stop Cooling the Data Center

Cooling is not going to be a major contributor to data center costs in five years. In fact, in five years, the temperature in ...

Greener Dawn Building Goes Carbon Neutral

After relocating to a building that takes advantage of natural ventilation to reduce heating and cooling bills, and purchasing carbon credits to ...

Signage Businesses Adopt Eco-Friendly Inks, Materials

Businesses that provide signage solutions and other promotional materials are now starting to use environmentally-friendly inks, along with recyclable materials, thanks in part to HP's latest ...

Sony Electronics HQ Boasts Solar, LEED Construction

The new Sony Electronics headquarters building in San Diego uses solar-equipped parking structures to defray some of the facility's electric needs. Built to LEED standards - but not yet certified - the 455,000 square foot building ...

Study Quantifies Carbon Mitigation of Green Roofs

Extensive adoption of green roofs in a million-person city could capture 55,000 tons of CO2 annually, according to a two-year study from Michigan State University. Prior to ...

New Produce Carton Uses 21% Less Fiber

A new breed of fresh produce carton from Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. uses 21 percent less fiber and has as good or better stacking ...

Reno’s Peppermill Resort Pumps $8.1M into Geothermal

Tapping into clean renewable geothermal energy, the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino in Reno, Nev., has a solution to cover 100 percent of the facility's hot ...

Elevator, Escalator ‘Cruise Control’ Can Save 34% in Power

Installing efficiency controllers to the electric motors of elevators and escalators can help reduce the waste associated with such people movers that more often ...

Minnesota’s Target Center Completes Green Roof

At 2.5 acres, the green roof atop the Target Center in the Twin Cities is the nation's fifth-largest and the first installed on a North American ...

What’s so ‘Free’ About Free Cooling?

There is a lot of discussion lately regarding "free cooling." It seems you cannot pick up a trade publication without reading about how company XYZ ...

American Life Green Roof to Cut Cooling Costs 20-30%

A vegetative roof atop the headquarters of American Life and Accident Insurance Co. of Kentucky will reduce heating and cooling needs by 20-30 percent. The green roof, ...

Green Wall Lowers Temperature 25%

North America's ...

From the White House to the Green House

President Obama plans to upgrade the White House, with the goal of obtaining LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The Federal Energy Management ...

USGBC Wants an Environmental Label for Every Building

Every building in the U.S. should have a label as to its environmental impact, said the U.S. Green Building Council's president at the Healthy Buildings meeting. ...

Green Buildings Combine Healthy Living with Energy Savings

Whether it's a commercial or residential green building project that is designed from the ground up to be eco-friendly or an energy-efficient retrofit, developers are realizing ...

Audi, Jaguar/Land Rover Gear Up for Luxury, Sustainability

Calling sustainability the new luxury, the president of Audi America said that Audi hopes to be the top luxury carmaker in the world by 2015, based ...

Apple’s New OS Could Save $10 million Annually in Energy

Apple computer users who upgrade to the Snow Leopard operating system can expect to save about 10 percent in electricity a year. Considering Apple's annual sales ...

LEED Takes Hit For Underdelivering on Federal Building

Critics are coming out of the woodwork after the General Services Administration found that the LEED-certified Federal Building in Youngstown, Ohio, was lacking on the energy ...