Tag: Sustainable-Design
Sustainable Design On Display: Garden Experience Reaches Construction Milestones
Longwood Gardens reached a milestone in its 17-acre transformation of its core area of conservatory gardens.
Cathedral School For Boys Unveils Expanded, Reinvented “Heart”
An addition and renovation at the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco adds a new modern element and creates valuable indoor and outdoor spaces.
Blu Dot’s New San Francisco Store Is Model Of Adaptive Reuse
Design retailer Blu Dot's newest location is an example of sensitivity to local context, as well as a showcase for adaptive reuse and sustainable design.
How Life Science Companies Can Commit To Carbon Neutrality
See some of the initial considerations facility managers have during zero carbon projects in life sciences facilities.
Restrooms That Recapture Water And Waste
At Georgia Tech, green restrooms inside a new campus building include composting toilets.
Innovation, Safety, And Sustainable Building Design
For commercial buildings, a question endures: Do you build “green” or do you build to achieve desired performance? From a recent industry talk, experts at Owens Corning offer six takeaways to consider.
GBCI’s Parksmart Reaches 100 Registered Parking Facilities
Building owners and parking operators are rethinking parking structure design and operation to support more sustainable mobility.
Brock Environmental Center Wins SBIC Top Honors
Chesapeake Bay Foundation facility earns Honor Award in 2016 Beyond Green™ High-Performance Building and Community Awards.
ICC Announces Availability of New Green Building Code
The International Green Construction Code has been designed and released as the path to safe, sustainable, economical construction.
President Talks About Better Buildings Initiative (UPDATED)
President Obama has unveiled his plan to make America’s commercial buildings more energy- and resource-efficient over the next decade.
FRIDAY FUNNY: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Hotel????
Guests at Treehotel, which offers rooms incorporated into their natural surroundings, may need more than the most accurate satellite system to find their rooms in the sky.
Singapore Masters Program Encourages Sustainable FM
The need for the course has arisen out of the increasing call for more sustainable cities, especially in tropical zones such as Singapore, where more than 50% of carbon dioxide emissions can be attributed to buildings.
FM Issue: The Green Building Landscape
Guest Contributor Kevin Stover explains why this one aspect of the commercial real estate market continues to grow at a rapid pace.