Reporting on Sustainably Built Environments from Bricks to Cities
At 900,000 sq. ft., the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus currently under construction in the city of Seattle will be one of Washington’s largest green office campuses. The finished headquarters complex will include two six-story office-buildings and a state-of-the-art visitor center. Designed by NBBJ and built by Sellen Construction, the campus is targeting LEED [...]
I happened to live in France back in 2002, and during my year there I noticed a pretty significant gap between sustainability as practiced in Europe in the US. In Europe, I was working with large public companies who were already integrating the implications of global warming and sustainbility into their businesses. In the US [...]
Showering is one of the major uses of domestic water. Showering is responsible for roughly 18% of indoor water use. But with a new kind of shower system invented in Australia, showering could, according to the manufacturer, use 4 times less water and save up to 87% of the energy used in typical showering. Australia [...]
It sounds like a war effort or some great new candy bar, but it has been ten years in the making. Yes, the Academy of Sciences museum finally opens in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. We’re totally jazzed to have this Green building icon finally opening up, with some of the old exhibits, the completely [...]
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