Twelve | West: Portland, OR
How do you foster vitality and development in an emerging urban neighborhood?
Northwest Maritime Center: Port Townsend, WA
The Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend, Wash., engages visitors in the adventure that is traditional and contemporary maritime life with sailing classes and a large boat building and repair facility.
Waterloo Regional Police Investigative Services Building: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
This Canadian police facility demonstrates how innovative sustainable design can significantly reduce energy use and costs while incorporating the security and design requirements ...
Indiana Tech Wilfred Uytengsu Senior Center: Fort Wayne, IN
The renovation of this pre-Civil War era building demonstrates the potential for significant energy savings when historical structures are made “super efficient.”
Hood River Middle School Music and Science Building: Hood River, OR
Before construction of the Hood River Middle School Music and Science Building, music students practiced in an old bus barn outbuilding and science students conducted experiments in a lab with outdated equipment.
Dr. David Suzuki Public School: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Usually school district budgets limit the extent of energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies that can be included in high performing schools.
Adobe Headquarters: San Jose, CA
Prompted by the California energy crisis of 1999 – 2001, managers at Adobe Systems' San Jose, Calif., headquarters sought to reduce energy use by 10%.
Manitoba Hydro Place: Winnipeg, Canada
Manitoba Hydro, the province's sole energy provider, began planning for a new, energy-efficient headquarters in 2002. The design team soon realized that the extreme climate ...
Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory Research Support Facility: Golden, CO
When the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) decided to move 800 staff out of leased space into a new office building on its Golden, Colo., campus, it used that opportunity to build a living lab for best practices in net zero energy performance based on DOE and NREL research.
Concord Retrofit House: Concord, MA
The American Foursquare, a Sears, Roebuck & Co. kit home, was a staple of small American towns between 1908 and 1940. This article describes a project to renovate ...
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