Hillcrest Presbyterian Church in Seattle found itself in an awkward position. Its congregation had decreased, but remained in a large well-loved, but inefficient facility. At the same time, Westside School was about to lose its lease. A plan was born: the church would co-locate with another church and Westside would reinvent the facility as a school.
Harvard University chose to breathe new life into the existing Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building as a case study to develop the laboratory of the future within an existing building.
Henry County Public Schools sought and found an alternative funding method: a guaranteed energy savings contract (or performance contract) as a funding mechanism for school improvements.
One of the most important aspects of this three-year renovation began when the construction ended.
At the Locust Trace AgriScience Center, students learn agriculture by doing.
The daylight-filled three-story UC Davis Health and Wellness Center offers physical and mental health services from dermatology to stress reduction strategies for the campus’ 30,000 students.
A splashing outdoor water feature might seem like a frivolous luxury in a desert community like the Phoenix suburb of Chandler, Ariz. But Chandler City Hall’s courtyard waterfall ...
When McCormick & Company wanted to reduce its environmental impact and energy bills, the facility team sought to improve the energy efficiency of its distribution center in Belcamp, Md.
The RedLINK wireless controller from Mitsubishi Electric provides zoning and temperature control capabilities for the company's lines of commercial and residential split-ductless or ducted cooling and heating systems. RedLINK uses radio waves rather than infrared, extending its range and…
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.
The cold storage facility was the first warehouse to earn the ENERGY STAR and reduced its annual energy use by 25% over four years.
The Sustainable Urban Science Center, a classroom/lab building that is part of a Quaker school in Philadelphia, is designed with the goal of capturing students' interest ...
Colorado's Poudre School District reduces energy use as well as construction costs and time by using a prototype design that is progressively improved ...
This Seattle commercial office building relies on passive strategies for cooling. Advanced building simulation tools allowed the building team to ...
The 900,000 ft2 CSOB Headquarters is one of the Czech Republic's largest, most sustainable and most energy-efficient buildings. Tanks in the basement store ...
The design and construction firm Stellar compares the performance of a LEED® Silver office building on its headquarters campus with an older office building ...
Plenty of barriers can derail sustainability efforts that involve a tenant, building manager and owner. But the building team at Burns & McDonnell's World Headquarters ...
McDonald's built an energy-efficient headquarters building in suburban Chicago in 1988. The company has continued improving the performance of ...
Energy savings for four similar office buildings in the Houston area started with planting native vegetation on one roof. Designers found that the roof's added insulation ...
This building harnesses the natural resources of Denver's climate. The nine-story atrium provides daylight to the lobby and internal offices, while parabolic sails ...
The California Department of Public Health's Building P has been demonstrating since 2005 that sustainable design benefits taxpayers, building users and the environment.
Golden Hill Office Center is a 1980s building that outperformed conventionally designed office buildings of the era with respect to energy use. Twenty-eight years later, Golden Hill continues to outperform the majority of contemporary office buildings. In fact, the original systems still work so well that Golden Hill was awarded a 99 ENERGY STAR rating in 2010.
In the competitive world of commercial real estate, why would an owner pursue sustainable design and its increased initial costs?
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