Recent decades and associated environmental changes have led to the rapid development of certification systems that are used to verify if a building is energy efficient. While in the beginning they ...

This week the U.S. Green Building Council announced LEED v5–A new standard for buildings to meet to receive a sustainability certification. The changes focus on decarbonization, quality of life, and ...

Water efficiency sometimes falls into the background in conversations about the climate crisis. Massive topics like renewables, greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation and electric vehicles often take ...

Kroon Hall, the new home of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has been awarded LEED Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, Yale University announced today. Under ...

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman will accept a LEED Silver Certificate for The Penfield apartment complex in a ceremony on Monday. The Penfield is a luxury 254-unit apartment complex located in downtown ...

Massachusetts tops the ranking of last year's “top 10 states for green building,” followed by Illinois and New York, according to the U.S. Green Building Council, which developed the popular LEED ...

The Clinton Presidential Center, in Little Rock, Arkansas, designed by Polshek Partnership and Hargreaves Associates received a rating of Two Green Globes from the ...

Hospital executives are increasingly growing more aware of the environmental importance of their buildings. Hospital facilities are expensive to run, and they are the most important physical asset ...