Category: USGBC News

  • Healthy, Sustainable Interior Design: A Conversation with ASID

    We’re surrounded by interior design. Take a look around you: For those of you reading this blog from your office, coffee shop down the street, or living room at home, everything from your overhead lighting to flooring represents a design decision. Given that we spend upwards of 90 percent of our time indoors, these decisions…

  • Evolving LEED for Existing Buildings at BOMA’s Every Building Conference & Expo

    Lauren Riggs, LEEP® AP Manager, LEED and Building Performance Partnership U.S. Green Building Council This Tuesday, I participated in a panel at BOMA’s Every Building Show in Seattle, WA. The topic: The Evolution of LEED for Existing Buildings: O…

  • Evolving LEED for Existing Buildings at BOMA’s Every Building Conference & Expo

    Lauren Riggs, LEEP® APManager, LEED and Building Performance PartnershipU.S. Green Building CouncilThis Tuesday, I participated in a panel at BOMA’s Every Building Show in Seattle, WA. The topic: The Evolution of LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance. Now, you’d think that we would have shared a lovely timeline of how LEED for Existing Buildings…

  • Stand Up and Cheer, the EBies are Here!

    By Cecil ScheibNote: this blog is cross-posted from the Urban Green Council blogOn Thursday, June 28, the first annual EBie Awards were held at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square. The EBies are a nationwide, juried competition that celebrates increased sustainability in existing buildings (thus, EBies) and the people behind these improvements. Close to…

  • Stand Up and Cheer, the EBies are Here!

    By Cecil Scheib Note: this blog is cross-posted from the Urban Green Council blog On Thursday, June 28, the first annual EBie Awards were held at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square. The EBies are a nationwide, juried competition that celebrates incre…