Tag: Sustainable Buildings

  • The green edge

    This week, the Natural Resources Defense Council released “The Green Edge: How Commercial Property Investment in Green Infrastructure Creates Value” — a first-ever illustrative and well-documented report that helps answer that question by drawing from all available published material to capture the multitude of tangible, monetizable benefits that green infrastructure investments (trees, rain gardens, and porous…

  • Cool roofs rising

    Millions of dollars and massive amounts of fossil fuels are spent cooling homes and buildings covered by conventional roofs that absorb sunlight, get as hot as 185 degrees and radiate that heat …

  • Skanska USA names Elizabeth Heider chief sustainability officer

    Elizabeth Heider Skanska USA announced it has promoted Elizabeth Heider to the new position of chief sustainability officer, effective January 1. In this role, she will lead Skanska’s efforts to work in ways that support the triple bottom line of sustainability — environmental, social and economic health.  Heider has a 12-year tenure with Skanska, primarily as senior vice…

  • The problem with chemical flame retardants

    If you worked from the assumption that a majority of the more than 80,000 chemicals released by industry into the world have been tested for human and environmental safety, you’d be wrong. Dead wrong. Take as a prime example flame retardants. They’re everywhere. In our furniture. Our homes. Our bodies. Yet as pointed out by…

  • Energy efficiency interest up 116% globally

    The 2013 Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) study, conducted by the Johnson Controls Institute for Building Efficiency, analyzes the energy efficiency technologies, practices and investments made…