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Tag: Sustainable Buildings

  • Architecture for Humanity co-founders to step down

    Cameron Sinclair After 15 years of leadership, Architecture for Humanity (AFH) co-founders Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr are stepping down while the organization launches into a new five-year strategic plan.  Stohr, who currently serves as board advisor, will be leave the organization September 30 and return to a career in television and web production. Sinclair, who currently…

  • Understanding Environmental Product Declarations

      This summer, Sustainable Industries launched a three-part series on Environmental Product Declarations, or EPDs – specifically looking at what’s new, what’s now, and what’s next.   The first article in the series, “ABCs of EPDs” by Climate Earth co-founder Chris Erickson, provided readers with must-know information on EPDs — what they are, how they are…

  • Busted! Top 10 smart building myths

    Smart buildings have been proven to save energy, streamline facilities management and prevent expensive equipment failures. Yet to many property owners and investors, the value of smart buildings remains a mystery. In the following post, experts from Jones Lang LaSalle(JLL) aim to debunk the top 10 misconceptions they encounter through their experience working with clients around…

  • UC Berkeley researchers innovate the office space

    Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are working to cut commercial building energy consumption while giving office workers an atypical sense of control over their thermal environments. Armed with a recently announced $1.6 million grant from the California Energy Commission, researchers from UC Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment (CBE) are testing and promoting a new set of tools that will…

  • No jive Tofurky

    Tofurky, the 33-year-old maker of the widely recognized line of meat-free, meat-like products, has cooked up the second LEED Platinum food processing facility in the country, and the sixth such facility in the world. Turtle Island Foods’ new $10 million, 33,000-square-foot plant in the outdoorsy Columbia River Gorge community of Hood River, OR, was constructed using 80…