Q&A: Skanska’s Beth Heider Discusses WGBC Study

By Jessie Fetterling
(06/19/2013)
In April, the World Green Building Council released The Business Case for Green Building study, which highlights why green building means good business and helps tackle the misperception that green building means more money.
 

FACILITY OF THE MONTH: Gov. Brown Calls ZNE Center ‘The Future’

By Jessie Fetterling
(06/12/2013)
The grand opening of the Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Center in San Leandro made history on May 30, as the facility became the first commercial building retrofit designed to meet the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) requirements for a zero net energy building.
 

Spotlight: UC Davis Opens Sustainable Winery Building

By Jessie Fetterling
(06/19/2013)
The University of California, Davis will soon be home to the first self-sustainable winery after celebrating the opening of the Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building on May 29. When the $4 million structure is fully equipped, it will allow the adjacent teaching and research winery, brewery and food-processing facility for the school’s Department of Viticulture and Enology to be completely self-sustainable, using energy and water captured on site.
 

CANstruction Promotes Building for the Hungry

By Dana Barbine, Array Architects
(06/12/2013)
Sometimes green building applies to social responsibility, and Array Architects took that seriously at the Philadelphia CANstruction 2013 in April. CANstruction is a non-profit organization that holds annual design and build competitions to construct giant-sized structures made entirely of canned goods in major cities.

PODCAST: Q&A with Allison McKenzie

By Jessie Fetterling
(05/28/2013)
Allison McKenzie, leading design architect and director of sustainability for Cincinnati-based architecture firm SHP Leading Design, will present at NeoCon for the third time June 10-12 in Chicago.