By Jessie Fetterling
(04/30/2013)
(04/30/2013)
On March 12, the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) released its first State of Our Schools report to raise awareness about the need to modernize PK-12 school facilities to meet current health, safety and educational standards.
(04/29/2013)
On April 16, The Princeton Review published The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition, the company’s fourth release of the free guidebook, which highlights 320 environmentally responsible campuses in the U.S. and two in Canada.
(03/13/2013)
This month, the USGBC is having its sixth — and likely final — public comment period for LEED v4, the latest update to the LEED rating systems, which will be voted on this summer.
(09/12/2012)
The green building revolution might not get a lot of air time, due to the relatively blasé headlines it tends to create, but change is still occurring, even if its mostly taking place in the background of public perception.
(06/29/2012)
The EBie Awards were created by the U.S. Green Building Council's New York chapter, Urban Green Council, but are open to projects throughout the country. The EBie Awards recognize significant and measurable environmental performance improvements in existing buildings among building owners and operators, property managers, engineers, consultants, retro-commissioning agents and lighting designers, according to the USGBC.
(06/14/2012)
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the USGBC’s Northern California Chapter (USGBC-NCC) has launched the California Best Buildings Challenge, which will recruit California businesses in a competition to achieve a 20 percent reduction in energy, water and waste in their buildings in just two years.
(06/06/2012)
The U.S. Green Building Council has recently announced that the planned revision of the LEED green building system that was due later this year is now delayed until June 1, 2013.
(02/15/2012)
A newly revised American National Standard has raised its benchmarks for evaluating the energy efficiency of high-performance commercial green buildings.
(12/14/2011)
LEED-certified existing buildings surpass newly constructed LEED buildings by 15 million square feet on a cumulative basis, the U.S. Green Building Council announced.
(09/22/2011)
The U.S. Green Building Council named the recipients of the 2011 annual Leadership Awards, a program aimed at recognizing organizations and individuals who signify vision, leadership and commitment to the evolution of green building design and construction.
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