Northglenn, a Denver suburb, opens a net zero, all-electric city hall with a mass timber structure

Northglenn, Colo., a Denver suburb, has opened the new Northglenn City Hall—a net zero, fully electric building with a mass timber structure. The 32,600-sf, $33.7 million building houses 60 city staffers. Designed by Anderson Mason Dale Architects, Northglenn City Hall is set to become the first municipal building in Colorado, and one of the first in the country, to achieve the Core certification: a green building rating system overseen by the International Living Future Institute.

K-12 Schools

The importance of selecting healthy materials for K-12 projects

Clark Nexsen interior designers Anna Claire Beethoven and Brittney Just, CID, IIDA, LEED Green Associate, share why it is imperative to specify healthy building materials in K-12 schools.

Office Buildings

Fact sheet outlines benefits, challenges of thermal energy storage for commercial buildings

A U.S. Dept. of Energy document discusses the benefits and challenges of thermal energy storage for commercial buildings. The document explains how the various types of thermal energy storage technologies work, where their installation is most beneficial, and some practical considerations around installations.

Industrial Facilities

UK-based tire company plans to build the first carbon-neutral tire factory in the U.S.

ENSO, a U.K.-based company that makes tires for electric vehicles, has announced plans to build the first carbon-neutral tire factory in the U.S. The $500 million ENSO technology campus will be powered entirely by renewable energy. The first-of-its-kind tire factory aims to be carbon neutral without purchased offsets, using carbon-neutral raw materials and building materials.

Green | Jun 9, 2015

Fuel cell technology makes its way into energy generation

Demand for fuel cells, while modest, is growing, and cost savings are getting noticed.

A company is developing spray-on solar panels for windows

Green | Jun 8, 2015

Maryland tech firm is developing spray-on solar panels for windows

Made primarily out of hydrogen and carbon, the coating can turn see-through surfaces into solar panels.

Green | Jun 8, 2015

Diamond Schmitt Architects creates tool to compare energy use data across building types

The firm's new ecoMetrics tool allows for a comprehensive analysis of data from energy simulation models across a wide range of the company’s building types.

Multifamily Housing | May 30, 2015

Energy Department releases resources to assess building energy benchmarking policies, programs

The new handbook demonstrates methodologies using real data from New York City.

MVRDV Selected to Design High-Line Inspired Park ‘Seoul Skygarden’

Cultural Facilities | May 13, 2015

MVRDV selected to design High Line-inspired park in Seoul

The garden will be organized as a library of plants, which will make the park easier to navigate.

Green | Stantec | May 5, 2015

Top three 2030 Challenge trends

The growth of IPD is among the key takeaways from the USGBC Region 7 Conference.

Wood | Apr 26, 2015

Building wood towers: How high is up for timber structures?

The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad. But Building Teams around the world are starting to use more large-scale structural wood systems.