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.

Mass Timber

5 lessons in water mitigation for mass timber projects

Sustainability leaders from Skanska, RDH, and Polygon share five tips for successful water mitigation in mass timber construction.

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.

BD+C Staff | Apr 12, 2013

Gaige Building at Penn State certified LEED Gold

Alvin H. Butz, Inc. recently completed a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®)…

BD+C Staff | Apr 10, 2013

Food store benefits from green wall technology

GSky Plant Systems, Inc., a leading provider of vertical Green Walls in North America and now the…

BD+C Staff | Apr 10, 2013

Cladding and wall system creates fast result for military justice facility

Several innovations in sustainable, lean construction techniques have been gaining broad adoption…

Julie S. Higginbotham | Apr 10, 2013

UMass Med School adds half million sf of life sciences space

Suffolk Construction recently completed construction of the $400 million Albert Sherman Center, a…

Apr 10, 2013

23 things you need to know about charter schools

Charter schools are growing like Topsy. But don’t jump on board unless you know what you’re getting into.

BD+C Staff | Apr 9, 2013

National Synchrotron Light Source II achieves LEED Gold

The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven…

Apr 5, 2013

Snøhetta design creates groundbreaking high-tech library for NCSU

The new Hunt Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, incorporates advanced building features, including a five-story robotic bookBot automatic retrieval system that holds 2 million volumes in reduced space.

Apr 5, 2013

Commercial greenhouse will top new Whole Foods store in Brooklyn

Whole Foods and partner Gotham Greens will create a 20,000-sf greenhouse atop one of the retailer's Brooklyn supermarkets. Expected to open this fall, the facility will supply produce to nine Whole Foods stores in metro New York City.

Apr 5, 2013

Projected cost for Apple's Campus 2 balloons to $5 billion

Campus 2, Apple Inc.'s proposed ring-shaped office facility in Cupertino, Calif., could cost $5 billion to build, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Apr 2, 2013

Green building consultant explores the truth about green building performance in new book

A new book from leading sustainability, green building author and expert Jerry Yudelson challenges assumptions about the value of sustainable design and environmentally-friendly buildings.