Climate change degrades buildings slowly but steadily

While natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires can destroy buildings in minutes, other factors exacerbated by climate change degrade buildings more slowly but still cause costly damage.

Sustainable Design and Construction

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.

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.

Sustainability | Feb 11, 2019

AEC firms practice what they preach

The advice about wellness firms dispense to clients in many cases has already been road tested to make their own workplaces healthier.

Market Data | Feb 4, 2019

U.S. Green Building Council announces annual Top 10 States for LEED Green Building in 2018

Illinois takes the top spot as USGBC defines the next generation of green building with LEED v4.1.

Sustainability | LPA | Feb 1, 2019

Designing a net zero aquatic center

Buildings can be designed to cut consumption and operate more efficiently, but the pools always make it difficult to achieve substantial savings.

The 9 Holmene islands of the coast of Denmark

Sustainability | Jan 30, 2019

Denmark to build nine industrial, energy-producing islands surrounded by a ‘nature belt’

The project will be located 10 km (6.2 miles) south of Copenhagen.

Green | Jan 28, 2019

This is the country’s greenest academic building

Perkins+Will designed the building.

Sustainability | Gensler | Nov 5, 2018

How the built environment can help the climate crisis

Our buildings and cities will have to experiment with new climate responsive forms, and in many cases, the built environment will require dramatic shifts to achieve true resilience and continue working towards a carbon-neutral society.