Tag: green
Extended Care to Reduce Energy Use
Boston – Sudbury Pines Extended Care ended the year with a more than 25% reduction in energy use following a partnership with Eversource. The family-owned small business is now a more efficient year-round environment for guests, families and employees, all while reducing its environmental impact and saving $18,000 in yearly energy costs. The energy efficiency […]
This Past Decade Has Produced a Sustainability Shift
Submitted by The Ashkin Group Channel Islands Harbor, CA – The past decade is when sustainability came of age, according to Steve Ashkin, president of The Ashkin Group. “There has been what I call a ‘sustainability shift.’ More companies now realize that sustainability, cost savings, risk aversion, and business growth, all go hand in hand,” […]
Mass. Clean Energy Industry Grows For Ninth Consecutive Year
Boston – The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) announced the state’s clean energy sector has continued its trend of upward growth, adding 1,069 workers to the clean energy workforce between 2018 and 2019. The figures, released as part of MassCEC’s 2019 Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Report, found that the industry now employs over 111,836 workers […]
GBI Seeks Buildings to Pilot Green Globes for Existing Buildings 2019
National – Green Building Initiative (GBI) began a revision process early in 2019 to create Green Globes for Existing Buildings (EB) 2019, a significant update to GBI’s Green Globes program for in-use buildings. The update includes parallel content, as applicable, from the published ANSI/GBI 01-2019 Green Globes Assessment Protocol for Commercial Buildings, which is focused […]
Breakthrough Tool Empowers Users to Reduce Embodied Carbon
Atlanta – The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool launched in public beta version at Greenbuild, gives the building industry a powerful means to take action on an area of growing concern: embodied carbon emissions of building materials. This free, open-access tool, based on the industry’s first database of digitized Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), […]
Deerfield Academy’s Fieldhouse Achieves LEED Gold Certification
Deerfield, MA – Skanska, a global construction and development firm, recently announced that Deerfield Academy’s new fieldhouse has achieved LEED Gold certification. Regarded for its impressive architecture and design by Sasaki, the complex also recently received the Honor Award for Excellence in Architecture from AIA New England. In line with Skanska’s staunch commitment to environmental […]
Providence School Breaks Ground
Providence, RI – Lincoln School has broken ground on a state-of-the-art Little School expansion, a 4,700sf facility that stands as a testament to the school’s best-in-class Little School and Early Childhood program. Little School, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, offers boys and girls 6 weeks to 3 years old Reggio-Emilia inspired instruction with […]
ULI’s Greenprint Center Releases Report on Embodied Carbon
Washington – The Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Greenprint Center for Building Performance has released a new report, “Embodied Carbon in Buildings Materials for Real Estate,” explaining how reducing embodied carbon in the construction process can save developers money and help mitigate the impacts of climate change. Greenprint is a worldwide alliance of leading real estate […]
E&O Announces Commitments
Hartford, CT – Developers of Connecticut’s first offshore wind farm, Eversource and Ørsted (E&O), have announced their economic development commitments and community contributions as part of the Constitution Wind project bid, which was submitted to the state in late September in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) for offshore wind energy generation. E&O says […]
Green and Sustainable Remediation: A Decade Behind us With More to Come
by Scott Anderson The Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF) is a collective of remediation practitioners focused on advancing the science and integration of sustainability into the design and construction industry. SURF promotes the use of sustainable practices during the investigation, construction, remediation, redevelopment, and monitoring of contaminated sites, with the objective of balancing economic viability, conserving […]
