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The New Orleans Bioinnovation Center (NOBIC) was a long time coming. From the moment the project began the planning phase in 2002, it was plagued by rising construction costs and fund-raising complexities. The owners had reclaimed a brownfield site in the burgeoning biotechnology dist...
The U.S. government started building green long before the private sector caught on. Saving money by saving energy was always important, but federal agencies took a much broader approach as far back as the mid-1990s: the Navy's first green-building policy also emphasized low-impact ma...
The U.S. government started building green long before the private sector caught on. Saving money by saving energy was always important, but federal agencies took a much broader approach as far back as the mid-1990s: the Navy's first green-building policy also emphasized low-impact ma...
Kate Torgersen pops a bite-size, protein-packed Clif Shot Rok into her mouth and takes a sip from her pink Nalgene water bottle. "Sorry, I just went on a four-mile run," Torgersen, assistant communications manager at Clif Bar & Company, explains as she prepares to lead a tour of her c...
The U.S. government started building green long before the private sector caught on. Saving money by saving energy was always important, but federal agencies took a much broader approach as far back as the mid-1990s: the Navy's first green-building policy also emphasized low-impact ma...
Still under way are negotiations with the local utility and the state Department of Health to designate the building as its own water district. If granted this status, the Bullitt will use rainwater collected from the roof and stored in a 56,000-gallon basement cistern to supply showe...
The stats on occupant comfort are disappointing, and green buildings are no exception. Consider, for example, heating and cooling performance by central HVAC equipment under automated control. The thermal-comfort standard of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Condi...
