Over the last decade, the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program has established itself as the preeminent industry standard for rating green buildings. Despite LEED’s remarkable success, however, ...

What would happen if your engineering team stepped into another firm’s facilities with the goal of identifying energy inefficiencies? In the same vein, what would happen if engineers from another firm ...

The Hannaford Supermarket at 118 Cony St. in Augusta opened in 2009 as the first supermarket in North America to achieve Platinum LEED for Retail certification. If successful at the conclusion of a ...

The PAE building is the world's largest commercial Living Building and the only one engineered to survive a magnitude-7.5 quake with barely a scratch. One of several goals of the PAE Living Building ...

The International Living Future Institute taps an architect to serve as technical director for its Living Building Challenge. Kathleen Smith will lead the International Living Future Institute's ...

100-year-old building was challenge to fix To say the renovation and restoration of the Fannie Rose Building was extensive is an understatement. The designers, engineers and contractors who worked on ...