Bright Lights Cost Big Bucks
But Qualite Sports Lighting—a specialist in high-wattage lighting—has developed a new way to use electronic-ballast technology to lower energy consumption on even the largest light fixtures. More
Honolulu’s New Eco-Community
A new neighborhood by Armstrong Builders embraces the Hawaiian lifestyle and pushes green building forward on Oahu More
The Anti-Secret Lab
University of Houston’s research and teaching complex is sustainable and beautiful, but more than anything it facilitates collaboration through its open design More
“We basically created super teams of people with very few weaknesses.”
KAI Design & Build’s Michael B. Kennedy on how building design can benefit from business acumen—and vice versa More
Taking Cues From Native Culture
In the East Bay, healthcare and affordable housing for Native Americans are under one roof in a green, community-centric building designed by Pyatok Architects More
Family Circus
Focus groups told William Ryan Homes it should offer organization and calm to ever-busier families, and despite a tough market, its new homes deliver More
Writing the Book on Healthy Spaces
President Michael Miller and MS&R’s Jeffrey Scherer take questions about Northland College’s almost impossibly efficient library More
Mediated Learning Center
Sensitive equipment? No problem. WSP Flack + Kurtz’s Built Ecology team helps optimize De Anza College’s newest media building—hopefully for LEED Platinum status. More
Back to the Basics of Louis Sullivan
AltusWorks uses sustainability principles to restore a famed storefront on Michigan Avenue More
“Preventive maintenance is what we called sustainability a decade ago.”
Al Skodowski speaks about Transwestern’s winning real-estate formula and the greener zeitgeist being adopted by tenants More