Water efficiency expert Mike Orlando from T&S Brass shares tips with Valerie Dennis Craven on how to be green and efficient with water use. He shares some eye-opening stats about water usage and what each building can do to help sustain t…

Water isn’t sustainable. There’s a limit to it. Monitoring its use is important for water conservation and money savings.
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The Stantec Tower is the tallest structure of its kind in western Canada. The mixed-use building is officially open for business and has already achieved several sustainability certifications.
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The University of Iowa’s new Voxman Music Building incorporates lighting fixtures and designs that allow students and staff to optimize musical harmony.
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GridOptimal, a new initiative aimed at creating better “grid citizens,” is developing metrics to analyze how buildings interact with the power grid.
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Emma Hughes, project manager for LEED, speaks with Janelle Penny about how project teams pursuing LEED certification for buildings now have a new option: LEED Zero. Learn more about this designation, including the requirements behind it and how it…

The launch of LEED Zero lets project teams add a net-zero designation to their LEED certification. Here’s what it takes to earn LEED Zero.
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With unique design features including a 99 percent vegetated roof, the newly expanded Gateway Arch Museum’s creative approach to sustainability has been recognized with LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Doug Pierce, director of Perkins+Wills Resilience Research Lab, discusses the Building Resilience Standard RELi, with BUILDINGS’ senior staff writer Janelle Penny.

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