If you don’t have a building to certify, but you want to help others take their home or buildings to a new level of sustainability and environmental responsibility, you can. While homes and buildings are LEED certified, people can be individually LEED accredited —an achievement earned by tak...
Green Building Council (USGBC). The aim is to ensure that a building is energy efficient, healthy and safe. LEED certification also ensures that a structure's impact on the environment is minimal, conserves natural resources, and increases employee productivity while minimizing absenteeism.Thornsbury...
LEED-certified buildings were estimated to have generated$1.2 billion in energy savings, $149.5 million in water savings, $715.3 million in maintenance savings, and $54.2 million in waste savings. LEED-certified properties see lower annual operating costs, higher ROI in building costs, and an over...
you must apply for certification and submit the proper materials. If your project is approved, you can call your building LEED-certified, which increases its value and proves your commitment to the environment. While it might sound like a hassle to do this for each project...
Drawing from its work on the base building, the Gensler team crafted an interior design aimed to capture the optimistic energy of Bethesda’s downtown core. Translated across the 22-floor, 750,000-square-foot office building, this connective strategy makes a notable impact on the company’s op...
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Catalyse Urbaine’s team is comprised of architects, landscape architects, space designers and LEED-certified professionals. With its dual expertise in architecture and landscape architecture, the team offers its clients a global concept and a seamless integration of nature and architecture. ...
Green buildings are not just structures; they are a revolutionary approach to construction and living. They blend sustainability with innovation to create spaces that are as kind to the environment as they are to their inhabitants. Let’s explore what makes a building ‘green’ and why it’s ...
The focus on sustainable value and efficiency makes BREEAM certified developments attractive property investments and generates sustainable environments that enhance the wellbeing of the people who live and work in them. While building to meet BREEAM's enhanced standards may incur a capital cost this ...
Challenges remain with building global audiences, however. Most publications have only a handful of people focusing on stories outside of their headquarter country. Yet “in addition to getting the stories – you also have to build global and local networks so that the stories get distributed,”...