Home on the Range is an office building shared by two nonprofit organizations: Northern Plains Resource Council and Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC). Formerly an uninsulated concrete block grocery store with few windows, the build…
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July 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Case Studies
You might know about Annette Stelmack — chair of ASID’s National Sustainable Design Council; named a “Top Ten Green Design Guru” by Innovative Home magazine; principal of the design firm Inspirit-llc; and co-author of the book Sustainable Res…
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July 19th, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, Case Studies
"Apparently an error in construction," the story says. Indeed.
Improper construction methods are believed to be the reason [for the] building collapse in Shanghai, according to a report from the investigation team. The investigation …
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July 5th, 2009 | Posted in Case Studies, The Industry
BuildingGreen’s Michael Wentz has been coordinating for some time with DOE on case studies of the green rebuilding of Greensburg, Kansas, which had 90% of its buildings destroyed by a tornado in 2007. He described the work in a blog post here last ye…
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July 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Books & Media, Case Studies
The EcoDorm at Warren Wilson College houses 36 students who are interested in environmental responsibility and want to live with like-minded students. The co-ed dormitory is one of a series of four dorms surrounding a common lawn.
Warren Wilso…
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June 30th, 2009 | Posted in Case Studies
The Lacks Cancer Center, the only dedicated comprehensive cancer center in western Michigan, supports all components of cancer care, including inpatient and outpatient care and traditional and complementary therapies.
The building houses 42 pr…
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June 30th, 2009 | Posted in Case Studies
The University of Denver’s College of Law houses one of the nation’s top environmental and natural resource law programs. The first LEED-certified law school in the nation, the facility offered the College an opportunity to design a building cons…
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June 30th, 2009 | Posted in Case Studies
Recently, I broke one of my long-standing rules and blogged about something BuildingGreen-related at my own blog. My Costanzian fears were indeed warranted, and I’ve been egged on to cross-post it to the Live blog. Here she is, warts and all: my unva…
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June 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Behind the Scenes, Books & Media, Case Studies, Miscellania, Product Talk, Q&A, The Industry
The newly published Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities (IAMU) Office and Training Headquarters is a great example of a municipal building that was built using green principles and is continually monitored for energy use and IEQ. They were ab…
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May 29th, 2009 | Posted in Case Studies
On Friday we rolled out a new look for the BuildingGreen Case Study page. As you can see in the image above, we added a map component that uses Google Maps to show the locations of the case studies. In addition, you can download an auto-updating …
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May 18th, 2009 | Posted in Case Studies