While it’s easy to explain the benefits of energy efficiency to building owners, it’s much more difficult to ensure their facilities continue to perform at peak performance while you’re working to ...

As buildings face tougher climate demands, green certifications are shifting from checklists to real performance. Here's how standards are changing—and why.

The text of the Living Building Challenge (LBC) certification system reads more like a manifesto than a green building standard. The document asks project teams to “imagine a building designed and ...

The Phius Standard is updated every three years to reflect market and materials changes and other variables, with the 2024 standard update to be rolled out this summer, said Rader. Image courtesy of ...

Since the start of the Living Building Challenge in 2006, over 70 projects have registered for Living Building Certification. To achieve this rating, a Living Building must generate all of its own ...

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building received the highest rating Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum certification for its implementation of practical and measurable ...

The University of Massachusetts’ John W. Olver Design Building has earned LEED Gold certification, adding to the already extensive list of accolades it has been awarded since opening in 2017. LEED ...

The Living Building Challenge is one tough building standard, probably the toughest in the world. There have not been a lot of buildings completed that have made it through, and Desert Rain is the ...