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Course Preview: Reaching Triple Platinum: Skanska Sweden’s New Headquarters

By Melanie Share on 12 Aug 2015 • 1 minute read

With Education @USGBC you can grow your green building knowledge online, anytime. Ready to take your knowledge to the next level? Check out the preview below of this month's featured course, Reaching Triple Platinum: Skanska Sweden’s New Headquarters, created b …

Adelaide’s Newest Office Gets the Green Star Tick of Approval

By Robert Milagre on 07 Aug 2015 • 4 minute read

Adelaide’s newest office, 185 Pirie Street in the thriving Hindmarsh Square Precinct, ticks all the boxes for A Grade buildings. Designed using computer simulation modelling, the building’s design is energy- and water-efficient and provides a high performance wor …

LEED Project Spotlight: USCE Shopping Mall in Belgrade

By Joseph Crea on 27 May 2015 • 2 minute read

After three years, the Ušće Shopping Mall, which straddles old and new Belgrade, became the first existing building in Serbia to receive LEED certification and is one of the first LEED EBOM shopping centers in Europe. The mall is a beautiful showcase of sustainabili …

Building Profile: Porter School of Environmental Studies

By Gahl Sorkin Spanier on 11 May 2015 • 7 minute read

The Porter School of Environmental Studies was founded in 2000 with the generous support of Dame Shirley Porter. It was founded as a response to the growing demand for research specifically dedicated to the multifaceted characteristics of environmental issues. In 200 …

Keeping the Edge in Atlanta

By Nicolette Mueller on 16 Apr 2015 • 5 minute read

Editor's note: This article was originally published on USGBC.org. USGBC awarded Dagmar Epsten, LEED Fellow and CEO of Epsten Group, a LEED Platinum plaque for her LEED v4 Existing Buildings project—but it’s just part of her collection of Platinum plaques. We sat …

CVS Goes Platinum

By Serena Wray on 03 Apr 2015 • 4 minute read

Design a retail store that can achieve LEED® Platinum Certification. That was CVS Health’s ambitious goal back in 2010. The retail giant believes that the sustainability of the planet is linked to better health for their customers. Their commitment to the caus …

Building Award-Winning Energy Intelligence at the Australian Technology Park

By Peter Dickinson on 09 Mar 2015 • 3 minute read

The Australian Technology Park (ATP), located in the suburbs of Sydney, is a business and technology center that serves as an incubator for high-tech startups and brings together research and commercial interests in a symbiotic environment. Five distinct buildings make …

A LEED First Aproaching It’s First Decade: Grand Rapids Art Museum

By Joyce Lee on 13 Feb 2015 • 3 minute read

The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), in 2005, took to challenge two myths circulating art museums at the time and tried to offer real solutions. The first was the “Bilbao myth” that art museum architecture should be an attention grabbing art object in itself in order …

Building Profile: The Alliance Center

By Kim Hughes on 26 Jan 2015 • 3 minute read

The Alliance Center has been a multi-tenant office building since 2004 and has historically housed over 35 tenants working on sustainability in a converted century-old warehouse. Previous building improvements resulted in the Center achieving two LEED certifications (Ex …

Building Profile: UIC’s Douglas Hall

By Lisa Sanzenbacher on 05 Jan 2015 • 3 minute read

In 2009, the University of Illinois at Chicago's (UIC) Douglas Hall underwent a massive renovation and became incredibly energy efficient. So much so that the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) awarded UIC with a LEED-Gold rating. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environ …

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