I am excited to make an important announcement: GBIG has entered into a strategic partnership with the Green Building Council of Australia.
This partnership means that GBCA’s Green Star-certified projects will now appear in GBIG with the highest level of branding a …
By Jeremy Sigmon on
25 Mar 2015 •
openbook 4 minute read
Yesterday, the USGBC Northern California Chapter and its partners hosted the 12th annual Water Conservation Showcase in San Francisco. It was filled to the brim with exhibitors, green building professionals, students, water systems engineers, government representative …
We are excited to announce the release of new features for the Green Building Information Gateway (GBIG) available exclusively for USGBC members and LEED professionals. These new features will allow professionals to connect to the 1.3 million activities currently availa …
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 …
Remember “The Princess and the Pea” by Hans Christian Anderson?
Trailblazing engineer P. Ole Fanger often cited that fairy tale in his presentations on the state of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) research and practice. Dr. Fanger gently lampooned conventional …
By GBIG Staff on
24 Feb 2015 •
openbook 2 minute read
Renewable sources of energy are slated to comprise an increasing share of energy generation in the United States, and a larger number of distributed generation systems are being installed each year. This summer, Gretchen Heberling served as a MAP Sustainable Energy Fell …
By Joyce Lee on
13 Feb 2015 •
openbook 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 …
By Jeremy Sigmon on
09 Feb 2015 •
openbook 2 minute read
Last week, the New Buildings Institute (NBI) released their second annual list of buildings in the U.S. and Canada with verified zero net energy use (ZNE). Great news: the list is growing! (view list) What’s more, of the 39 verified energy-neutral-verified build …
By Sean McMahon on
06 Feb 2015 •
openbook 2 minute read
This week, USGBC released its list of the Top 10 States for LEED in 2014. The annual list ranks U.S. States based on the amount of LEED certified square feet per person over the past year. For the second year running Illinois took the top spot with 174 projects, and 42 …
The world’s R&D investment of $1.6 trillion per year plays a big role in advancing what we know, what we are capable of doing, and how well we do it. Along the way, we come to believe that, well, we’re pretty smart. However, our knowledge pales in comparison to …
