Articles Tagged with ''sustainable design ''

The Building for Tomorrow Summit announced that Tooey Courtemanche, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Procore Technologies will headline the summit’s keynote session.

Architecture students from The Catholic University of America will build a massive floating spaceframe in the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., using sustainable materials and new technology that was designed in part by a student and professor at the University.

LionGlass, a stronger and more sustainable glass invented at Penn State, may soon be developed for windows and windshields, thanks to a new partnership with North America’s largest architectural glass manufacturer Vitro Architectural Glass.

The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has awarded 42 winning projects in the 2025 Brick in Architecture Awards, the world’s leading design competition featuring fired-clay brick. 

Arcadis has appointed Alec Zaballero as Principal in its New York Retail Design Studio.

The Coalition for Sustainable Roofing announced that Ellen Breipohl Thorp, CAE, president and managing director of COSUR, has been appointed Chair of the Consultative Council of the National Institute of Building Sciences.

While collecting "disclosure" documents proved easy enough for project teams, it turned out that LEED v4 was a bit ahead of the curve on the "optimization" side. Frankly, the industry lacked a common framework to facilitate rigorous, standardized, and streamlined workflows to achieve optimization. Simply put, the industry was not quite ready. It is ready now.

Wells Fargo’s new campus in the Las Colinas development of Irving, Texas, is a major step forward in sustainability. The campus isn’t just pursuing LEED™ Platinum certification: it is net-positive, generating more energy than it consumes — the first campus of its size to do so.

To design a space conducive for play and exercise, the project team knew the facility’s interior must deliver abundant access to beneficial natural light.

NEU: An ACI Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete, announced the release of a new publication, The Low-Carbon Concrete Guide: Materials.