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Zeroing In

It was a different era in 1997, when Portland, Ore.-based New Buildings Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes energy performance improvements in commercial buildings, was founded. LEED and ENERGY STAR® buildings, Living Buildings, market adoption of renewable energy to any measurable degree—all were yet to come. “Reducing energy use was almost exclusively driven by utility […]

11 / 05 / 18

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Net-Zero Design

Architectural design and build are art forms of a functional sort, the kind that balance creativity with budget constraints.  Perhaps if budgets weren’t an issue, there’d be nothing but beautiful, environmentally-friendly buildings. More realistically, sustainable design for the earth must also be sustainable for the company’s bottom line. According to Scientific American, homes and commercial […]

09 / 05 / 12