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Photo © Doug Edmunds
As Isn't: An efficient modernization transforms a small suburban home beyond ticky-tacky recognition. Photo © Robert Benson Photography
Pre School: At the Watkinson School, a pre-engineered building blends environmental science with ethics. Photo courtesy Enermodal Engineering
Enermodal Engineering Headquarters: Canada’s largest green building consulting firm is headquartered in the country's first triple LEED Platinum office (LEED for New Construction, Commercial Interiors, and Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance). Photo © Bruce Darmonte
Vai Avenue Residence: Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects crafts a simple bungalow in the suburbs of California with high-performance aspirations. Illustration by Emiliano Ponzi
Power Trips: Expanding renewable energy generation to a larger piece of the nation's electrical grid will be messy and costly, but not impossible. Photo © Iwan Baan
The Center of the Universe: A Toshiko Mori Architect-designed center for environmental systems testing helps green Syracuse's Rust Belt. Illustration by Gavin Potenza
The Next Frontier in Green Building: Studies show that occupant behavior can have a far greater impact on a building's energy use than previously anticipated.
Case Studies: Projects range from a municipal complex in the Arizona desert to a new elementary school in tornado-ravaged Greensburg. Trades Going Green: New training programs aim to change the mindsets of specialty contractors by teaching them about sustainable building systems and techniques. Retrofitting Suburbia: America takes back the bleak suburbs of yesterday and repurposes them into vibrant, interconnected, mixed-use communities. ![]() ![]() Activist for Urbanity: NYC planning commissioner Amanda Burden is helping to make the greatest city the greenest.
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Beacon of Well Being: We meet Barry Svigals in downtown New Haven to tour his firm's collaboration with Behnisch Architekten, the mixed use Park Street Clinical Laboratory. |
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