Buildings & Facilities
Buildings and Facilities
- Sports teams -- and their facilities -- face heated competition for the title of "greenest." The latest to score points for renewable energy is the Philadelphia Eagles, whose stadium will...
- Canny investment in energy efficiency retrofits could yield three times as much in energy savings in just 10 years, according to research from Deutsche Bank and The Rockefeller Foundation.
- An understanding of climate is essential to the successful design of comfortable buildings. But gaining that understanding is tough. Here's a drill-down look at two ways to translate climate data...
- By building its new data center for energy efficiency, eBay hopes to ready itself for larger data loads while reducing its future power bills.
- The health care giant that's pledged to green its facilities, energy and supply chain now sets a goal to reduce its carbon footprint.
- The sophisticated electronic components in race cars, fleet vehicles and the big rigs used for NASCAR will be fodder for an e-waste program the racing organization is introducing this season.
- While American consumers continue to view solar power, wind energy and greener cars favorably, overall support for clean energy concepts is slipping, Pike Research finds.
- The European capitals are among a handful of towns that can serve as models for the smart cities that will be needed as urban dwellers grow to 70 percent of the global population in coming decades.
- The CIO of the sustainability-minded design software firm walks through the strategy, hardware and software behind a data center retrofit that will save Autodesk $7 million a year.
- Today, improving buildings' energy efficiency is a rapidly growing industry blossoming with new business ideas and models. Here are some ways business can profit.
- Food waste isn't a problem generally associated with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, but the network of cafes and food service operations catering to VA facilities generates tons of it.
- Rooftop solar power will supply about 85 percent of the energy used by a distribution facility in New Jersey that serves metro New York.
- Although an energy audit is an extremely useful tool in the sustainability toolbox, it is also usually a labor- and cost-intensive process. But these four firms are helping to make them affordable...
- Cushman & Wakefield provides drill-down information on why San Francisco emerged as the top market for green building opportunities in the U.S. for two years in a row.
- A look at how this sector will evolve in the U.S. by the end of the decade in view of President Barack Obama's Better Buildings Initiative.
- A project aimed at making customers' utility data more easily accessible and understandable has already been embraced by a few leading utilities, and developers like Tendril and Opower are...
- The chocolate company is joining the many firms that are building landfill-free property portfolios.
- The furniture retailer expands its solar agenda in the U.S. yet again and adds more EV charging stations to its stores, while Hertz test drives wireless charging for electric cars.
- The head of the computer-assisted design firm talks about the ongoing revolution in how software can enable sustainable innovations in everything from electric cars to the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
- The co-op that brought sustainable farming to the dairy industry has adopted the latest twist in solar technology: windows embedded with solar cells that generate electricity and save energy by...
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