KFC Australia has adopted a forward-thinking and progressive approach to rolling out its sustainable building program across their company-owned and franchise development network. Their ambition is to design and build all new, company owned,…

The Green Key Eco-Rating Program, the lodging industry’s certification program of choice, has been renovated, and we are pleased to announce that version 3.0 (V3) is now available!

The move to V3 is all part of Green Key Global’s…

Masonite Architectural published an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its wood door products, bringing greater environmental transparency to the wood door production process. SCS Global Services (SCS)conducted the independent assessment…

Masonite Architectural vient de publier une Déclaration environnementale de produit (DEP) pour ses portes en bois, apportant une plus grande transparence environnementale au processus de production des portes en bois. SCS Global Services (SCS) a…

Without a dramatic change in the way built environments are designed, constructed, and operated, the world has no chance of adequately addressing climate change...

Water conservation is nothing new. Many organizations in this space have encouraged hotels to conserve water for years – we even wrote about it for World Water Day last year. We have seen many hotels update their fixtures to ensure that they have…

The Miami-Dade County building code requires commercial buildings to enclose their first 30 feet in impact-resistant glass so as to withstand damage from high winds and flying objects during a hurricane. The developers of Miami’s 1450 Brickell…

The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) and the World Resources Institute (WRI)-led Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA) – a public-private partnership launched under the United Nations Secretary-General’s SE4All Initiative – have joined forces…

California-based SCS Global Services has developed a highly integrated approach to sustainably built environments, providing third-party certification, auditing, testing, standards development and support services geared toward full supply chain…

The workplace is in a state of major transition globally, with words like wellness, health, energy efficiency and sustainability now synonymous with the office. Combined with increasing evidence of the benefits of sustainable building design, the…

Siemens is making the world's second tallest office building even greener. Representatives of Taipei 101 and Siemens recently signed a memorandum of understanding that paves the way for the installation of Siemens Navigator, a cloud-based…

The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded LEED® Gold certification to the restaurant corridor at The Park, MGM Resorts International’s newly-opened outdoor dining and entertainment district.

7 Ways Hoteliers Can Operate A More Sustainable Property While Achieving ROI

The Earth’s natural resources, whether it’s the air, water, soils, geology or ecosystems around us, sustain all life on earth. These resources, sometimes termed ‘natural capital’, provide us with a vast range of services, from the more obvious…

CBRE and TAIPEI 101 have ushered in a new era for international green buildings, becoming the highest scoring LEED v4 project in the world to-date, and the first to reach the 90 points threshold. TAIPEI 101 appointed CBRE’s Sustainability Asia team…

Sodexo, the world leader in Quality of Life Services, announced today that all of its directors of facility management (FM) in the K-12 schools it serves across the U.S. have completed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Indoor Air…

Living Building Challenge 3.1 is the latest release of the LBC Standard. This version is a tweak to the 3.0 iteration, which had major updates and was released in 2014.

Understanding environmental law and the potential damage to capital value of environmental risk is critical for overseas investors in the UK. Julie Townsend, Senior Director in Environmental Consultancy explains the differences between UK and…

Architecture can represent the perfect marriage of form and function, and you would be hard-pressed to find a better example of that than in the design of the geodesic dome home.