Sustainability

  • U.S. Mayors Endorse Green Building Code

    On June 14, the U.S. Conference of Mayors endorsed the International Green Construction Code, a new, comprehensive green building code authored by the International Code Council.

  • House Committee Approves Green Building Bill

    AIA report says GREEN Act could create or save as many as 140,000 design and construction jobs.

  • Biomass Boilers Are on the Rise

    Looking for an environmentally friendly way to warm your buildings? A gasifier just might be the ticket to a cleaner—and cheaper—heating system.

  • Sustainability, Brick by Brick

    A multilevel house featuring suites for diplomats and their families in Mexico; a center for visiting dignitaries in Maryland; a self-supporting scheme for interlocking bricks that would not require mortar; and a brick featuring an outer leaf panel designed to produce curvilinear shapes were among...

  • Green Online Energy Tools

    Given the proliferation of free or inexpensive sustainable design tools on the Web, ARCHITECT asked three green leaders to tell us their go-to gadgets.

  • Sustainable Design Is More Than Bells and Whistles

    Too often, green construction is about how smart a building's gadgets are. Instead, it should be about smart architecture.

  • Green Building to Support Nearly 8 Million Jobs

    A new report from USGBC and Booz Allen Hamilton shows green construction to contribute $554 billion to the U.S. GDP between 2009 and 2013

  • Organizations Promote Buildings' Sustainability

    Through a new memorandum of understanding, the Atlanta-based American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. and Portland, Ore.-based Green Building Initiative will work together to accelerate the adoption of sustainability principles in the built environment.

  • Display House Built With FSC-Certified Materials

    Portland, Ore.-based Forest Products Solutions unveiled the first FSC House trade-show display at the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo last November in Chicago.

  • Sustainability Committee Formed

    West Conshohocken, Pa.-based ASTM International has formed ASTM Committee E60 on Sustainability.