| NEWS | DESIGN | BUILDING | DESIGN TOOLS | ENVIRONMENT | CULTURE |
| ENVIRONMENT | ||
|
|
One Bryant Park, New York | |
|
|
Sustainable Site Selection for Schools | |
|
ENVIRONMENT THIS WEEK |
|
|
In the heart of Manhattan, across from the expansive Bryant Park at 42nd Street and Avenue of the Americas, is a landmark new skyscraper — a triple landmark, based on its sustainable and energy-saving design, its crystalline form, and its sheer size.
|
|
SUSTAINABLE SITE SELECTION FOR SCHOOLS In the case of a new school, the first job for the working group is selecting a site. All the decisions that go into making a sustainable campus or building follow. Location defines the impacts of development both to the site itself and to surrounding neighborhoods, transportation, habitat, and hydrology.
|
|
More Environment Germany's Green Light for Energy — Sydney Morning Herald, 2010.0714Europe Needs to Reduce Emissions by 30% — Financial Times, 2010.0714 LEED Homes May Not Be Less Toxic — Environmental Expert, 2010.0714 LEED Needs More Verification — Daily Journal of Commerce, 2010.0714 Renewing Towers and Building Legacies — Eye Weekly, 2010.0714 Vancouver's Olympic Village — Tyee, 2010.0714 Pairing Green Technologies — EcoGeneration, 2010.0714 The "New Ethanol" Cleans Up Coal. — Green Energy News, 2010.0714 Will "Solar Trees" Sprout in Parking Lots? — New York Times, 2010.0714 A Warm Atlantic Stokes Hurricane Fears — New York Times, 2010.0714 May the Best Flusher Win — New York Times, 2010.0714 The Lost Legacy of the Last Great Oil Spill — Nature, 2010.0714 Green Building Critical in Triple Bottom Line Accounting — Journal of Commerce, 2010.0713 U.K. Government under-Fire after Axing Green Improvements of Schools — Edie, 2010.0713 La Rochelle Celebrates the Opening of the Velux House — Sail World, 2010.0713 "Green" House Could Set Example — Omaha World-Herald, 2010.0713 China Faces Up to Groundwater Crisis — Nature, 2010.0713 H2Otel: Water-Powered Hotel Planned for Amsterdam — Inhabitat (blog), 2010.0712 Nevada Shaped by Fans of Air Conditioning — Las Vegas Sun, 2010.0712 Top 10 U.S. Cities for Green Job Seekers — TreeHugger (Blog), 2010.0712 Monitors Will Track Energy Use of 3 'Green' Homes in Syracuse — Syracuse Post-Standard, 2010.0712 Thinking Green When Shopping for a House — Smart Money, 2010.0712 Prefab Platinum Prescott Passive House Built on a Budget — TreeHugger (Blog), 2010.0712 UN's IPCC Tells Scientists to 'Keep a Distance from the Media' — NewsBusters, 2010.0711 Analysis Triples U.S. Plutonium Waste Figures — New York Times, 2010.0711 Arid Australia Sips Seawater, but at a Cost — New York Times, 2010.0711 One Washington Center in Gaithersburg Earns LEED Platinum-EB O&M — Citybizlist Atlanta, 2010.0709 Chinese Cities Adopt Low-Carbon Policies — Xinhua, 2010.0708 Cover the Roof in a Carpet of Grass to Save Energy — Irish Times, 2010.0708 Zero-Energy Office Building Opens in Colorado — Consulting-Specifying Engineer, 2010.0707 A Housing Project in Victoria That Embraces Nature — New York Times, 2010.0706 Report: U.S. Green Building Market Will Balloon to $173.5 Billion by 2015 — Fast Company, 2010.0702 Houston Rockets' Stadium Wins LEED Certification — Matter Network, 2010.0702 Could Copycat Technology Lead to More Hybrids? — Green Energy News, 2010.0702 New Orleans Slowly Embracing Sustainable Building Practices — EcoHome, 2010.0701 Advocating for Change — EDC, 2010.0701 Building Like a Tree — EDC, 2010.0701 A Model Neighbor — EDC, 2010.0701 Is the Government Rushing the Definition of Zero Carbon? — BD (Registration required), 2010.0626
Note: Pages will open in a new browser window Library : more Green Design and Building Environment Department Archive
|
|
Send this to a friend Subscribe Contribute Media Kit Privacy Comments
