Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Columbia Square building, right, and Koin Center building, left, shown in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2013, are both ...

When Scott Hardin found a home four years ago for his real estate appraisal firm, The Appraiser Guy, at Woburn’s Trade Center 128, he was pleased to settle into the “green” building. Besides the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The eco-friendly building rating system known as LEED has been around for more than a decade, powering a green arms race in cities across the nation. It’s an industry force, ...

Could efforts to go green leave the construction industry with a black eye? That question is surfacing as researchers explore whether construction workers face a greater risk of injury on projects ...

The USGBC’s LEED system (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is only one of several sustainability programs in construction, but it has become a very important one. Increasingly, some types ...

The Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS), a world-class “living lab” that represents Rochester Institute of Technology’s ongoing commitment to the environment, has been certified Leadership in ...

Plus, the app allows users to provide real-time updates to an unlimited number of team members and owners of LEED construction credits. Reports can be exported and backed up for LEED credit ...

New buildings on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, are so tightly constructed these days that engineers need to make special provision to improve cell-phone coverage inside the buildings.

The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) announced its annual Top 10 States for LEED. The per capita list highlights states throughout the country that are making significant strides in ...

Green building is expected to become the standard rather than the exception. High-performance and “green” buildings are designed and built to minimize resource consumption, reduce life-cycle costs, ...

A little over a dozen years ago, the US Green Building Council (USGBC) established LEED in response to a perceived need that specific and determined standards and third-party verification be required ...

There’s a big problem with snapping LEED ratings into building codes, which are equivalent to law: the United States Green Building Council is a private institution that has no public oversight. When ...