United Therapeutics located in Silver Spring, MD, plans to open a net-zero energy building, the Unisphere, this month. The 125,000-square-foot building contains office spaces, virtual laboratories, retail, and an additional 75,000 square-foot parking structure. To reach the net-zero goal, the...

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) represents 60,000 members in over 130 countries, but nowhere is its work to advance the Earth and space sciences more visible than at the organization’s headquarters near DuPont Circle in Washington, DC. AGU began a...

The District of Columbia will soon release the latest update of the local energy code for public comment. Typically reviewed and improved every five years, the city’s energy code is one of the most stringent in the country. This latest...

Washington DC Mayor Bowser signed the Green Finance Authority Establishment Act of 2018 earlier this month, making the District the first U.S. city to establish a green bank. The innovative policy tool seeks to expand renewable energy, lower energy costs,...

I once heard a statistic that said that if everyone in the world lived the way we do in the U.S., it would take five planets worth of natural resources to do so. This is obviously impossible. Our unsustainable lifestyles...

It’s not as if the Morningside Crossing project is short on ambition. The team is taking an abandoned 1897 elementary school recently acquired by developer AM Rodriguez, retrofitting it and its 1929 addition to the rigorous Passivhaus standard, and adding a new Passivhaus wing....

The buildings industry has long been looking beyond component-level energy-saving measures to achieve the next level of efficiency in buildings. In 2015, the Alliance to Save Energy launched the Systems Efficiency Initiative (SEI) – a multi-year collaboration among industry leaders,...

Staying in town after the forum wraps on the April 19? Join the Pittsburgh 2030 District for an evening of celebration, networking, and a short presentation for the data nerd in each of us. Get full details below and register...

Published in MicroGrid Knowledge: Pittsburgh wants an airport microgrid. And developers — a lot of them — want to build it. The Allegheny County Airport Authority has received 64 responses to its request for expressions of interest seeking a developer to...

This guest blog was originally published in GreenBiz on March 6, 2018. See post at GreenBiz The oculus inside the zero-net-energy VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Center in Vancouver, Canada. Credit: Kent Kalberg/Vancouver Parks Board   The last  two years have...