GE Real Estate is among the world’s larger real estate investment companies, with $72 billion in assets in 31 countries; its investment business generates more than $30 billion in transactions annually. Joined by President Bill Clinton at the Greenbuild conference in Chicago in November 2007, the company announced that it would not only make... Read more

BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of the

GreenSpec Directory and

Environmental Building News (

EBN), announced its annual Top-10 Green Building Products during the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild Conference and Expo, held in November 2007 in Chicago. The Top-10 consists of the ten most exciting products added to... Read more

With its dominant position defining green building in the North American market, the LEED Rating System is a popular target for critics with a wide range of axes to grind, some justified, others less so. One of the more valid concerns is that LEED’s promises of energy savings (and therefore carbon reductions) are just that—promises. With the... Read more

International architecture firm Perkins + Will has strengthened its healthcare design practice with the acquisition of Guenther 5 Architects, a healthcare-focused firm based in New York City. The firms have not disclosed the terms of their merger. Guenther 5, headed by founder Robin Guenther, FAIA, is known for its work designing green... Read more

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has recognized several green building pioneers with its annual Leadership Awards, presented at the Greenbuild Conference and Expo in Chicago in November 2007.

EBN advisory board member

Gail Lindsey, FAIA, founder of Design Harmony in Raleigh, North Carolina, was... Read more

The editors of

Environmental Building News, GreenSpec, and the online BuildingGreen Suite are pleased to announce a new resource: BuildingGreen.com LIVE. Structured like a blog but linked to the full range of articles and product listings available at BuildingGreen.com, and to outside resources, LIVE features up-to-the-minute news,... Read more

A bill signed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would provide rebates to residents and businesses to support the installation of 200,000 solar water heating systems in the state by 2017. The bill, which takes effect on January 1, 2008, requires the State’s energy commission to evaluate data from a pilot project run by the California... Read more

Wireless technology has been in development for decades but has blossomed in recent years with the proliferation of cell phones and wireless computer networking, enabling greater communication and connectivity among electronic devices. The technology has affected telecommunication, transportation, and consumer electronics and now offers new... Read more

Following the tremendous response to its Living Buildings Challenge (see

EBN

Vol. 15, No. 12), the Cascadia Region Green Building Council unveiled its new “Living Site and Infrastructure Challenge” at Greenbuild 2007 in Chicago. This new system is modeled closely on its predecessor, with the same “all prerequisites, no credits”... Read more