LEED Platinum
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A Visit to a LEED Platinum Office Building
This high-rise building in Manitoba has high indoor air quality and low energy bills
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New California Home Meets the Passivhaus Standard
This energy-efficient house in San Jose, California, not only produces enough solar electricity to meet its annual energy needs, it also complies with the stringent Passivhaus standard. The design-build team…
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It’s Alive! – Visiting a Certified Living Building
In Hawaii, I visited a school with an energy lab that met the Living Building Challenge
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LEED-Platinum Skyscraper is an ‘Energy Hog’
Praised at its dedication in 2010, this 55-story building in New York City uses more energy per square foot than its 80-year-old neighbor
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A Net-Zero Campus in New York City
Cornell University plans to build a new energy-efficient Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island in the East River
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A LEED Debate in San Francisco
A newsweekly raises familiar questions about LEED certification and energy use — in this case for a luxury condo development
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Gut Rehab Creates Office Space With an Apartment Above
Architect Richard Renner and his wife Janet Friskey, a graphic designer, wanted a commute in downtown Portland, Maine that involved just a flight of stairs. “We jumped at the opportunity…
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Canada’s First Residential Passivhaus Building
Rideau Residences, a duplex in Ottawa, was aiming for LEED Platinum, but ended up earning Passivhaus certification as well
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Greening the Way to LEED Platinum, Hamptons-style
A nonprofit group promoting ecologically friendly houses landed the top LEED rating for its premiere project, a 4,890-sq.-ft. home in Southampton, New York
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Big Home, LEED Platinum Rating, but Still a Slow Sell
Landing Platinum certification was one thing for this California luxury-home project, finding a buyer was another