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- Phipps Center for Sustainable Landscapes achieves Living Building Challenge certification Wed, 18 Mar 15, 11:00pmPittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens has broken ground after becoming the fourth Living Building Challenge™ in the world for its Center for Sustainable Landscapes (CSL)...
- Sonoma Mountain Village: North America’s First One Planet Community Sat, 9 Aug 14, 4:00amSonoma Mountain Village is envisioned as a place where residents can work, shop, play, and have virtually all of their needs met within a 5 minute walk of where they live...
- Castle Square’s LEED Platinum Renovation Is the US’ Largest Deep Energy Retrofit Tue, 18 Dec 12, 8:50amOriginally built in the 1960s, Castle Square was recently retrofitted into an 192-unit affordable apartment building, making it the US’ largest LEED Platinum building to receive a Deep Energy Retrofit...
- Volkswagen’s Brand New Chattanooga Plant Awarded LEED Platinum Tue, 10 Jan 12, 5:20amEarly last year Volkswagen (VW) opened its first US-based production facility in Chattanooga, TN. Now fully operational, the building was recently awarded LEED Platinum, making it the first and only automotive manufacturing...