Roundup – The Best of HB Below are some of the most exciting and innovative new projects, people and buildings on HB. Tell us your favorites by tweeting @HonestBuildings or emailing us and we’ll use one of your suggestions next week! Thursday, September 6 Follow Honest Buildings PROJECT: Shining New Light On An [...]
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How to Edit and Sequence Pictures on Building, Company and Project Profiles
July 12, 2012 – 10:13 am
We’re excited to have released our new building profiles with bigger and better pictures! In addition, we have also added editing features that allow you to arrange the order in which people view the pictures on building, company, and project profiles. Below is a how-to for each: Building Profiles: Click on the top of [...]
VertiCrop Innovation Coming To Vancouver Rooftops
January 9, 2012 – 6:46 pm
Vancouver has a stated goal to become the worlds greenest city by 2020. To take the next step toward reaching that goal, the city is looking within, to a VertiCrop green roof developed by Vancouver-based Valcent Products, Inc. VertiCrop, an urban farming innovation, allows for higher crop yields relative to traditional methods, while [...]
Facebook’s first data center outside the U.S. is a model of efficiency
October 31, 2011 – 5:04 pm
Data centers are the backbone of the Internet — and they also pose its biggest environmental challenge. They use extraordinary amounts of electricity to run the servers and keep them cool. When building an efficient center, the right location is everything (as it is with so many things in life). For its super-efficient new center, [...]
Willets Point redevelopment continues … slowly
October 24, 2011 – 10:42 am
It has been four and a half years since New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans to redevelop an area in Queens known as Willets Point, but it still looks exactly as it did in May 2007. Streets lined with auto repair shops — and no sidewalks — bely none of the work being done [...]
UC Davis’ exciting experiment in zero net energy living
October 17, 2011 – 5:02 pm
This week, the University of California at Davis unveils a new mixed-use campus housing center called West Village. The $300 million project is one of the most innovative and ambitious of its kind. What makes it so special? For one thing, it sets a precedent with its scale: 130 acres, including 662 apartments and 343 [...]
The Gramercy Park Hotel’s Rooftop Garden
October 12, 2011 – 9:52 pm
The Gramercy Park Hotel is one of the chicest tickets in town, from Danny Meyer’s Maialino restaurant on the ground floor to the celebrity-XX Rose Bar on the top. But not many people know that it has a rooftop garden where they’ve been growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs for the hotel for more than two years. Esquire [...]
OHSU Goes Double Platinum
October 4, 2011 – 12:44 pm
The Oregon Health and Science University Center for Health & Healing has earned a double platinum LEED score of 82. Particularly noteworthy: the center is one of the largest LEED platinum-rated facilities in the country. Check it out on the OHSU CHH Honest Buildings profile.
Project Spotlight: $51M retrofit of afforable housing complex in Harlem
September 14, 2011 – 2:51 pm
We love this project, an ambitious retrofit of West 135th Street Apartments, because it makes smart use of a number of funding streams, both private and public, and it proves that energy-efficiency is not a luxury available only to residents of medium- or high-income housing. The Real Deal reports that the $50.9M effort was the [...]
So easy, school kids can do it.
August 17, 2011 – 3:03 pm
The New York Times reports that “energy consumption in New York City’s 1,245 school buildings is down roughly 11 percent since 2008.” The district has installed motion detectors on classroom lights and unused equipment has been unplugged over summer. Rooftop solar panels are being installed on three schools. More than 1,000 school facility operators are [...]
