TIAA-CREF, one of America's largest institutional real estate investors, announced today a goal to improve the energy efficiency of its real estate portfolio by 10 percent by 2010.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded USAA Real Estate Company a 2008 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award in recognition of its continued leadership in protecting our environment through energy efficiency.
Vasilis Fthenakis, head of the National Photovoltaic Environmental Research Center at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will give a talk titled "Solar Grand Plan" at the Laboratory's Berkner Hall on Monday, April 21, at noon. Part of an Earth Day celebration, the talk is free and open to the public. Visitors to the Laboratory age 16 and older must bring a photo ID.
The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) today announced it has received a gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program -- the first and only newly built art museum in the world to receive LEED certification.
Countrywide Home Loans, a division of Countrywide Bank, FSB, today announced the retail launch of its Green Incentive Program, which will initially be available to qualified home buyers in thirteen states.
NAIOP (National Association for Industrial and Office Properties) unveiled the "Ultimate Green Office" exhibit last week at its first annual DevelopGREEN: Sustainable Solutions for Commercial Real Estate conference held at the all-green Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa in Glendale, Ariz.
W. R. Grace and Co. today announced the completion of a strategic investment in CERATECH, Inc., a Maryland-based firm that has developed green, sustainable concrete admixture technologies for formulating high strength, fast setting concrete primarily using fly ash, a waste stream product from coal fired power plants.
Sharp Solar Energy Solutions Group, the U.S. solar arm of Sharp Corporation, a world leader in solar electric solutions, designed and provided the solar power systems for Clarum Homes’ new Hansen Lane Estates in Danville, California.
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Foundation and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) today launched the nation’s first green residential remodeling guidelines at a press conference during INTERIORS 08: The ASID Conference on Design, held in New Orleans.
Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc., a leading manufacturer of Green building products, will break ground today on a state-of-the art plastics recycling plant in Watts, Okla.
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