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This 150,000-sq-meter mall in Beirut has become a symbol of the future for a city plagued by past violence and instability and continuing impacts from unrest in nearby Syria.

Designed by the late Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, the 62-story One Thousand Museum Residences project in Miami features a structural exoskeleton comprised of glass-fiber-reinforced concrete that simulates an undulating piece of sculpture.

Last week, at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft announced it is the first large corporate user of a new tool to track the carbon emissions of raw building materials. Microsoft is piloting the tool, called the Embodied Carbon Calculator for Construction or EC3, in the remodel of its 72-acre Seattle campus.

South Carolina officials brace for 7 in. of rain or more in upstate, midland areas, higher levels on coast.

Construction work begins on one of the largest projects in local Seattle history

Kiewit building 300,000-ton-per-year greenfield plant

The market for sustainable buildings continues to grow, but the industry now has many more standards to choose from.