Designing and building the first mass timber commercial office building in the Philadelphia metropolitan area required intense coordination to combine mass timber with multiple structural systems.
Veteran structural engineer Don Davies often confesses that by his own calculations, his annual personal carbon footprint is a whopping 10 times the world average and 3½ times the U.S. average.
Third on the Top 200 Environmental Firms list, Larsen & Toubro sees good business in aiding developing world's transition to greener and lower-carbon economies.
"Global warming is a design issue. We have the ability, we have the brains, we have the technology," noted UK-based designer told attendees in global summit panel with Biden climate envoy John Kerry.
The nonprofit Build Health International overcomes myriad obstacles to enable health care for the world's neediest by providing high-quality, cost-effective hospitals.