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Digging Deeper | Hospitality

Downtown Denver Hotel Design Inspired by Walk in Woods

Denver’s Populus project incorporates negative emissions and glass fiber reinforced concrete ‘aspen eyes’ into the design

Eric Peterson

September 25, 2023

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Architect Jeanne Gang of Chicago-based Studio Gang returned from a Colorado backpacking trip inspired by a grove of aspen trees.

A photo of the construction site for a UMass Medical Center project using a geothermal well

UMass Medical School Bets Big on Geothermal Heating and Cooling

Scott Van Voorhis

November 11, 2021

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UMass Chan Medical School is betting big on geothermal heating and cooling to slash the greenhouse gas emissions from the newest addition to its Worcester campus, a $325 million research and education complex.

Using Connected Data To Reduce Carbon Impacts

Shivani Soni

Luc Wing

June 24, 2021

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Achieving ambitious greenhouse gas emission mitigation goals in the building sector is essential to limiting global warming, but accomplishing this goal requires firms to assess their regional challenges.

Digging Deeper: Nevada

Greenlink Nevada Gets Green Light to Power Up

Doug Puppel

June 21, 2021

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Nevada Legislature accelerates plan to build a power line project that will enhance the use of renewable energy in the state.

Boston Releases First Zero Carbon Affordable Housing Design Standards

Thornton Tomasetti, Bensonwood and Placetailor helped create new guidebook

Stephanie Loder

April 22, 2020

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Guidebook, released April 22, is set to help developers, designers, and builders that seek a zero emissions resource.

EIA Expects Renewables' Growth to Slow

Country will be a Net Exporter of Energy in 2020

Pam McFarland

January 25, 2019

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Federal government's Annual Energy Outlook forecasts a lot more natural gas, continued increase for renewables.

Pam Hunter McFarland

October 25, 2018

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The National Academies say technologies could be scaled up to help offset climate change.

New Tools May Help Cut Down Embodied Carbon

Nadine M. Post

September 27, 2018

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At last month’s Global Climate Action Summit, Microsoft announced it is the first large corporate user of a new tool to track carbon emissions associated with raw building materials.

Fuel Cells Promise Carbon Capture With Power Output Boost

Thomas F. Armistead

May 18, 2016

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With concern about global warming prompting 177 countries to sign the December 2015 Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the removal of carbon dioxide from power-plant flue gas is becoming an urgent priority.

Climate Change

Engineers Eye Sustainable Solutions at London Conference

Peter Reina

December 16, 2015

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A top U.S. engineer has called for building codes to include limits on carbon dioxide released by the production of construction materials to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.