Nadine Post

It’s serendipitous for the Microsoft Thermal Energy Center team that young Stuart Yanow decided to take his older sister’s advice and major in mechanical engineering rather than health sciences.

<p>The PAE Living Building is the 35th building in the world to earn full certification from the Living Building Challenge, the International Living Future Institute’s rigorous sustainability program.</p><br>

<p>The 58,000-sq-ft PAE Living Building in Portland, Ore., is the first privately developed speculative office building fully certified under the rigorous Living Building Challenge of the International Living Future Institute, and one of only 35 fully certified Living Buildings in the world. </p>

Decarbonization advocates are railing against the International Code Council for removing mandatory greenhouse-gas-reduction readiness provisions.

<p>The Microsoft Thermal Energy Center, a groundbreaking geothermal heating and cooling system that serves the buildings of the tech giant’s 72-acre East Campus Modernization outside Seattle, was truly two exotic jobs wrapped into one.</p>

Carla Sciara began working in construction as a design drafter for an electrical contractor on its Four Seasons Hotel project in Manhattan—the first hotel designed by the renowned architect I.M. Pei.

<p>Field test of portland cement-free binder for concrete shows promise, says structural engineer.</p>

<p>The work on the Coral Canyon tank was described as ‘way outside the box.’</p>

<p>Rules are designed to reduce the sizable carbon footprint of the ubiquitous construction material.</p>

Veteran structural engineer Don Davies has donned an owner-developer's hat to demonstrate how to drastically reduce embodied carbon in buildings.