Courtesy Preservation Resource Center

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans over 10 years ago, it displaced residents and decimated the building stock in dozens of neighborhoods. Many buildings were damaged beyond the point of rehabilitation. These buildings were typically demolished and their materials landfilled. Read more

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Warren Wilson College is an independent, liberal arts college with a commitment to environmental leadership and innovation.  Students are expected to actively participate in shaping their experience at Warren Wilson. In 1998, when students learned of the plans for the new dorm, they established a committee to meet with the project team and set sustainability goals. Read more

Antioch Baptist Church was built as a thesis project by four students of Rural Studio, an Auburn University architecture program in which students design and build buildings in several poor communities in rural western Alabama. The new building replaced a small, remote church, which had been perched precariously on piled stones for almost 100 years and had begun to sag with age. Read more

It is not often that a natural disaster advances the sustainability agenda of a project, particularly when that disaster occurs during construction.  However, this is exactly what happened when Hurricane Rita blew through Orange, Texas in September 2005. Read more

The North Charleston Elementary School replaced an old school building which had occupied the same site for over eighty years. Many city residents were initially opposed to the idea of constructing a new building because the old one had been associated with fond memories. Read more

Two architecture firms used the need for  new workspace as an opportunity to introduce their staff to green building. The firms jointly purchased a former tractor trailer manufacturing facility and junkyard near downtown San Antonio. Read more