The Green Building Alliance (GBA) has been active in the Pittsburgh area building community as an advocate for sustainable construction and green building products for many years, so when the need for new office space arose, their path was clear. Read more

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International advertising agency Digitas was looking for a workplace which would encourage creativity and out-of-the box thinking in order to create work which would set them apart.  Read more

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The Ford Calumet Environmental Center is being developed by the City of Chicago’s Department of the Environment to industrial and ecological significance of the Calumet region of southern Chicago. Read more

L.L. Bean, Inc. is a century-old, Maine-based national retailer of outdoor gear whose heritage is a big part of its identity.  The company is committed to protecting the environment, and it builds all new structures in accordance with LEED standards. For its new Hunting and Fishing Store, reuse offered a means of building sustainably while simultaneously creating an important connection to place and history. Read more

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The Union South building, a new student union for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will replace the former student union, built in 1971 on the same site. Much of the impetus for the project’s ambitious sustainability goals came from the students, who were highly involved in the design process from the very beginning. Read more

In May 2007, the town of Greensburg, Kansas was destroyed by a tornado estimated to have been larger than the city itself. While developing a rebuilding plan, sustainability came to be a foundational philosophy of a vision for a renewed city. Read more