BERKELEY, CALIF.—Everyone’s talking about "going green," but the cost of the investment has, up to now, been difficult to justify. Energy savings aside, what are the financial benefits of using…

WORCESTER, MASS.—A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is developing a solar collector that could use the heat generated by asphalt roads and parking lots as an alternative energy…

BOSTON—Nitsch Engineering won an Excellence in Landscape Architecture Merit Award from the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) for the firm’s work on the University of Virginia’s (UVA’s) Meadow…