Environmental

BERKELEY, Calif. — Harvest, the innovative technology company behind the award-winning *Smart Thermal Battery™*, won a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to integrate its cutting-edge smart controller with…

By Luke Carothers In many ways, the recent push towards AI-enabled products is part of an even longer push towards digitization throughout the AEC industry.  While many parts of the…

By giving nature a helping hand, a landmark restoration project is creating a more resilient coastline barrier for a highway along northwestern Florida’s Apalachicola Bay.   For years, chronic erosion and…

Rockaway Beach Coastal Restoration Project, New York City By JoAnne Castagna, Ed.D. Allan Little, a sixty-two-year-old Far Rockaway resident, who is deaf, is sitting next to a beach dune, digging…

National Building Systems Design Firm Helps Bring World’s First Climate Positive Arena to Life LENEXA, Kan. — Henderson Engineers, a national building systems design firm, is proud to be part of…

Environmental data and permitting are the vital first steps for construction projects of all kinds. The digitization of these processes enables greater efficiency and shorter project timelines, and allows environmental…

Back in 2000, Dag Madara, a geographer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District was walking on Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, the location of the agency’s Atlantic…

Reston, Va. – ASCE’s latest Manual of Practice, Geoenvironmental Engineering: Site Contaminant Characterization, Containment Facilities, Solid Waste Materials, and Contaminated Ground Interventions, MOP 159, provides an overview of a variety of aspects of geoenvironmental engineering,…

Sarasota, FL. | On June, 27, 2024, a pinnacle ‘Power On’ moment arrived at the 15-acre bayfront sanctuary, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus, the World’s First Net Positive…

Bromley Companies’ newly restored 11-story mixed-use building in the Flatiron District recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council for its use of AI to efficiently allocate energy NEW YORK – The…

By Luke Carothers Neetha standing in front of the Austin TX city skyline. Neetha Vasan is a Senior Microclimate Scientist and Associate at Rowan William Davies & Irwin (RWDI) LLC,…

by Locke Solutions The concrete industry, a fundamental pillar of modern construction, is confronting a critical challenge in the face of heightened environmental awareness—how to minimize its carbon footprint. With…

Design architect El Dorado, with Josh Shelton and San Francisco firm Form4, unveil a sophisticated, zero-carbon R&D and light manufacturing hub in city’s Design District SAN FRANCISCO — Debuting one…

By Laci Budd, CPSM Technical Contributor: Mike Makris, P.E. Sustainable site design is a hot topic in the AEC industry. As Civil Engineers, Landscape Architects, and Planners, we are challenged…

Western Washington University (WWU) officially broke ground on the first publicly funded zero-energy academic building on a university campus in Washington State on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Named Kaiser Borsari…

By Mary Scott Nabers Here’s a fact that may be surprising – it surely was to me. The construction or renovation of buildings accounts for approximately 39% of the total…

SHARC International Systems Inc. (CSE: SHRC) (FSE: IWIA) (OTCQB: INTWF) (“SHARC Energy” or the “Company“), a pioneer in wastewater energy transfer (“WET”) technology, and Subterra Capital Partners Inc. (“Subterra Renewables”), a…

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that the company has broken ground on the construction of a 1.7-megawatt solar array as a renewable energy source at its Westminster, Colorado headquarters. The…

New thermal hydrolysis process technology will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advance sustainability goals ARLINGTON, VA – PC Construction, a leading environmental design-build contractor on the East Coast, and Stantec, its…

13.7 million. That’s the number of people employed in renewable energy worldwide as of 2023.1.7 trillion. That’s the number of dollars invested each year on zero-carbon technologies worldwide. These statistics from Renewable…

Climate Change Imperils Some Wastewater Treatment Plants – And Their Workers By Thomas Renner Climate change is being felt all around the world, even in some areas that escape attention.…

This month, civil engineering specialist Elysium Construction is set to complete civil works for Earls Gate Energy Centre (EGEC), a state-of-the-art Energy from Waste facility in Grangemouth, Scotland. Recovering up…

Addresses the urgent need for enhanced sustainable practices, reduced embodied carbon and CO2 emissions in the AECO and manufacturing industries Nashua, NH – Symetri, part of Addnode Group, and a…

Through hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, heatwaves and wildfires, climate change-driven disasters continue to bombard the country. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information reported that 18…

A new WSP survey, conducted by The Harris Poll, reveals 79 percent of Americans are concerned about aging U.S. electric infrastructure; suggests wholehearted support for clean energy projects. WEST PALM…

A new bankside wall using material ideal for aquatic insects has been installed along the north and south shores of Worsbrough Reservoir in Barnsley to replace the former, failing wall.…

A new report published in partnership between McKinsey & Company and the World Economic Forum reveals that the construction sector’s carbon dioxide emissions – from building to real estate to infrastructure…

ESFM’s self-performed energy optimization projects helped an international medical device and equipment manufacturing client reach its global carbon emission goal one year early Charlotte, NC – ESFM won the 2023…

Program will create a more sustainable and long-term solution for protecting Halifax’s Angus L. Macdonald Bridge Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, has been selected by Halifax…

ProjectWise® and iTwin® Facilitate Data-centric Workflows, Optimizing Decision-making to Deliver More Intelligent Sustainable Infrastructure WSP Australia is committed to fostering a holistic digital approach to project delivery across all infrastructure…

Stantec-designed facility will support growth of high-performance rechargeable battery manufacturing across Canada MAPLE RIDGE, BC — TSX, NYSE: STN Bringing advanced manufacturing and hundreds of jobs to British Columbia, E-One Moli…

EcoCortec®- Green Anticorrosion Packaging Plant Becomes Solar Powered! EcoCortec® is anticorrosion  films and bioplastics manufacturer, located  in Croatia. As a daughter company of Cortec® Corporation, global corrosion inhibitor manufacturer, EcoCortec® is…

Inaugural award honors Union Pacific customers and suppliers for innovative sustainability initiatives, cites WSP for sustainability principles and helping clients achieve low-carbon goals. OMAHA — Union Pacific Railroad honored a dozen…

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Bendheim’s channel glass, manufactured by Glasfabrik Lamberts of Germany, now carries both an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and a Health Product Declaration (HPD), supporting architects and designers’ demands…

St. Louis, MO – American architect, writer and educator Frank Lloyd Wright famously said, “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature, it will never fail you.” Incorporating natural elements…

WALTHAM, MA – Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) will host a four-part webinar series in October describing the impacts of embodied carbon on building projects and exploring how the architecture, engineering, and…