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LEED-EB Silver Certification for Toronto Office Tower

LEED-EB Silver Certification for Toronto Office Tower

A model for greening an existing commercial building.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
472,000 sq. ft.

Oxford Properties Group’s 15-story Class A office tower at …

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Rogers Communications Adapts 1-Million-SF Building Outside Toronto

Rogers Communications Adapts 1-Million-SF Building Outside Toronto

One of North America’s largest office transformations.
Brampton, Ontario
1 million sq. ft.

The design of Nortel’s 1-million-square-foot Brampton Centre factory-to-headquarters conversion outside Toronto …

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A Sustainable Strategy for California State University-Sacramento

A Sustainable Strategy for California State University-Sacramento

Helping California State University-Sacramento (Sacramento State) “go green.”
 
Sacramento, California
 

A newly developed Sustainable Design and Operations Strategies study guides the University in its …

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Patrick MacLeamy: BIM, BAM, BOOM! How to Build Greener, High-Performance Buildings

Patrick MacLeamy: BIM, BAM, BOOM! How to Build Greener, High-Performance Buildings

Written by HOK CEO Patrick MacLeamy, this story first appeared in Urban Land Green magazine.
With early collaboration and a platform …

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Nature Conservancy Evaluates the Performance of its Space

Nature Conservancy Evaluates the Performance of its Space

VIDEO: Project Designer Selin Ozertugrul talks about a recent post-occupancy evaluation of the Nature Conservancy headquarters building in Arlington, Virginia. 

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Bill Valentine: Building Less as the Essential Concept of Green Design

Bill Valentine: Building Less as the Essential Concept of Green Design

by Bill Valentine, HOK Chairman
The people of our country are crying out for help. We’re losing access to quality health …

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Biomimicry: Consulting with Nature

Biomimicry: Consulting with Nature

With 3.8 billion years of hands-on experience, nature is the undisputed expert on time-tested resiliency strategies.
Biomimicry is an emerging science …

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Leigh Stringer: Change Management for Green Workplace Programs

Leigh Stringer: Change Management for Green Workplace Programs

Before you start trying to green your workplace, consider the different psyches of the people you’re trying to change — …

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A Methodology that Helps Missouri Implement Energy Savings in Buildings

A Methodology that Helps Missouri Implement Energy Savings in Buildings

A team facilitated an interactive study that created a methodology for helping the state of Missouri implement energy-saving measures that can …

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