The U.S. Green Building Council announced updates to the primary version of the LEED green building certification program, LEED v4, to more directly address carbon emissions and climate change.
With the change, building design and construction and Interior design and construction projects will be able to demonstrate improvement in energy performance with LEED v4.1’s metric of energy cost or greenhouse gas emissions in addition to LEED v4’s original source energy metric. Read More …
Whiteman Air Force Base, in Knob Noster, Missouri, home of the 509th Bomb Wing and the world’s only B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber unit, has recently completed a $28.5-million update of the base’s existing medical facility. Read More …
Burns & McDonnell has been selected by Parkland Health & Hospital System to provide building commissioning services as part of the continued design and construction on the Parkland campus in Texas. Located in Dallas County, the 2.8-million-square-foot Parkland campus is nearly twice the size of the old hospital, Read More …
