Tag Archives: Net Zero

Leers Weinzapfel Associates completes student center at New Hampshire college

March 1, 2021

Designed by Leers Weinzapfel Associates, the Anonymous Hall faculty and graduate student center at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, is now complete.

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New report offers specifiers strategies to reduce embodied carbon in buildings

December 4, 2020

International engineering firm Walter P Moore has released a stewardship report entitled Embodied Carbon, A Clearer View of Carbon Emissions. The report focuses on an issue of relevance for all material specifiers, which is the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Amazon’s new stadium to be the world’s first net-zero-carbon certified arena

August 28, 2020

Tech giant Amazon has secured naming rights to the new home of Seattle’s to-be-named National Hockey League (NHL) team and Women’s National Basketball Association’s (WNBA’s) Seattle Storm, and is calling it Climate Pledge Arena. The name refers to The Climate Pledge, launched in 2019 by Amazon and Global Optimism, which calls on signatories to be net-zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement.

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The state of energy efficiency: IECC and the building enclosure

January 30, 2020

The author provides an overview of the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), discusses how and why the requirements for the building enclosure have changed, and how the current code will impact design and construction. He explores how climate influences design, the need to control air and water in an enclosure assembly, and the rationale behind reducing the percentage of glass on façades.

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Zero-energy residence inventories grew in 2018: Report

August 16, 2019

The market for residential zero-energy buildings grew 59 percent across the United States and Canada last year, according to a new report.

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