UT Southwestern and Children’s Health Gifted $25M for New Pediatric Campus

UT Southwestern and Children’s Health Gifted $25M for New Pediatric Campus

The new campus is projected to open in 2031. UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Health announced a $25 million gift from the Harry W. Bass, Jr. Foundation, directed through Southwestern Medical Foundation, in support of their $5 billion transformative joint pediatric campus under construction in Dallas’ Southwestern Medical District across from UTSW’s William P….

NYC zoning changes, high vacancy rates drive office conversion activity

NYC zoning changes, high vacancy rates drive office conversion activity

Changes in zoning policy are helping to boost office-to-residential conversion activity in New York City, with annual conversions growing from 1.6 million square feet in 2023 to 3.3 million in 2024. Through August 2025, 4.1 million square feet of conversions have started, surpassing all of 2024, according to a Cushman & Wakefield report. This shift…

What you should know about the EPA’s plan to stop collecting emissions data

What you should know about the EPA’s plan to stop collecting emissions data

A foundational data source that shapes the work of sustainability professionals across multiple sectors will disappear if the Trump administration goes ahead with plans to scrap the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, critics of the move warn. The program, run since 2009 by the Environmental Protection Agency, requires around 8,000 oil refineries, power plants and other…

3 ways companies can push clean energy forward despite federal rollbacks

3 ways companies can push clean energy forward despite federal rollbacks

The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis.​ President Donald Trump’s big tax and spending bill, along with a series of executive actions targeting climate and clean energy programs, are disrupting clean energy manufacturing, supply chains and deployment that had been surging this decade. Notably, these actions include…

Not just cuckoo clocks. Why Switzerland is the world’s most innovative country

Not just cuckoo clocks. Why Switzerland is the world’s most innovative country

In Orson Welles’ famous scene-stealing cameo in The Third Man, his character Harry Lime comes out with that (in)famous speech about Swiss culture. “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance,” he says. “In Switzerland, they had brotherly…

Unlocking the Mystery of Microgrids in Facilities Management

Unlocking the Mystery of Microgrids in Facilities Management

As more natural disasters occur, facilities consider options to keep the power up and running during outages. As extreme weather events increase and energy prices fluctuate, facility executives are turning to microgrids, which can help keep institutional and commercial facilities online during power outages. They do this by providing electricity from onsite sources of power…