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Hospitals can balance costs, build resilience and learn from global models for sustainable design to further their green goals. Sustainability is no longer just an option in healthcare facilities. Rising expectations from patients, staff and regulators, coupled with financial and climate pressures, are pushing hospitals to embed sustainable practices into every stage of planning and…

Effective maintenance routines and readiness to make decisions leads to better outcomes, lower costs, and less stress. Maintaining parking structures at institutional and commercial facilities through wear-and-tear, environmental stressors, and severe weather often falls on the shoulders of maintenance and engineering managers. Implementing effective maintenance routines and advanced planning can save on costs, minimize disruptions,…

Last month Kimley-Horn employees returned to their customary desks in a Reston, Va. office building, certain now that the indoor air pollutants they believe had sickened about half of them had fallen back to safe levels. What’s left of the health scare and temporary relocation of more than 200 employees is a multimillion dollar lawsuit…

Skanska has topped out a $65-million renovation and expansion project at the North Carolina Dept. of Environmental Quality’s Reedy Creek Laboratory in Raleigh. Totaling 86,000 sq ft, the project aims to enhance research capabilities and optimize workflows at the 35-year-old facility, which currently houses labs serving the agency’s Air Quality and Water Resources divisions. DEQ’s…

ENR Texas & Southeast’s 2025 Best Projects Awards events are coming up quickly. So far, we’ve announced nearly 40 Best Projects award winners for both the ENR Texas & Louisiana event, as well as for ENR Southeast event. We hope members of all of the winning teams are making plans to attend the respective events…

Dive Brief: The California Legislature on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would provide financing for manufacturers looking to adopt thermal energy storage systems and heat pumps for their operations. AB 1280, introduced by Democratic Assembly member Robert Garcia, would expand the types of decarbonization projects considered eligible for financial incentives under programs like the…