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Pueblo Community Health Center’s total site energy use is offset by total site energy production The first zero energy outpatient healthcare facility in North America is not a towering, gleaming architectural marvel. It is not part of a world-renowned healthcare system. In fact, the building was once a grocery store. In short, it does not…

The 15-story facility is expected to open in 2030. An event launched construction of the $4.3 billion, iconic UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital – a 15-story facility that will aggregate some of the most complex care capacity in the country in one city block to serve San Francisco, the Bay Area and beyond for coming…

With all the attention that hygiene and sanitizing have received these last few years, the importance of handwashing has been highlighted as an important way to stop the spread of germs and bacteria. Janitorial staff need to stay vigilant in prioritizing this part of their cleaning practices to improve cleanliness and keep employees and visitors…

Biophilic design supports the health and wellbeing of individuals by connecting people to nature. This includes incorporating elements of the natural world into indoor environments, increasing natural lighting, improving ventilation for better indoor air quality, adding landscape features that bring life to sterile environments, and using mass timber. Benefits of biophilia include reduced stress, increased wellbeing, improved…

Close to 860 million people visited Ikea stores last year, helping it generate more than $50 billion in sales. The world’s largest furniture retailer is using that exposure to drive a unique net-zero goal: a pledge to cut the climate footprint from products Ikea customers use at home by 70 percent by 2030. So far,…

To tackle big risks requires big imagination and big bucks. And, except for annihilation from global thermonuclear warfare, no set of risks loom larger than the continuing atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon dioxide. Earth is responding to this buildup through rising temperatures, melting glaciers, expanding seas, migrating species and disease vectors and a…