The Franklin Bank Mine Reclamation Project, Ashley, Pa., was one of the 30-plus projects nominated for a Brownfield Renewal award in 2010. It didn’t bag a Renewal Award, but it did do this: Removed tons of mine waste and eliminated a source of mine drainage runoff that had infiltrated existing storm water systems and local streams and creeks. In the final analysis, the project team achieved its goal to complete the reclamation and then sell the property for residential redevelopment.
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At Brownfields 2011 in the City of Brotherly Love, the gold standard of the brownfields industry was on full display Monday when this industry's highest achievers were duly acknowledged during the second-annual Renewal Awards ceremony. …
Collegiate Engineering Competition Set to Educate the Next Generation of Auto Engineers …
One of the X factors that industry people must contend with is the way the new Congress will line up in support of land revitalization and urban renewal efforts. At the Brownfields 2011 national conference, the answer might have been found in Meeting Room 125 of the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
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In April, the harbor city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, hosted two days of collaborative discussion as part of a pilot Brownfield planning charette geared towards former service stations. …
A recent report showed urban “green” medical centers as having a great deal of upside for redevelopment purposes. But a new report from Urban Land Institute indicates that—green or not—building medical facilities on a brownfield is an opportunity that is only expected to get healthier. …
The advanced single-stream facility makes recycling easier for area residents and businesses, and was constructed using sustainable building and design techniques, with LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. …
Ohlone College Newark Center, Newark, Calif., is the first college campus in the world to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification, and achieve a net zero carbon footprint during the months of April through August 2008, boasting a 70% reduction in overall energy consumption for a comparable new building. Read how the initiative came together through the efforts of a diversified group of project sponsors.
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Less than three weeks away, the 2011 NYC Big Apple Brownfield Awards will hail five redevelopment projects at a ceremony to be conducted at the Greenberg Lounge in the NYU School of Law. …
New partnership will advance sustainability of parking facilities; establish certification program and credentialing of parking professionals in green parking practices
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New partnership will advance sustainability of parking facilities; establish certification program and credentialing of parking professionals in green parking practices. …
At the May 25 event, five outstanding NYC Brownfield Projects and five Scholarship Winners will be honored. …
Bethpage, N.Y.-based Sustainable Long Island has announced the release of its 2011 Brownfields to Greenfield$ Manual: A how-to guide on brownfields redevelopment. …
USGBC reveals Chicago ranks No. 1 in LEED Certified Square Footage. Moreover, Illinois’ annual growth for the certification of existing green buildings continues to agressively grow. …
At this abandoned, blighted factory—consisting of 187,227 square feet in 21 different structures on 13.5 acres in the three separate parcels—a tour some time ago by a Wisconsin state legislator produced a brutally honest but necessary wake up call.
The state official had toured the former canning facility a few years ago and remarked that it reminded him “of Europe.” Unfortunately, this wasn’t a compliment: The lawmaker wasn’t …
During a recent chat, a brownfield supervisor from U.S. EPA Region 4 posed an excellent question: When brownfield project sponsors go to secure funding at the federal, state or local levels, do the respective funding bodies know who they are dealing with? More to the point, have they "kept score" of past successes (or failures) of project sponsors? Do the public entities even have the metrics that indicate if you're "good for it?" …
