BuildingGreen.com —Our selection of innovative top 10 product selections promote alternative energy use, reduce carbon emissions, and improve product life cycles. For the past 17 years, BuildingGreen has selected ten green building products that significantly improve upon standard “business-as-usual” practices. These products reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, improve product life cycles...

Architect Magazine —If sustainable design had an attractive spokesmodel, it would be reclaimed materials. Besides conserving resources and reducing waste, they give projects the patina of a past life. Four architects name salvaged products that provide all of the above and more.

When CookFox Architects was going after a LEED Platinum rating for One Bryant Park, in New York (2009), its younger staff approached principals Rick Cook and Robert Fox. Granted, at 1,200 feet, the office tower would be the tallest green skyscraper in the world. But, Cook says, his employees asked, ‘Why not bring sustainability to […]