Tag: Environmental
Lead by Example – Environmental Stewardship
By: Timothy A. Warren, PE, LEED AP BD+C, Vice President As Design Professionals, engineers have a responsibility to be stewards of the environment. Since buildings consume nearly 40% energy and 40% raw materials, while also producing 30% of the waste output in the United States, our approach to building design has immediate and long-term impacts [...]
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“They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.” – Big Yellow Taxi The early 1970’s, when this song premiered, were a time of environmental awakening for our nation. Green was good; asphalt was bad. Indiscriminate building activities were frowned upon by environmentalists who worried that the country was becoming over-developed. Protesters chained themselves to [...]
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