Amonix Inc. (Seal Beach, Calif.), designer and manufacturer of utility-scale concentrating solar photovoltaic (CPV) power systems, on November 16th, 2011 announced their facilities in California and Nevada have won gold-level certification for their low environmental impact construction, and high energy and water efficiency from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design [...]

New corporate HQ achieves top sustainability certification, making it one of the world’s greenest Campus powered 100 percent by renewable energy Pune/Washington, D.C.: Suzlon Energy Limited (SEL), the world’s third-largest and India’s largest wind turbine manufacturer accepted on Thursday, April 29, the Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) Platinum award for its new corporate [...]

United Renewable Energy uses Sunny Central Solar Inverter for USFloors Production Facility ROCKLIN, Calif., Jan 26, 2010—United Renewable Energy, LLC (URE) has commissioned the largest commercial solar installation in the state of Georgia at the USFloors building in Dalton. Based on its quality and efficiency, an SMA Sunny Central 250U inverter was chosen to convert [...]

How much does LEED certification add to the cost of a typical construction project?   Dunstan Macauley, P.E., Project Manager/Sr. Mechanical Engineer at Encon Group, Inc.: It depends on the level of certification. LEED Certified and LEED Silver buildings can be constructed for less than 5% increase in the construction cost while a LEED Platinum [...]