The LEED Gold-certified Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Federal Courthouse was designed and constructed to earn SITESv2 Silver certification as part of the U.S. General Services Administration’s adoption of SITES Silver certification for its capital construction program. It is GSA’s first courthouse project to be SITES-certified under version 2 of the rating system and the first SITES-certified project in South Carolina.
Feature image credit: Studio Balcones and Patrick Wong.
Once a flat, plain road median, the SITES Silver Richard Moya Eastside Bus Plaza—named for the first Mexican American person elected to public office in Austin—has been transformed. Now a vibrant, ecologically robust refuge for wildlife, the landscape echoes the historic Central Texas ecoregion of the Blackland Prairie, and offers renewed beauty and comfort to more than 600 riders each day.
Expedia HQ is located a mile north of downtown Seattle on a 40-acre waterfront site. The campus has unparalleled sweeping views of the Puget Sound, Mount Rainier, and Downtown Seattle.
Located in the heart of Chicago, the University of Illinois Chicago is a vital part of the educational, technological, and cultural fabric of the region. UIC’s Arthington Mall Plaza serves as an open, common area for students, faculty, staff, and visitors of the West Side of campus.
Image credit: Colby College.
Feature image: The Phipps Center for Sustainable Landscapes. Image credit: Lofty Views.
Sustainable land development provides a critical opportunity for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through material choices, landscape design, construction and maintenance practices, and enhancing a project’s ability to store and sequester carbon with soil and vegetation.
Feature image credit: Mariusz Blach, Adobe Stock.
There are multiple opportunities to connect with the SITES team this fall in San Francisco, California. First, join the team for the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, the world’s largest green building and business conference, Nov. 1–3. Then, meet SITES the following week for ASLA’s 2022 Conference on Landscape Architecture from Nov. 11–14.