Selling Peace and Quiet
For hotels and motels located near noisy streets, highways, train tracks, airports, or urban city walks, keeping external noise from penetrating into what should...
Green Building Goals
By Brent Trenga
A report from The Brookings Institute found that transitioning to a clean energy economy would be a boon to the U.S. economy, expanding...
Readily Biodegradable Fluids
Performance and sustainability—two words with growing importance in the construction industry. Performance is a must-have to complete any job effectively, efficiently, on-time, and on-budget,...
Deep Foundation Design Challenges
With space at a premium in many urban areas, developers are digging deeper foundations to increase the square footage of residential, commercial, and mixed-use...
Path Reconstruction
The Springwater Corridor Bike Path is a very popular bicycle commuting thoroughfare extending along the east bank of the Willamette River in downtown Portland,...
Permeable Pavers
Retrofit manages water runoff for city street
Max Poppel and Dan Rose began their entrepreneurial pursuits in 2011 when they opened The Crash Pad, a...
AI Technology
By Jane Marsh
Artificial intelligence (AI) might have a bad reputation in popular media, but in recent years it’s become a valuable tool for data...
Enzyme Bioremediation
The joys of modern innovation have also brought with it the by-products of waste. In the past, companies did not know how to properly...
Environmental Solutions in the Fuel Industry
As we kick off 2019, it’s good to get a feel for what’s expected to take place in the fuel industry as it concerns...
Doing More With Less
The Power of the Energy-Efficient Building Incentive
By Valerie Ward
Doing more at a lower cost and with fewer resources is every business person’s challenge. When...









