By Niku Darafshi, Health Building Materials Intern Last week, seven of our team members here at IES embarked on a journey to Hampshire College for the first annual Net Positive Symposium for Higher Education. Included in the group were Charley Stevenson, Mariah Kurtz, Patrick Brannon, Matt St. Pierre, Irene Winkelbauer, Brice Hereford, and Niku Darafshi. The…
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Are you ready to join a growing team where you can make a real difference? We are looking to hire 3-4 Healthy Building Materials Specialists to support our consulting services for Living Building Challenge projects. See job description and apply via Indeed.com
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We are excited and proud to be a part of the team that helped the R.W. Kern Center become the 17th building to receive full Living Building Challenge certification! Our software, Red2Green, was used to maximize efficiency and lower costs as the project pursued the rigorous materials requirements of the Materials Petal. You can read…
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By Nick Noyes and IES Staff
A contingent from IES, representing a variety of perspectives, journeyed to Pittsburgh for the recent LP17. Staffers attending were Mariah Kurtz, Shavon Prophet and Irene Winkelbauer, healthy building materials specialists; Clark Semon, systems designer; Patrick Brannan, director of people and organization; and Donald Mulhern, senior sustainability manager. Owner Charley Stephenson was also on hand and joined other panelists for an educational discussion on Leveraging the Living Building Challenge to Achieve Healthy, High Performing Spaces.From diverse perspectives, all participants share a commitment to healthy, sustainable buildings and products. They offer here some quick impressions of this significant annual event.
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With the onset of the industrial revolution in the 19th century, lead became a widely used material not only in the workplace, but in the form of house paint as well. It became a public health disaster.
DetailsHappy Earth Day! By Nick Noyes, Shavon Prophet As an industry, green building is on pace to double every three years in large part due to the growing adoption of green building standards such as LEED, Living Building Challenge and Well. This year’s Earth Day campaign theme is “Environmental & Climate Literacy,” and Integrated Eco…
DetailsOne of our Healthy Building Materials Specialists wrote this piece to answer the question. Here is a description of material vetting work – a knight’s tale if you will: In a field that is constantly changing, no two correspondences are the same. There are a host of factors that influence the vetting process. Manufacturers’ familiarity with Living Building Challenge…
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IES is excited to be a partner in Binghamton University’s (Binghamton, NY) first Living Building Challenge project, called Nuthatch Hollow.
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