Great Projects

Glumac Portland Office Achieves LEED Platinum

The Green Building Certification Institute announced this week that the Glumac Portland office has been awarded Platinum certification under LEED CI.  Since last year, Glumac Portland has been happily inhabiting a 15,150 sf, office space in the Standard Insurance Center in the heart of downtown Portland. The office is the result of a deep energy retrofit of […]
Resilient Design - Manhattan without Power

Concepts

Disaster Proofing: Designing for Resiliency

Among the difficulties in New York during Hurricane Sandy, the most striking may have been the failure of emergency generators that prompted the evacuation of two hospitals. When even backup systems are exposed as unexpectedly fragile, it is clearly time to adjust our design thinking. Extreme weather events, rising seas, volatile energy prices, and all […]