May 25th, 2011
Building new green buildings can be exciting. But taking old buildings, like a giant college dormitory built in 1965, and making them as energy efficient as they can be, there’s real satisfaction in that, too.

Morrison Hall at UNC won last year's Battle of the Buildings.
And dollar savings.
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April 27th, 2010

The Sheraton Austin Hotel will compete in the EPA energy contest.
Move over,
Project Runway and
The Biggest Loser. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will sponsor the first national energy efficiency contest of its kind among a field of 14 commercial buildings from across the country. The building that sheds the most energy waste on a percentage basis will be declared the winner at EPA’s final weigh-in on Oct. 26, 2010.
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