Energy

MTech Mechanical is excited to announce the official launch of MTech Energy. This new offering expands diversified services to clients for energy efficiency retrofits, lighting improvements, renewable energy generation, and building envelope improvements. This will be offered in collaboration with service, construction, in-house engineering and other teams. The importance and …

Given the growing importance of sustainability, the latest 42Floors study seeks to rank the most eco-friendly markets within the United States, based on eight metrics that analyze both the building itself (certifications, energy efficiency, and materials) and the surrounding environment (building policies, EV charging stations, public transit, and walkability). Washington, …

At a recent event held at the newly-opened Thrive Apartments in Denver’s Sun Valley neighborhood, Kelly Watkins of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 office joined Denver Mayor Michael Hancock; Denver Housing Authority CEO David Nisivoccia; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Deputy Regional Administrator, Erik Amundson; …

BranchPattern, a national sustainability and engineering firm, has released its highly anticipated 2023 Benchmark Study on Embodied Carbon in U.S. Industrial Real Estate. In partnership with five major industrial real estate developers (Affinius Capital, Bridge Industrial, Brookfield Properties, IDI Logistics, and Prologis), the study reviewed how the industry is defining …

Lightship, America’s first all-electric RV company, has a lease agreement for a 32,000-square-foot facility at McWhinney’s Baseline Innovation District in Broomfield. The space will house the company’s pilot manufacturing operations for the Lightship L1, an aerodynamic, solar and battery-powered travel trailer, to meet high demand following its launch in March. …

CoreSite, a leading hybrid IT solutions provider and a subsidiary of American Tower Corporation, today announced the continued expansion of its Denver and Silicon Valley data center campuses, to meet the dynamic digital infrastructure requirements of public and private cloud providers, enterprises, network, and service providers. As a leading interconnection …

The Boulder County Housing Authority (BCHA) has taken another major step toward beginning construction on what will be one of the largest mixed-use and environmentally sustainable net-zero affordable housing neighborhoods ever built in Boulder County. On Tuesday, April 18, Lafayette City Council unanimously approved BCHA’s site plan for the first …

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this week that the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) will receive up to $1 million from the agency’s Climate Pollution Reduction Act grant program to develop innovative strategies to support climate change by cutting pollution and building clean energy economies in communities …

By Rachel Mountain, Greenhouse gases from commercial buildings are no longer accepted as unavoidable externalities. The City of Denver is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, and they need your help to do it. New building performance policies, like Energize Denver, are designed to improve energy efficiency, encourage …

Trimble, an industrial technology company, has broken ground on a 1.7-megawatt solar array as a renewable energy source at its Westminster headquarters. The new solar panels are projected to offset more than 100 percent of the energy consumed by Trimble’s two-building campus in the Westmoor Technology Park, Trimble’s largest employment center in …