In 2014, an accident turned Gagot’s life upside down. He was pulling shutters off a second-story window, when he slipped and fell off of a ladder. As a result, he broke his neck and damaged his spinal cord at the C-5 vertebrae.
The Center of Excellence Award honors buildings with unique sustainable and energy-cost-reducing green designs, such as UPA’s recently developed 98,000-square-foot 2.0 University Place in Philadelphia’s surging University City green building corridor.
Viega’s annual open house provided attendees with the opportunity to see its Nashua training facility, where thousands of professionals in the plumbing, HVAC, and pipe-joining industries receive training each year.
The U.S. Department of Energy and the National League of Cities announced a new Better Buildings Zero Energy Districts Accelerator, EnOcean Alliance announced a building solutions partnership with IBM, and more.