When the neighboring Xcel Energy power plant notified Andersen Corporation in 2005 that the company needed to find a new source of steam energy for its Bayport facility, Andersen met the challenge while adhering to their principals of environmental stewardship. Today, Andersen’s unique new steam plant allows the use of virtually all renewable energy with [...]
Top 8 Ways to Beat the Heat.
Hot summer days don’t have to mean greater energy consumption and expense. In addition to the ideas below, if we acclimate our bodies to the summer heat by avoiding big temperature swings, we can rely less on AC to cool us down.
Turn up the Dial. Each degree above 78 [...]
The largest earth sheltered home in the United States is currently under construction in Northern Michigan. Homeowner Bessheen Baker is passionate about sustainable living, and has hired “The Hybrid Home Guy” Adam Bearup to ensure successful completion of the compound.
The 12,000-square-foot complex consists of multiple buildings, including the main house, a greenhouse, guest quarters, and [...]
Andersen Corporation’s 100 Series product line has received the 2010 Top 100 Best New Building Products of the Year award from Hanley Wood. Hanley Wood’s Building Products magazine and its ebuild website provide details on the winners. Sustainability is a key buzzword among the products featured in this year’s awards.
Andersen Corporation’s new streamlined and versatile [...]
Leaders at Andersen Corporation launched an internal effort in 2008 to reduce, reuse and recycle everything possible in the office area of the business. Andersen Corporation Vice President of Corporate Sustainability and Quality, J Glasnapp, dubbed the program ECO3 and launched an employee communications initiative around it.
The company carefully measures these activities and, since the [...]
Seabrook, established in 2004, is a 350-acre development perched on the Pacific coastline in sleepy Grays Harbor County, Washington. The development will eventually accommodate 1,200-1,500 single family homes, rental condos, and other mixed-use buildings.
Paralleling his values of quality of life, ecology, and community, developer Casey Roloff chose to exclusively use Andersen windows and doors [...]
Blue Moon Rising (BMR) is Maryland’s own green residential community. The 14-acre site overlooks Deep Creek Lake, Maryland’s largest inland body of water. BMR will consist of 13 rental units and a learning center, all serving as a vacation retreat.
Developer Lisa Jan’s mission is to “create a community that harnesses the incredible power of mother [...]
River Crest Elementary School in Hudson, Wisconsin, is the first elementary school in the state (and just the second public elementary school in the nation) to be LEED certified GOLD by the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® for Schools rating system.
The structure was designed using Andersen windows with specially adapted Low-E4™ Sun glazing. The result [...]
Country Living magazine’s House of the Year popped up in Battery Park in the heart of New York City last week. Andersen is proud to be a part of this year’s home, an affordable, 1,900 square-foot, pre-fabricated residence built by Andersen Windows customer New World Home.
This year’s home features Andersen’s new A-Series windows and doors, [...]
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Minnesota Green Communities are hosting the seventh annual Greening the Heartland conference featuring Green by Design on May 19-21. Organizers say this year’s theme, Bridging, “seeks to draw valuable connections between people, places and ideas to help create a sustainable heartland region and beyond.”
Professionals from design, planning, [...]
