The U.S. Green Building Council MN Chapter held its quarterly sustainability meeting this past month. Presenter Patrick Thibaudeau, vice president of HGA Architects and Engineers, offered a sneak preview into the potential future landscape around sustainability. Weaving innovation, time and the purpose of buildings into the mix quickly conjured images of how we might live [...]
Andersen Corporation and its peers are collaboratively developing the window industry’s first product category rules (PCRs) for North America. These rules are designed to help guide and shape the future of product labeling. The intent is to provide a more uniform way for manufacturers to communicate the environmental impacts of their products.
Making the most environmentally [...]
The much anticipated, well attended annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo will take place next week, November 14 -16 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. The event is the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building and is hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
Multiple tours, summits and educational sessions [...]
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, we’d like to thank our customers for their patience as we continue our work in the midst of disaster recovery on the eastern seaboard. Teams across the country worked around the clock to resume operations, while at the same time tending to their families and their homes. From the [...]
The first annual Green Apple Day of Service is taking place across the country and around the world Saturday, September 29, 2012. The U.S. Green Building Council’s Center for Green Schools, along with students, teachers, parents, local chapter members and other green building advocates worldwide are coming together to support healthy, sustainable schools through grass roots community [...]
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Minnesota Chapter is holding their first IMPACT Conference next week near Minneapolis, MN. This year’s theme, building a strong sustainable future, seeks to connect people, places and ideas in an effort to achieve their vision for sustainable buildings and communities.
The all day event kicks off with an awards ceremony [...]
There’s a new and unusual-looking container located alongside the cafeteria loading dock at our corporate headquarters in Minnesota. The green, cylindrical canister perched high upon a stand is our new compost bin! We’re extremely excited to start turning our employee cafeteria scraps into dirt!
With the expert help from our local county office, we measured and [...]
Students from University of Minnesota’s Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (BBE) presented their Capstone Design projects last week. The room was filled with detailed poster boards illustrating their research and findings. Six teams, four to six students each, presented topics ranging from “Algae Dewatering” to “Fungal Lipids from Lignocellulosic Material for Biodiesel Production”. There [...]
Andersen’s award winning combined warm-water recovery and bio-mass steam plant was featured in the December issue of Green Manufacturer. Read about the journey that converted our coal generated steam power source to biomass here!
Two very different organizations, Andersen Corporation and Regions Hospital, share similar goals and paths along their sustainability journeys. Each leads their respective field and while the industries differ, their goals around sustainability do not. Both seek ways to reduce waste to landfills, increase recycling and reduce use of disposable material.
Recently, Andersen and Regions Hospital exchanged [...]
