• 12
    Aug

    GREEN VALUE FOR RESIDENTIAL BUYERS

    By: Megha Varma, M.A. Outreach Coordinator at Sonoran Sustainable Building Advisor Program The property bubble of the last decade caused artificially high prices to induce rapid development. The market corrected itself in 2008 to reveal the true value of real estate and a chain reaction of devastating events followed:  foreclosures, vacant properties, halts in construction [...]

    posted in Environmental Stewardship, Green Building, Sustainability, Uncategorized by Valley Forward Association

  • 25
    Apr

    SUSTAINABLE BUILDING HAS A TRICKLE UP EFFECT

    By:  Maurita N.H. Walker, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCARB, CSBA Architect, PHX Architecture My own personal definition of sustainability is still forming. I know that sustainability can and should be evident in my core values and practices as not only a Design Professional, but as a citizen of Arizona. One way to approach sustainability is [...]

    posted in Green Building, Sustainability by Valley Forward Association

  • 18
    Apr

    LANDLOCKED TEMPE GROWS UPWARD, FOCUSES ON SUSTAINABILITY

    By: Mayor Hugh Hallman City of Tempe The 22- and 30-story West Sixth apartment towers in Tempe can be seen from as far away as parts of Phoenix and Scottsdale. Watching cranes and construction workers return to the development has brought renewed excitement to our downtown. You can watch long lines of people making their [...]

    posted in Environmental Stewardship, Green Building, Sustainability by Valley Forward Association

  • 04
    Mar

    CHANDLER CITY HALL’S TURNS GREEN

    By: Dave Bigos Mayor and Council Assistant, City of Chandler As the recipient of the 2011 RED (Real Estate and Development) Award for Best Office Project, the buzz continues for Chandler’s new City Hall. And the RED winner is actually quite green. Chandler’s five-story, 120,000-square-foot City Hall and surrounding municipal complex not only provides a [...]

    posted in Environmental Stewardship, Green Building, Renewable Energy, Sustainability by Valley Forward Association

  • 03
    Jan

    THE OASIS IN THE DESERT

    By:  Sue Sylvester, LEED AP BD+C Director of Business Development Adolfson & Peterson Construction In the early 1990s, I was sitting in my new cookie-cutter home in North Scottsdale in a large, sprawling subdivision. I was watching KAET and was riveted to a production of “The Cadillac Desert,” a documentary made from the 1986 book [...]

    posted in Environmental Stewardship, Sustainability by Valley Forward Association

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