…And to All a LEED Night…
HOK St. Louis Senior Project Manager and SVP Dennis Laflen, a 42-year veteran of HOK (he joined the firm when he was 19), just passed the LEED Green Associate exam! To celebrate this momentous...
View ArticleInterview with Gary J. Saulson: PNC Bank
With more than $290 billion in assets and approximately 55,000 employees, PNC is one of the largest financial services companies in the country. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PNC also has more...
View ArticleProject Haiti: The First Charrette
HOK is the USGBC’s official design partner for Project Haiti, a pro bono effort to build a LEED-certified orphanage and children’s center in Port au Prince. The original structure was severely damaged...
View ArticleProject Haiti Takes Center Stage at Greenbuild 2011
HOK is the USGBC’s official design partner for Project Haiti, a pro bono effort to build a LEED-certified orphanage and children’s center in Port au Prince. Sustainable Design Director Mary Ann Lazarus...
View ArticleHOK Is Designing Porsche’s New U.S. Headquarters and Customer Experience Center
HOK is designing Porsche Cars North America’s new headquarters in Atlanta. The project includes a contemporary workplace for up to 400 people, a Technical Service and Training Center, and a Customer...
View ArticleAirport Design Helps Indianapolis Make Strong Super Bowl Impression
Excitement for Super Bowl XLVI is building, and the Indianapolis Airport Authority and Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee’s preparations are already paying off. The Authority is prepared to...
View ArticleMara Baum Named a LEED Fellow
Mara Baum, HOK’s Healthcare Sustainable Design Leader, has been elevated to the LEED Fellow class of 2013 by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). According to the USGBC, the LEED Fellow program...
View ArticleCelebrating 20 Years of the US Green Building Council: LEED Then and Now
King Abdulah University of Science and Technology is one of the largest LEED Platinum projects in the world. Photo: Jean Picoulet I have a vivid memory of an architecture professor telling me that...
View ArticleLEED Lessons Learned at Healthcare Design Conference
Kim Shinn and I presented a session on lessons learned from the first three years of LEED for Healthcare at Greenbuild 2013. The session and the research we conducted before and after it was extremely...
View ArticleBuilding Codes and Rating Systems: Carrots or Sticks?
Thanks to Anica Landreneau, director of Sustainable Consulting, for this guest post. Greenbuild is always a great time to meet up with clients, peers and industry leaders while learning about the...
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