Tag: Landscaping

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is the West Coast's first LEED Platinum children's hospital and only the second children's hospital in the world to earn that status.

LandscapeCard goes after smartphone homescreens to help green industry companies acquire new business and retain clients.

The National Association of Landscape Professionals shares its forecast of landscape trends expected to impact planning, design, and maintenance.

HP Inc.’s Boise, ID property is the first corporate campus in the world to be certified using the SITES v2 rating system.

Designers of a LEED certified office park utilized an existing water vault as a centerpiece of drainage and irrigation.

Six ways to improve office facility management operations — and the employee/tenant experience in the meantime.

After more than four years of unrelenting drought, water rate hikes and usage restrictions are forcing businesses across California to rethink their landscaping.

A new approach to landscaping suburban office developments that integrates natural areas and provides more open, collaborative spaces can meet the demands of this next generation of office workers.

A long-term effort toward sustainable practices at the University of California, Davis delivers results.

Even the best laid sustainability initiatives can be foiled by unaware, unresponsive, or just plain unwilling occupants.

What do I do if my plant wants to reclaim cooling tower blowdown water and use it for the purposes of landscape irrigation?

Greener Groundskeeping: The SITES rating system aims to generate the sustainability and resiliency of landscapes.

The new projects join 23 others across the country that have achieved certification since June 2010 as SITES pilot projects. These diverse projects represent landscapes of various sizes, locations, types, and costs.

A facility management professional in the United Arab Emirates struggles to define hard service landscaping tenders.

Vetting landscape service providers ensures they add value to site maintenance plans. From the April 2013 issue.

A leak about as small as the tip of a ballpoint pen (or 1/32nd of an inch) can waste about 6,300 gallons of water per month. As the weather warms up and facility managers concentrate their attention on landscaping, sprinkler systems should come under scrutiny.

The standard, in part, will address the importance of safety in electrical devices in landscape irrigation controllers while establishing a basis to ensure the safety, function, and durability of common electrical devices.

Businesses should continue to be vigilant about keeping flying, biting insects at bay, even as the warm summer days draw to an end.

According to the original image, this is "Viagra's head office in Toronto, Canada. Seriously, it is!" At least according to the meme. Alas, this is not true. So where is this place and is the shrubbery placement significant? Turns out, the "unfortunate topiary" may indeed be fitting.

How do facility management professionals address specific landscaping issues that deal with ponds and marshes?