Mark E. Hanson, Director of Sustainable Services for Appleton-based Hoffman LLC, likes to push boundaries.

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By Jan Basina A major new building project will start the new year off right in the city of La Crosse. Construction is set to begin this month for Gundersen Lutheran’s new 400,000-square-foot, six-floor hospital, along with remodeling of the ...

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By Jan Basina A major new building project will start the new year off right in the city of La Crosse. Construction is set to begin this month for Gundersen Lutheran’s new 400,000-square-foot, six-floor hospital, along with remodeling of the ...

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By Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — An already messy breakup between the Builders Association of the Twin Cities and the nonprofit MN GreenStar organization is getting messier. BATC in fall notified GreenStar the association was pulling out of ...

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By James Briggs A Madison apartment complex that opened this fall has been labeled one of the nation’s most energy-efficient residential buildings. But the label is from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency instead of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership ...

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Big Diverter, Demolition KM Development Corp. and The Brewery project

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Big Diverter, New Construction Wisconsin Division of State Facilities

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By Marie Rohde A U.S. Green Building Council critic has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the organization of fraud in its certification process. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York by New York City contractor Henry Gifford, ...

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By Joe Lanane Road building veterans and environmentalists are at odds over just how green the highway construction industry has become. “There are a lot of environmental groups that argue the paving industry was not very environmentally friendly, so we’ve ...

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The Wisconsin Public Service Corp. announced Tuesday that its new service center in Rhinelander has been awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification as established by the U.S. Green Building Council. WPS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integrys ...

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