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On April 8, 2012, Smith was named Overall Winner: Greatest Implementation of Green Building Innovations in the City of Houston's 2011 Green Office Challenge, the nation's largest Green Office Challenge for 2011. [6] Smith's headquarters have been certified to ISO 14001 since 2005 and to R2 since 2015.
Texan by Nature 20 (TxN20) Honoree, an official ranking of the Top 20 Texas-based companies leading conservation and sustainability in 2019 and 2020 [30] [31] National Association of Home Builders Pillars of the Industry Award: Best in Green Market Rate Multifamily Community for Plaza Verde at University of California, Irvine in 2019 [32]
The Beck Group was founded in 1912 by Henry C. Beck [4] in Houston, Texas as a general contractor [2] as Central Contracting Company. In 1934, it moved its headquarters to Dallas, [1] a requirement for building the city's Cotton Exchange Building. [2] In 1946, Henry C. Beck, then the sole proprietor, changed the name to the Henry C. Beck Company.
The American Sustainable Business Council said Senate Bill 13 has harmed its corporate and individual members, who represent more than 200,000 businesses, despite Texas portraying itself as a ...
Amid rising mortgage rates and general unaffordability nationwide, cities in Florida and Texas are emerging as havens for homebuyers.While the broader U.S. housing market continues to favor ...
Sustainable construction aims to reduce the negative health and environmental impacts caused by the construction process and by the operation and use of buildings and the built environment. [1] It can be seen as the construction industry's contribution to more sustainable development. Precise definitions vary from place to place, and are ...
A Zero-Energy Building (ZEB), also known as a Net Zero-Energy (NZE) building, is a building with net zero energy consumption, meaning the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is equal to the amount of renewable energy created on the site [1] [2] or in other definitions by renewable energy sources offsite, using technology such as heat pumps, high efficiency windows ...
Texas was once again a leading state on the annual Forbes Fortune 500 list in 2023. The Lone Star State was so well represented that it made up more than 10% of the list as it boasted 14 companies ...