Adam McMillen is IMEG’s National Director of Sustainability. Adam talks about his goals, industry challenges, and his bucket list in the following Q&A. Describe your goals as IMEG’s National Director of Sustainability. My goal is to scale IMEG’s sustainability impact across the country. Given our increasing size and the number of high-impact projects, small changes
Learn how sustainable home design reduces the structure’s carbon footprint, improves its energy-efficiency, and can provide long-term cost savings.
By Brian Billman and Brandon Fortier With U.S. lab CO2 emissions coming in at around 40 million metric tons per year, the science and technology industry is in need of benchmarking data to track emissions and begin lowering its CO2 output. The International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) is taking on the task with its
Kat Klingenberg, executive director and co-founder of the non-profit organization Phius, talks about the history and current state of passive building in the latest episode of the IMEG podcast, The Future Built Smarter. “Passive building principles are not rocket science,” she says. “We’re talking about continuous insulation, airtight construction, no thermal bridging in the envelope,
IMEG’s refreshed corporate Sustainability Plan is examined in a series of episodes on the firm’s podcast, The Future Built Smarter. Key aspects of the initiative are discussed in the first episode by Adam McMillen, director of sustainability, and Taylor Gawthorp-Cruse, senior sustainability and energy consultant. Designed to integrate environmentally friendly practices at the firm’s offices,
This episode features Missy Stults, Sustainability and Innovations Director for the City of Ann Arbor, MI, one of 11 communities being funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office to design a community geothermal heating and cooling system.
Through new rules released September 12, 2023, the DOB has amended Local Law 97 to allow building owners to mitigate fines in the first reporting period, 2024 – 2029, by demonstrating a “good faith effort” to de-carbonize their buildings, which is defined in the new rules.
This episode offers a preview of UW Health’s Eastpark Medical Center in Madison, WI. Expected to be fully open by Fall 2024, the seven-story outpatient facility will offer advanced imaging and lab services, destination services, multidisciplinary adult specialties, and women’s complex care.
IMEG produced 21 new episodes in 2023 for the firm’s podcast, The Future Built Smarter. While all episodes provided thoughtful insight into a variety of topics, here are several of our favorite quotes from our guests, along with with a link to their episode. 1. “The knee-jerk reaction is, I don’t want to lose my
If you’re attending the 2023 Healthcare Facilities Symposium—or any other healthcare conference on the horizon—you can gain some insight into some of the formal or informal discussions sure to be heard by perusing the following curated collection of recent IMEG healthcare-related blogs, executive guides, and podcasts.
