Meliora Design’s multidisciplinary team of engineers works with clients ranging from the Philadelphia Zoo to the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, harnessing a range of technologies like rain gardens and porous asphalt to manage stormwater. “You don’t get to sustainable design with one discipline — it’s an integrated process,” says Meliora founder Michele Adams. “We’re engineers
MoreFlooring product being recycled at Mannington's facility in New JerseyFlooring can make a huge impact on the design of a room. But the materials floors are made from - wood, tile, or vinyl – can impact the planet, as well, and often not in a good way. There can be a lot of toxic stuff
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Virtually indestructible, beautiful and sustainable to boot. In the world of building materials, that’s a powerful combination of traits, something you would expect from something cutting edge, like ...linoleum. Once considered passé and now marking its 150 anniversary, linoleum is finding new popularity as a natural flooring product made from the renewable materials like solidified
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Mayor Michael Nutter (left) and Howard Neukrug (right) share a light moment with some local youths
Howard Neukrug has been called a visionary, a great thinker and a national leader in sustainability. But back in 1978, he was just a mild-mannered engineer, fresh out of the University of Pennsylvania and looking for a job. “There was
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