What do you do with 5 tons of old toilets? The city of Bellingham, Wash., found a creative (and sustainable) answer: Make sidewalk. A section of a sidewalk installed as part of a road improvement ...

Will a new LEED-like road certification program help the Oregon Department of Transportation do more for biking and walking access? According to the Greenroads website, the program gives points to ...

A newly released rating system, Greenroads, aims to do for road construction what the LEED system has done for the building industry. The document assigns up to 118 credits for sustainable practices.

Greenroads, a rating system developed at the University of Washington to promote sustainable roadway construction, awarded its first official certification to a Bellingham project that incorporates ...

Photo: Steve Muench, a University of Washington assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. Road construction is a more than $80 billion annual industry in the United States. Yet ...

A short street in Kirkland has earned the honor of being the greenest road in the world -- at least by one measure. Earlier this month, Northeast 120th Street Extension earned the highest rating in ...

The Greenroads Foundation announced that the Bagby Street Reconstruction Project in Houston, Texas has become the first project to achieve Greenroads Certification in the State of Texas, receiving a ...

If you take a stroll along a newly paved six-block stretch of downtown Bellingham, Wash., you'll be excused if you think you put your foot in a toilet. The sidewalk contains 5 tons of crushed potty.

Multnomah County turned a 1925-built bridge serving as a traffic pinch-point into an award-winning new design when it created a fresh Sellwood Bridge across the Willamette River. Now that bridge has ...

Road construction is a more than $80 billion annual industry in the United States. Yet nothing comparable to the LEED rating system for buildings, or the Energy Star system for appliances, exists for ...

Greenroads Foundation is pleased to announce that the $1.26 billion CAD South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) Project, part of Canada and British Columbia’s multi‐billion dollar Asia‐Pacific Gateway ...