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 ...

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 ...

Remember back to September, when we told you about the city's new tool in the quest for sustainability--toilets? The whole section of sidewalk on Ellis and Kansas Streets was repaved using crushed up ...

An official road-building rating system similar to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for buildings may be coming soon. While the Federal Highway Administration prepares to select a ...

The Greenroads Foundation announces that the City of Santa Ana’s $10.2 million Bristol Street Widening Project is the first project in Southern California to achieve Greenroads Bronze Certification ...

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 ...