scholarly journals Case Study on Sustainable office space of the LEED Green Building in the United States - Focused on the Materials and Resources of Indoor Evaluation Factors -

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-185
Author(s):  
Sook-Nyung Ha ◽  
Young-Ho Han
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Green Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Office Space

scholarly journals Building Green Infrastructure Across University Campuses: A Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11S) ◽  
pp. 498-502
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Green Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Regional University ◽  
Case Application

Universities and corporations across the United States are investing in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) green buildings as they are more economically, socially, and environmentally friendly. By means of a case study, this paper shows how a regional university in the Midwest part of the United States, has successfully incorporated sustainability as its core value and has made significant progress in all areas of the triple bottom line. This paper focuses mainly on its commitments to LEED® green building certification and green infrastructure. It discusses its journey and success in these two areas through a real case application of converting one of its oldest buildings on campus from a “no” LEED® certification to “Silver” LEED® certification. Throughout this paper, specific recommendations as to how these initiatives can be implemented across the globe, and the benefits that can be expected to be accrued, are presented.

Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Highly Skilled

This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better understanding of the gendered importance of social relations for the future mobility aspirations of scientists working abroad.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

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