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 ...

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 ...

The international environmental group Greenroads gave Kirkland its highest rating for the Northeast 120th Street project, which won silver certification and earned 46 out of 118 points. “Other ...

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 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.