‘Greener Pittsburgh’ to give businesses environmental support Wednesday, June 02, 2010 By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh City Councilman Bill Peduto and representatives of the business and nonprofit communities this morning announced the creation of a kind of chamber of commerce... 

March 2008 “PITTSBURGH, Feb 28–The Mosites Company and The Design Alliance Architects have announced that Building C—the Borders Books building in the Eastside retail development in East Liberty, has been awarded the LEED Core and Shell Gold Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council... 

August 2007 “A lot of good design decisions don’t follow the LEED matrix,” admits Christine Mondor, AIA, LEED AP and principal of evolve environment :: architecture. She explains that her biggest fear is that LEED will be seen as a certificate so formulaic that it can be achieved without thinking... 

November 2006 “Architect Marc Mondor, principal of the firm evolve and Friendship resident, understands the attraction. In fact, he says, “I don’t see why this wouldn’t be as desirable a place to be in as Squirrel Hill or Shadyside.”  →

” Earn one point for abating and developing a brownfield site, two for recycling 75% of construction waste, and another point for providing two preferred parking places for hybrid cars. Welcome to the environmentally friendly game of green building. These and many other potential credits are based... 

” As an environmental consultant who launched his own firm last year, Marc Mondor is growing a business by helping clients understand comparative shades of green. That would be both the financial kind and the kind that helps in small ways to preserve the environment. “ December 2005 ”... 

December 2006 “Marc and Christine Mondor, two heads talking at once, are the corporate culture at evolve EA. Spouses, co-principals, warriors for cutting-edge Environmental Architecture, in their own quiet way the Mondors are propounding a new-century agenda, a revolution writ small. “We seek... 

October 2006 “Evolve Environment :: Architecture enters the awards with the evolvehouse, a prototype for sustainable living: an elegant and compact living structure beneath a butterfly roof. Here, mechanical systems, material selection and solar orientation are aspects essential to an overall approach... 

Fall 2006 “Marc Mondor, a principal architect with evolve EA in Pittsburgh, stands on the green roof of a Giant Eagle grocery store in the city’s Shadyside neighborhood. Mondor was a consultant with the supermarket chain in the renovation of the existing building to meet green design standards.”  →

November 2006 “To an architect, living in Pittsburgh is kind of like being a kid in a candy store. While solid-brick homes and rolling park landscapes may not whet your appetite, these assests taste like opportunity for Marc Mondor. He has a passion for sustainable architecture and “green”... 

Vol 5 Issue “Part of that team was Marc Mondor, LEED consultant, who practices at evolve Environmental Architecture in Pittsburgh; he was also a consultant on the Giant Eagle in Brunswick, the country’s first LEED rated supermarket, covered in these pages in the November 2004 issue. “This... 

Builder’s Exchange “Going for the Gold” Vol 5 Issue Part of that team was Marc Mondor, LEED consultant, who practices at evolveEA in Pittsburgh; he was also a consultant on the Giant Eagle in Brunswick, the country’s first LEED rated supermarket, covered in these pages in the...