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Among Better Buildings program solutions within the industrial and commercial real estate sector is Link Logistics’ pursuit of solar power at its sites. The company recently was named a 2023 Energy Star Partner of the Year.

Photo courtesy of Link Logistics

The U.S. Department of Energy on Monday published the 2023 Better Buildings Initiative Progress Report, summarizing the collective $18.5 billion in savings and other impacts of the program originally launched in 2011. Initiatives have been launched at more than 900 organizations, including at 30 Fortune 100 companies and organizations representing 14% of the U.S. manufacturing energy footprint and 13% of total commercial building space.

In July 2022 Site Selection talked to Better Buildings Director and U.S. DoE Senior Program Advisor Maria T. Vargas about the program’s challenges and evolution, and corporate exemplars of sustainability.

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Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon, Installation View, Photo ©Tate (Joe Humphrys)

Hyundai Motor Company and Tate Modern earlier this month announced the opening of “Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon” a monumental sculptural installation at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London that was created by artist El Anatsui, an artist born in Ghana who has primarily lived and worked in Nigeria. “Thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments have been stitched together into three expansive abstract compositions,” the announcement said, the undulating forms “reflecting on the expanse of human history and the elemental power of the natural world. Each sculpture refers to Anatsui’s interest in the movement and migration of goods and people during the transatlantic slave trade.”

Turbine Hall, formerly the Bankside Power Station, was designated as the Tate’s new international modern and contemporary art gallery site in 1994. “Since it opened in May 2000, more than 40 million people have visited Tate Modern,” the Tate says. “It is one of the UK’s top three tourist attractions and generates an estimated £100 million in economic benefits to London annually.”