Located in downtown Edmonton’s Arts and Entertainment District, north of City Hall, the new Royal Alberta Museum is the largest museum in western Canada. Greeting approximately 400,000 visitors annually, the RAM’s 419,000-square-foot building houses 2.5 million items in its collection, as featured in more than 82,000 square feet of exhibits on human and natural history.

Exemplifying sustainable design and leadership, the York Region Municipality’s new Administrative Centre Annex at 17150 Yonge Street in Newmarket, Ontario, recently earned LEED Gold certification by the Canada Green Building Council.

Students, teachers and staff of the newly renovated and expanded Heritage E-STEM Magnet School in West St. Paul, Minnesota, are experiencing brighter, quieter, more modern learning spaces created with Rockfon’s acoustic stone wool ceiling systems.

The highly anticipated Collin College Wylie Campus spans approximately 100 acres and serves up to 7,500 students, plus faculty and staff. Academic courses focus on business, hospitality, fine arts, education, health sciences and core STEM programs.

Patients, staff and visitors to the recently opened Kaiser Hollywood Romaine Medical Offices near West Hollywood, California, are greeted with an inviting, healing-focused, wellness-minded space. Designed by Perkins&Will for Kaiser Permanente, the 50,000-square-foot medical office building features Rockfon’s ceiling solutions in the patient rooms, staff offices and waiting areas.

The Government of Quebec opened the new headquarters for the Commission for Standards, Equity in Health and Safety at Work (Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail) in the heart of the eco-district of D'Estimauville in Quebec City.

Recognized for sustainable design excellence, Toronto Metropolitan University’s Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex in Toronto was honored by American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment’s 25th annual COTE Top Ten Awards. This 28-story vertical campus also earned LEED Gold certification through the Canada Green Building Council.

Architekton designed Helios Education Foundation’s newly constructed, 65,000-square-foot Education Campus in Phoenix. The elegantly angular, desert-hued, post-secondary education facility serves as a beacon of excellence and a critical resource for the education community.

A symbol of downtown Edmonton’s renaissance, Enbridge Centre’s Class AA 575,500-square-foot office building earned LEED Gold certification for Commercial Interiors through the Canada Green Building Council. Continuing to demonstrate its commitment to sustainability, the property also earned LEED Platinum, the highest level of certification, for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance.

Providing a collaborative, effective and sustainably designed workspace for Waste Management Inc.’s nearly 2,000 Houston-area employees, its new headquarters has earned U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED v4 Platinum for Commercial Interiors.