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Restoring Community to a Little-Known Part of Gotham
The historic red brick warehouses at West 126th St. and Amsterdam Avenue in West Harlem have been many things over their lifetime. For their first century, they were the epicenter of New York City’s burgeoning beer industry, until Prohibition officers dumped their contents into Harlem sewers in 1923. They became a cold storage facility, a laundry, and later housed the opulent furs of wealthy Manhattanites.View Article Details for Restoring Community to a Little-Known Part of Gotham 
EFC's Sustainable Maryland Releases 2025 Annual Report
2025 saw Sustainable Maryland continue to expand our efforts to convene, connect and inspire. We expanded our community to 94 municipalities; awarded the second year of SM Action Grants; instituted quarterly Happy Hours across the state; and continued our collaboration with the national Sustainable States Network.View Article Details for EFC's Sustainable Maryland Releases 2025 Annual Report 
New Grant Brings Steel Appeal to UMD Design Studios
The University of Maryland’s architecture program has been awarded an inaugural grant from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) to integrate structural steel design methods into its undergraduate and graduate design studios. The four-year, $110,000 grant will help deliver new teaching and learning opportunities to all architecture students, from field trips and industry mentorship to modeling kits and hands-on workshops.View Article Details for New Grant Brings Steel Appeal to UMD Design Studios 
DC’s Sewage Spill is a Harbinger to Troubled Waters, Says Hendricks
In the history of U.S. sewage spills, none has evoked a region’s collective “ick” reflex like the massive outburst of effluent into the Potomac River when a 6-foot-wide pipe broke on Jan. 19 upstream from Washington, D.C. By the time the rupture was fixed, enough raw wastewater had gushed out to fill 360 Olympic-size swimming pools.View Article Details for DC’s Sewage Spill is a Harbinger to Troubled Waters, Says Hendricks 
In Student ‘Shark Tank’ Competition, Creativity Is in the Water
With its tree-lined sidewalks, carpet-like quads and manicured flowerbeds, the archetypical college campus isn’t thirsty for scenery. But its scenery is thirsty all the time, gulping millions of gallons of water a year to keep up appearances. A pitch for a modular vegetation wall that could keep universities (and other properties) lush through rain- and gray water harvesting, filtering and storage was one of two concepts to take the top prize this year at ArchiNova, the annual “Shark Tank”-style ideas competition for University of Maryland architecture students.View Article Details for In Student ‘Shark Tank’ Competition, Creativity Is in the Water