We asked our ZGF sustainability leaders across the firm about the solutions and innovations that are inspiring their work.

ZGF is honored to join the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Sector Climate Pledge, standing with our nation’s leading healthcare organizations in recognizing and rising to the challenge of climate change.

This is a story of how community engagement in the urban planning and architectural design process not only created an inclusive and equitable environment that reflects the community in which it’s planted, but ultimately blurred the lines between community and institution.

ZGF and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center developed and illustrated an original comic book to educate families and staff about the novel spectral lighting system in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

ZGF shares ideas and solutions to ensure pediatric behavioral health patients receieve the right care, in the right setting, before they end up in the emergency department.

Designs for the airports of tomorrow must place sustainability front and center. Sharron van der Meulen, Managing Partner of ZGF’s Portland office, shares her thoughts on what the future holds.

ZGF Partner Victoria Nichols shares lessons learned in our efforts to make the design process more inclusive.

ZGF and the University of Washington Applied Research Consortium (ARC) have released Lark Spectral Lighting v3.0.

Download "Concrete: A Pragmatic Approach to Lowering Embodied Carbon," an easy-to-use interactive guide for reducing embodied carbon of concrete in the built environment. 

Concrete: A Pragmatic Approach to Lowering Embodied Carbon is an easy-to-use interactive guide for reducing embodied carbon of concrete in the built environment.

Earlier this month California became the first state to adopt unprecedented building code changes to limit embodied carbon in non-residential buildings and K-12 schools.

ZGF has joined the First Movers Coalition to send a strong market demand signal for the emerging low and zero carbon technologies essential for a net-zero economy and the impactful role architects can have in that transition.