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Concrete house to be energy efficient and tornado resistant
It's concrete construction with purpose. The concrete walls soak up the sun's heat, and in this experimental design, they do more. "Of course when he first came to us, that's crazy talk," says Dave Robertson of Prestressed Casting Company.
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Building Sustainability into the Construction Sector
Explore justmeans.com (May 11 2012)
Sustainability is a big issue in the construction sector. According to the U.S. Green Building Council, 39 percent of the country's CO2 emissions come from buildings, which also account for 40 percent of energy consumption, 13 percent of water consumption and 15 percent of GDP. Such impressive figures spell opportunity for the sustainable building sector. The council manages the internationally recognized LEED certification issued to buildings that meet certain environmental benchmarks, includin
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Mentions: U.S. Green Building Council
What green projects are worth the extra cost?
Explore heraldtribune.com (May 11 2012)
If you want to build a really green house, how much time should you spend looking for products that carry a green certification? Not a lot, advised builders and architects known for their "greenness." Though some green attributes, such as recycled content, were very important and might lead them to consider a particular product, these experts said the presence or absence of a green certification rarely influenced their selections. For these hardheaded professionals, durability, a good t (Read Full Article)
Mentions: U.S. Green Building Council
Quality and Value Driving Growth in the Green Building Market, According to ...
Explore RealEstateRama (May 2 2012)
Energy efficiency efforts become commonplace in new construction and remodeling projects, while remodelers place high value on waste management and sustainable materials. WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 2, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — McGraw-Hill Construction, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), today released its latest SmartMarket Report: New and Remodeled Green Homes: Transforming the Residential Market at the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) National Green Building Conference and
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Pushing the boundaries of integrated design
Explore Daily Journal of Commerce (Apr 27 2012)
Architects, engineers and general contractors for years have touted their devotion to an integrated process. But as the greenest fringes labor to push projects toward sustainability further and faster, one man is calling for an end to the buzz surrounding integrated design. Scott Lewis, founder and CEO of Portland-based firm Brightworks, said it’s time for green building leaders to stop resting on the laurels of integrated design and to focus on a method guided completely by sustainability goals
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Greener Building Materials - Advances impacting industry sustainability
Explore Construction Digital (Apr 23 2012)
View this feature in our beautifully-rendered April issue of Construction Digital, now live The building sector is on the front lines of the sustainability movement – meaning that innovations within the industry stand to make a substantial impact on climate change and the environment. This month, we’re taking a look at developments in building materials that promise to make green building a smarter, more efficient and effective vehicle for a shift in the global paradigm of sustainability. Phase
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“Life Cycle Analyzer” supports sustainable solutions in concrete
Explore 4-traders : one website, all markets (Apr 12 2012)
With the newly developed "Life Cycle Analyzer" BASF helps to improve concrete characteristics. The special software offers solutions in major concrete improvement areas like process efficiency, energy reduction, material optimization, and enhanced quality specifications for manufacturers and users of concrete. The analysis covers the entire life cycle of concrete in all its different types of production, such as ready-mix and prefabrication. This new method has been specially tailored for the Eu
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McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge Outlook Report 2012
Explore multivu.com (Apr 11 2012)
Housing and commercial building construction starts may improve, but will be offset by weakness in the public works and institutional building sectors
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Disaster Resilience Part of Sustainability, Too
The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building at University of California, San Francisco. (Bruce Damonte, courtesy Rafael Vinoly Architects) As eco-savvy as the earthquake-prone Left Coast might be, it’s probably safe to bet that going green won’t be the first thing to come to mind when the Big One hits Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, or San Francisco. Nevertheless, green-building advocates and disaster planners are finding common ground as they try to convince cost-conscious building
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Construction officials pushing prefab revival
Explore HartfordBusiness.com (Apr 9 2012)
Connecticut construction officials are urging the industry to renew a building technique hundreds of years old as a way to save money and increase productivity today. (Read Full Article)
Report Shows Environmental Benefits of Retrofits
Explore eco-structure.com (Apr 3 2012)
A recent study by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Preservation Green Lab shows that retrofits of existing projects are nearly always greener than new construction projects.
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The Deep Green Building Next Door
Explore EarthTechling (Mar 21 2012)
Radically green but deeply pragmatic? The Clock Shadow Building in Milwaukee, isn’t the first Midwestern building project we’ve seen to take on the deep green challenge set by the Pacific-Northwest-based Living Buildings Institute, but it may be the first to truly imagine a world where deep green looks pretty much like the building next door. Granted, there are the telltale touches—the flecks of paint on the building’s brick facade, for example, that bear testament to the bricks’ previous lives
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Mentions: U.S. Green Building Council
The Brilliant Economics of Green Buildings
Explore forbes.com (Mar 19 2012)
Say what you will about the benefits of clean energy or the costs of pollution, the jury has returned an ambiguous verdict on the greening of the commercial real-estate market. The niche has become mainstream. Anyone who says green buildings, which are certified by third-party verifiers as demonstrating superior environmental performance and resource efficiency, are “boutique” has not been paying attention. The commercial buildings sector boasts the most explosive growth in green building. In
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Tensioning Eases Stress on a 13-Story Sustainability Showcase
Explore enr.construction.com (Mar 14 2012)
Structural engineer Steven Tipping doesn't often attend industry events, let alone introduce himself to keynote speakers. But he is glad he did just that on Dec. 5, 2007. So is the team for the $145.5-million San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Headquarters, a nearly finished job with a difficult past.
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Mentions: U.S. Green Building Council
4 Lessons Learned From Designing the World's Greenest Building
Explore GOOD Home Page (Mar 5 2012)
When it comes to green building, the design firm Perkins+Will is doing pretty well. They have more LEED-accredited employees than any other design firm in the country. They’ve created a gutsy list of ethical, healthy building materials to guide design and construction decisions. And they've made their mark with inventive reuse and innovative projects . These sustainability successes mean that ...
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Green Building Incentive Trends: Strengthening Communities, Building Green ...
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the National Association of Counties (NACo) released a report that finds that the most attractive incentives for greening American communities are also the most basic: tax incentives, density/floor area ratio bonuses and expedited permitting. The report also found that communities should select incentives based primarily on a local government's financial situation and desired impact on the construction industry. And, the simpler the policy, the more
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Are Green Buildings Also Safer Buildings?
Explore greenbiz.com (Mar 2 2012)
Everyone knows that green buildings use less energy to operate. And studies show they’re healthier for occupants, which makes for happier residents and more productive workers. But safer and more durable? Seems so. A study released this week suggests that greener construction can advance building resiliency. To me, this link seems intuitive: green buildings are generally designed and built more carefully, with better materials and tighter finishes. It turns out that efficiency-focused features m
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Mentions: U.S. Green Building Council
Environmental Impacts of Concrete Report Released for Public Comment
Explore Concrete Construction (Mar 2 2012)
Researchers at the University of Washington's College of Built Environment's Carbon Leadership Forum developed standards to track and report the environmental footprint of concrete.
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What LEED Means to Us
Explore USGBC Blog (Feb 29 2012)
This entry is cross-posted from the Brewery Vivant blog.
We recently received our LEED Silver (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification at Brewery Vivant and found out at the end of the process that we are the first commercial microbrewery in the United States to do so (or as Mayor Heartwell put it, the first in the galaxy). That is pretty cool. However, we did not go through this process just to have a marketing tool to talk about. We see this plaque that hangs on our wall as a symbol of the way we want to run our ...
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Building Innovations, Trends and Best Practices from Around the World ...
Explore Environmental Expert (Feb 20 2012)
/PRNewswire/ -- Whether in , staying competitive in today's building environment means keeping pace with rapid advancements in building trends and environmental issues. Carrier, the world's leader in high technology heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) solutions and a part of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), is making it easy to learn the latest in green building technologies, sustainable design and engineering practices, bringing some of the world's experts tog (Read Full Article)
Energy saving techniques and green architecture methods stand to cut costs ...
Explore La Jolla Light (Feb 18 2012)
By Paul Benton Earlier this month, the research and advocacy group known as Architecture 2030 released a report indicating that the implementation of green building and energy saving techniques stands to save the U.S. building sector trillions of dollars in energy costs while conserving significant resources nationwide. The report, which was created using data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) in association with the U.S. Department of Energy, indicates that Americans will save $
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