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Recycled Fibers Make Low-VOC Textiles
KnollTextiles' Harmony Collection includes four styles featuring recycled content.
Deck Board Uses Recycled Aluminum
Wahoo Decks' AridDek is a waterproof aluminum deck board.
Wetland System Reuses Water
The Living Machine from Worrell Water Technologies is a decentralized, on-site ecological wastewater treatment and reuse system.
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Light Shelf Brings Daylight Deep Into Interiors
The Luminance light shelf from YKK AP is made of aluminum extrusions and a honeycomb core panel with a highly reflective surface that diffuses daylight deep into inteiror spaces.
Solar Awning System Is Motorized
Tendal One, manufactured by Durasol Awnings Inc., is a motorized, retractable solar awning system designed for balconies, decks, verandas, terraces, and roof gardens.
urban implosion
Focusing on compact urban planning, Arcosanti is a living laboratory for an anti-sprawl city.
Scheduled for completion in 2011, NAU's Health and Learning Center is aiming for LEED Gold certification.
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication creates headlines of its own with a sustainable new structure.
Two rival Arizona universities work together to build the Biomedical Collaborative #1 in Phoenix, designed by SmithGroup.
Who’s the greenest of them all?
A look at how competition fosters innovation in the sustainable building realm.
greening phoenix
Dr. Robert Melnick, executive dean of the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, discusses the Green Phoenix plan.
Home office
Designing with the desert heat in mind, [merrz]project provides a versatile structure that accomodates a variety of functions while keeping operating costs low.
It’s a gas
Using a series of wells or blower, flare, or vacuum systems, landfill gas can be extracted and converted into usable energy
listening to the land
The fundamental principals of landscape architecture and site design are now resonating with developers, investors, and corporate users and in turn, also are influencing building design.
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose—Doing Business By Respecting the Earth
Ray C. Anderson's new book chronicles the journey of transforming a carpet manufacturing giant into a green leader
Happenings: The latest green building industry news
A look at the latest headlines and developements in the green building industry
The Second annual Evergreen Awards
This year's Evergreen Awards competition recognizes five winners in three categories of sustainable design and building performance
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The online calculator, commissioned by the Green Building Initiative, is for use with the Green Globes system.
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RETROFITS is part quiz show, part speed game that tasks players with retrofitting an existing building to be more energy efficient.
Combining a number of sustainable attributes, the new facility for studying cognitive behavioral psychotherapy achieves LEED Platinum.
Einstein A/U Architects and Walsh Construction create a sustainable home away from home for oncology patients and their caregivers.
Lord, Aeck & Sargent designed a $16 million, 200-bed facility to house Young Harris College's growing student population.
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New York City passes its Greener, Greater Buildings Plan, which includes specific targets to reduce the city's carbon footprint.
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Recapping 10 years of work, the EPA publishes "Celebrating a Decade of Energy Star Buildings," which details program milestones and case studies.
The Building Energy Quotient program, or Building EQ, will examine energy use for all building types except residential
The new VOC-free EcoGlass is the latest line of textured architectural glass from Bendheim.
Quad-Lock’s new Extra Panel integrates with other Quad-Lock components to increase an insulation system’s R-Value (as high as R-84 with reinforced concrete walls) and make the most of the thermal mass capacity of a concrete structure.
Smith & Fong Co. has developed a new soy-based adhesive to use with its line of Plyboo bamboo plywood and flooring.
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Humanscale’s program, in conjunction with First Energy Group, provides an audit of a company’s lighting system.
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Zerofootprint’s TalkingPlug™ tracks and reports energy use and carbon output from applicances.
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The subsidiary of Underwriters Laboratories announces plans to develop new standards for stone, ceramic, clay, and glass building materials and windows.
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Free online carbon calculators aims to help design professionals target and complete carbon-neutral buildings.
California Institute of Technology earns LEED Gold with one of three new green buildings completed or underway on campus.
Celebrating two projects at once, Mars Chocolate opens its renovated headquarters in Hackettstown, N.J., and a new solar garden, the largest installed by a food manufacturer.
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The Perkins+Will Precautionary List examines chemicals listed by government agencies as having negative health issues, the classes of building materials where they might be found, and available alternatives.
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A new report from USGBC and Booz Allen Hamilton shows green construction to contribute $554 billion to the U.S. GDP between 2009 and 2013
I long ago accepted the fact that book stores are a dangerous place for me.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its first WaterSense specification for a commercial building product: urinals.
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The White House continues to make sustainability a priority.
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The economic downturn in the commercial real estate industry has diminished the importance of climate change and alternative energy sources as a factor in real estate investment decisions, according to a survey of U.S.
Energy technologies developed for the Solar Decathlon may take on a second life in mass-market production following the biannual competition.
KnollTextiles' Harmony Collection includes four styles featuring recycled content.
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Wahoo Decks' AridDek is a waterproof aluminum deck board.
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The Living Machine from Worrell Water Technologies is a decentralized, on-site ecological wastewater treatment and reuse system.
The Luminance light shelf from YKK AP is made of aluminum extrusions and a honeycomb core panel with a highly reflective surface that diffuses daylight deep into inteiror spaces.
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Tendal One, manufactured by Durasol Awnings Inc., is a motorized, retractable solar awning system designed for balconies, decks, verandas, terraces, and roof gardens.
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Focusing on compact urban planning, Arcosanti is a living laboratory for an anti-sprawl city.
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Scheduled for completion in 2011, NAU's Health and Learning Center is aiming for LEED Gold certification.
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication creates headlines of its own with a sustainable new structure.
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Two rival Arizona universities work together to build the Biomedical Collaborative #1 in Phoenix, designed by SmithGroup.
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A look at how competition fosters innovation in the sustainable building realm.
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Dr. Robert Melnick, executive dean of the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, discusses the Green Phoenix plan.
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Designing with the desert heat in mind, [merrz]project provides a versatile structure that accomodates a variety of functions while keeping operating costs low.
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Using a series of wells or blower, flare, or vacuum systems, landfill gas can be extracted and converted into usable energy
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The fundamental principals of landscape architecture and site design are now resonating with developers, investors, and corporate users and in turn, also are influencing building design.
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Ray C. Anderson's new book chronicles the journey of transforming a carpet manufacturing giant into a green leader
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Team Germany’s surPLUShome took first place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon.
Birdair’s architectural umbrellas are pre-assembled and can be installed on most surfaces
Quality Attributes Software’s iBPortal Intelligent Building Management tool helps track environmental and financial savings
Ceracasa partners with Pantheon Floor Solutions to bring Bionictile to the U.S. market
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iLevel Forte single-member sizing software helps residential and light commercial construction professionals size framing members for floors, roofs and walls.
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The EMerge Alliance introduces a standard for use of DC power in commercial interiors
Jonathan Rose Companies and Malkin Properties opens a 50-unit, affordable housing development in Stamford, Conn., designed by Perkins Eastman that aims for LEED Gold.
Neptune, NJ-based JSUMC opens its $300-million Transforming Care healthcare project, featuring a renovation and expansion by WHR Architects.
WATG and IDEO take home first prize in the competition, which tasked entrants to embrace sustainability in the suite life.
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The agency recognizes primary and secondary schools using alternative energy.
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As part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, 100 private companies, utilities, manufacturers, cities and other partners receive funds.
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By this time next week, thousands of environmental enthusiasts will have descended upon the southwestern U.S., setting up camp for several days of networking, education and plenty of sustainable innovation.
This year's Evergreen Awards competition recognizes five winners in three categories of sustainable design and building performance
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Kansas City, Kan.–based architect Robert Berkebile, principal of BNIM Architects, was awarded a $100,000 Heinz Award for his work promoting green building design.
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The kudos for Make It Right New Orleans, the post-Hurricane Katrina housing initiative launched by Brad Pitt, continue to roll in.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a plan for a national carbon tax, an idea he first put forth in 2007.
Construction is under way in Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, on Eco City, a creative-industrial complex on the city's harbor.
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Under the act, any future construction of state buildings in New York, as well as any substantial renovations to existing buildings, must conform to green building principles that will be developed by OGS.
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The California Sustainability Alliance is now accepting nominations for its 2009 Sustainability Showcase Awards, which aim to recognize successful sustainable policies, programs, practices, and technologies implemented by leading organizations that work in California.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Center for Resource Solutions, recently announced the 2009 Green Power Leadership Awards winners.
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The European Union enacted new energy efficiency requirements on lamp sales.
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Revenues from climate-related business across the globe rose by 75 percent in 2008, according to HSBC Global Research.
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Researchers surveyed tenants in 154 green buildings nationwide and measured sick days and self-reported productivity changes after moving into a new building.
Temple-Inland’s ComfortGuard line of Gypsum board, designed to protect against abuse,
The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo saw the potential in ordinary, everyday facilities when it developed its eco-friendly restroom.
A winner in the Greenhouse category of the 2009 Evergreen Awards, LivingHomes prototype house aims for high-efficiency
PV Powered Inc. has added the PVP260kW to its family of commercial solar inverters.
Nora Systems now offers a 6-inch sanitary base for healthcare designs.
Tate’s new engineered hardwood tiles are made of 3-mm-thick natural wood laminate bonded to an 11-mm-thick Versacore wood veneer backer.
BIM processes allow facility managers to consistently collect and manage information and potentially decrease construction time and costs
Cabinet maker ALNO has addressed the issues of illegal logging and insufficient forest management by creating a glass alternative to exotic wood veneer.
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca's design of the Region 8 headquarters is an Ecommercial category winner in the 2009 Evergreen Awards
Steven Winter, FAIA, has spent 40 years championing energy efficient buildings
A winner in the Greenhouse category of the 2009 Evergreen Awards, the EcoDEEP Haus doubles the size of a 1940s bungalow but cuts its energy use nearly in half
Fulfilling Aldo Leopold's belief that ethical behavior includes respecting the land, the Leopold Legacy Center examines the relationships between buildings, their inhabitants and their sites
Sina Pearson Textiles incorporate recycled polyester into their eco-friendly Indian Summer line of fabrics.
Minneapolis's Target Center kepts is programming in play while installing an extensive green roof
Outfitted with the latest monitoring and control technology, the ASHRAE Headquarters provides a glimpse into the future of smart buildings.
Should competitions recognize projects for their sustainable attributes?
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Recent news and developments from around the sustainable industry
Understanding Green Building Guidelines For Students and Young Professionals examines a range of green building ratings systems and guidelines.
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ITT’s Bell & Gossett brand used updated hardware, pumping software, and algorithms to create the Technologic 502 variable speed pump controller for energy-efficient HVAC systems.
Gerflor has begun adding cork to the back of its vinyl tile line, Saga2.