The types of building projects that are seeking LEED® certification run the gamut from community centers to skyscrapers. One element of LEED’s success is the flexibility of the system and the proliferation of certification types for different projects and stages. Until I heard about a new LEED structure in the nation’s capital, I had no [...]
DPR Construction defines themselves as, “a national technical builder that specializes in highly complex and sustainable projects,” and to the sustainable community they are becoming more and more well-known. You may have heard that in 2012, DPR Construction was ranked by ENR as the #2 largest contractor in the healthcare industry, the #24 general contractor [...]
Release Notes for March 18th, 2013 We’ve got more updates for you this week, including updates to our Energy Reduction Calculator and the LEED® Credit Checklist. The LEED® Credit Checklist improvements are small first steps in a series of many big steps we are taking to consolidate and streamline LEED functionality and interactions with LEED [...]
We’re looking to the manufacturing and design community to help make high-quality, healthy homes available for everyone. To inspire innovation in developing healthy building materials for communities in need, the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and Make It Right are issuing a Product Innovation Challenge. We’re encouraging manufacturers to design goods for the affordable [...]
The green building movement has its advocates. On one side, concerned community members, non-profits, and environmentalists have demanded these structures. The building products industry, architects, engineers, and developers have created the means and markets to achieve these sustainable structures. What, if any, role do investors play in promoting green structures? An independent market research firm, [...]
The future of net zero building will soon be expanding to the retail world, with Walgreens announcing their plan to build America’s very first retail store that will produce as much or even more energy than it consumes. The store will be built in Evanston, Illinois and is expected to take about two years to [...]
A recent study by the Center for International Environmental Law that examined enhanced regulation of chemicals in building products and their effect on innovation, reminded me of a row back in July between the American chemical industry and the USGBC. In 2012, the plastics industry formed the American High-Performance Buildings Coalition in response to the [...]
Or If You Are Already A Customer, Get Two Months Free We got some new feature to the GreenWizard software with our new release. If you haven’t yet heard, you can check out our software for free until April 15th! If you are already a customer, you can get two months of GreenWizard for free! [...]
H.3592: Bad for Business, Bad for the Environment, Bad for South Carolina If you are involved in sustainable business in South Carolina, then you should be aware that the South Carolina General Assembly is putting forward a bill that would eliminate the use of the LEED and Green Globe green building rating system from the [...]
Would it ever occur to you as you walk into a building that the very walls around you could be alive and constantly transforming? This very concept will be reality to us soon, as a new form of biological concrete has been created that supports the growth on building surfaces of pigmented organisms such as [...]
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