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On June 14, the U.S. Conference of Mayors endorsed the International Green Construction Code, a new, comprehensive green building code authored by the International Code Council.
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AIA report says GREEN Act could create or save as many as 140,000 design and construction jobs.
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Looking for an environmentally friendly way to warm your buildings? A gasifier just might be the ticket to a cleaner—and cheaper—heating system.
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A multilevel house featuring suites for diplomats and their families in Mexico; a center for visiting dignitaries in Maryland; a self-supporting scheme for interlocking bricks that would not require mortar; and a brick featuring an outer leaf panel designed to produce curvilinear shapes were among...
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Given the proliferation of free or inexpensive sustainable design tools on the Web, ARCHITECT asked three green leaders to tell us their go-to gadgets.
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Too often, green construction is about how smart a building's gadgets are. Instead, it should be about smart architecture.
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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
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Through a new memorandum of understanding, the Atlanta-based American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. and Portland, Ore.-based Green Building Initiative will work together to accelerate the adoption of sustainability principles in the built environment.
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Portland, Ore.-based Forest Products Solutions unveiled the first FSC House trade-show display at the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo last November in Chicago.
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West Conshohocken, Pa.-based ASTM International has formed ASTM Committee E60 on Sustainability.