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An architect from Anshen+Allen looks for healthy, sustainable materials, inside and out.
A look at how competition fosters innovation in the sustainable building realm.
While the rush to build sustainably may be somewhat tempered by the economic downturn, a 2008 study conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. General Services Administration of 12 federal buildings demonstrates that buildings designed to be sustainable deliver on their promise of resource...
Continuous air barriers must be designed, constructed and tested to help achieve building energy efficiency.
The newly formed Commercial Buildings Initiative plans to achieve broad acceptance and deployment of zero-energy buildings.
John Tooley, senior building science consultant with Advanced Energy, Raleigh, N.C., explains that doing it right the first time is an often-neglected aspect of sustainability.
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Within the Ottawa, Ontario-based Canada Green Building Council’s LEED program, Materials and Resources credit 8 for Durable Buildings encourages these performance objectives. MRc8 contributes 1 point to the building’s LEED rating but more importantly provides a six-step process to prevent...
Green cleaning is an easy and cost-effective way to protect the environment.
The Merrickville, Ontario, Canada-based Athena Institute's EcoCalculator makes life-cycle assessment available to everyone.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was established in Berkeley, Calif., in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, a physicist who won a Nobel Prize for his physics work.