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Green building's footprint tends to grow fastest in countries that have national policies that promote construction of sustainable, energy-...
BIM is an essential tool to develop sustainable buildings, says U.K. architect Elrond Burrell.
The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) is sponsoring a free webinar on August 21 at 2:00 p.m. (EDT) on electronic energy control.
Not usually noted for its innovation, the public sector has done the most to advance sustainable building, according to a recent panel of green...
The GreenLife Business Centre in Milton, Ontario near Toronto is set to become the first net-positive energy building in Canada.
The town of Greensburg, Kan., virtually destroyed by a tornado in 2007, decided to rebuild 13 public buildings according to green standards.
A new report by the National Institute of Building Sciences Consultative Council highlights four several areas that need focus to improve...
A two-day summit focused on green building in the affordable housing market will be held Nov. 13 - 14, 2012 in San Francisco, Calif. at the...
The National Roofing Contractors Association’s update of its Guidelines for Roof Systems With Rooftop Photovoltaic Components is now...
The Advanced Energy Design Guidelines from the Department of Energy and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air...
A glass envelope acting as a kind of biodome encapsulates four mixed-use towers at Parkview Green FangCaoDi, an 800,000 sf mixed-use development...
It’s conceivable that innovation in project finance can do for building efficiency in the coming century what 30-year mortgages did for home...
The new One Bryant Park Bank of America tower in midtown Manhattan is the first new commercial high-rise to achieve LEED Platinum certification....
The collapse of a section of a roof parking deck at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake in Ontario, Canada could have been prevented if the...
After the May 22, 2011, EF-5 tornado destroyed St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., architects and engineers analyzed how the nine-...
Tax breaks passed by the U.S. government to encourage construction of green buildings are set to expire in 2012 and 2013.
The director of the 2030 Challenge for Products says that the organization is aiming to place a label on building products that will list what’s...
A meeting of 1,000 business executives at the recent Rio+20 environmental conference featured a passionate plea to include building resilience in...
A new ISO standard will help the construction industry better manage the environmental impacts of concrete.
