Green Building Technologies

• BuildSite introduces LEED submittal templates for green building

  BD+C staff, March 11, 2010
  BuildSite, a single source of product, technical, and procurement information for construction, has introduced online submittal templates tied to BuildSite Green Data.  More

• Nation's first set of green building model codes and standards announced

  BD+C staff, March 11, 2010
  The International Code Council (ICC), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) announce the launch of the International Green Construction Code (IGCC), representing the merger of two national efforts to develop adoptable and enforceable green building codes.  More

• Senators introduce energy-efficiency renovations program for commercial buildings

  BD+C staff, March 10, 2010
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• ASHRAE Receives NIST Grant to Study IAQ in Retail Stores

  Jeffrey Yoders, February 9, 2010
  The American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has been awarded $1.5 million dollars in grant money from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to conduct a three-year research project on ventilation and indoor air quality in retail stores.  More

• UC Merced researchers receive $568,000 grant to develop solar sensing, tracking system 

  Jeffrey Yoders, February 9, 2010
  Alberto Cerpa, an engineering professor at the University of California Merced, has received a $568,202 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a system that will measure and track the amount of sunlight that reaches ground level where photovoltaic panels and solar concentrators used in solar energy systems collect light and heat to turn into electricity.  More

• Mark McCracken named chair-elect of USGBC Board of Directors

  Jeffrey Yoders, February 2, 2010
  Mark MacCracken, CEO of CALMAC, Inc., a producer of cold storage energy solutions, has been selected as Chair-elect of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Board of Directors for the 2010 calendar year. The USGBC Board of Directors is responsible for articulating and upholding the vision, values and mission of USGBC. In 2009, MacCracken was elected to serve a second 3-year term as Director in the Energy Services Seat.  More

• Blue ribbon panel unveils recommendations for NYC's green building codes

  BDC Staff, February 1, 2010
  In response to City's request, the task force unveils more than 100 recommendations for greening NYC buildings, in most sophisticated analysis ever conducted by a municipality  More

• America's Greenest Hospital

  By Robert Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief, February 1, 2010
  Hospitals are energy gluttons. With 24/7/365 operating schedules and stringent requirements for air quality in ORs and other clinical areas, an acute-care hospital will gobble up about twice the energy per square foot of, say, a commercial office building. It is an achievement worth noting, therefore, when a major hospital achieves LEED Platinum status, especially when that hospital attains 14 ...  More

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