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The International Code Council stripped out provisions from the 2024 update to the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) that would have included beefed up circuitry for hooking up electric appliances and car chargers.
The Biden Administration recently released “Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy by 2050: A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector,” a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from buildings by 65% by 2035 and 90% by 2050.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has opened the first public comment period for the first draft of LEED v5. The new version of the LEED green building rating system will drive deep decarbonization, quality of life improvements, and ecological conservation and restoration, USGBC says.
Living EmPower House, which is set to be the first zero-carbon, replicable, and equitable multifamily development designed for transactive energy, recently was awarded a $9 million Next EPIC Grant Construction Loan from the State of California.
Sustainably designed apartments are apples of developers’ eyes
More and more colleges and universities see sustainainably designed buildings as a given
High-performance schools put ‘sustainability’ in the lesson plan
LEED v4 drafts and the public comment tool are now available on the newly re-launched, re-envisioned USGBC.org website.
The “Lakeside Idea” is about bridging a brownfield industrial past to a green lifestyle future, from steel mill to innovation mill.
Seeking LEED Silver certification, the project will begin in August and is slated for completion in December 2014.
The Top 10 AEC Firms in Green Buildings and LEED Accredited Staff.
Kats' role is to help further expand GreenWizard’s impact in the sustainable construction industry.
