Green Building Products

A rendering of Tallhouse, a 35,000-sf mixed-use residential building in Roxbury, Mass., devised by Generate Technologies to be built with mass timber. Images: Generate
Hybrid designs reconcile metropolitan growth and lower CO2 emissions.

Electric vehicle charging station in an apartment complex: just tap to start the charging process. Photos: ChargePoint
EV charging webinar (9/16) to feature Bozzuto Development, The Irvine Company, RCLCO, and Charg...
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Building Design+Construction readers and editors select their top building products for...
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Sto's beetle-inspired exterior coating and Dörken Systems' UV-resistant vapor-permeable barrier a...
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Clover Payments, a payments software startup, installed a 30x22-ft living wall in its office in Sunnyvale, Calif., a net-zero-energy building. The wall provides air filtration for the company's tenants. Image: Courtesy Habitat Horticulture
One installer offers his thoughts on why, and what works.


Duo-Gard bike storage. Photo: Ferut Architects (via BuildingGreen)
A hybrid urinal, ventless dryer, and a chair made of mushroom roots are among the new green produ...
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During renovations, the team integrated the biofilter into the new HVAC system to provide clean a...
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To make the assessment, the resources used and the wastes generated are calculated, mass-balanced, and normalized relative to a specific quantity called a functional unit.
LCA is a way of quantifying the environmental impact generated by the manufacture and delivery of...
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The growth of IPD is among the key takeaways from the USGBC Region 7 Conference.

Charts courtesy Paladino and Co.
The history of the green movement offers cues that we are on the precipice of another significant...
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Renderings courtesy of Make It Right
BNIM is among the six firms involved in the project.

The system was designed to take advantage of a building's air flow and generate energy even if it...
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For the past six years, Leo A Daly has been designing sites for remote field stations with near-z...
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From energy modeling on the fly to prefabrication of building systems, these advancements are pot...
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Zaha Hadid Architects released designs for the new headquarters of Emirati environmental manageme...
read moreThe "LEED In Motion: Retail" report includes USGBC’s conceptualization of the future of retail, e...
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Among the breakthrough products to make BuildingGreen's annual Top-10 Green Building Products lis...
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The white paper includes a list of 193 flame retardants, including 29 discovered in building and...
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To be selected, LEED Fellows are nominated by their peers, undergo an extensive portfolio review,...
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The 10 Year Award recognizes proven value and performance in a tall building, across one or more...
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The Urban Green Council addresses a concern that many "green" buildings in the U.S. have: poor in...
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Rectangular tiles, digital graphic applications, the resurgence of terrazzo, and product transpar...
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The Seventh Heaven complex features a stepped form that will offer stunning views of the Dubai sk...
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The high-rise development will have a 24,638-sf vertical garden, breaking a Guinness World Record...

The Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Program will offer 14 grants to developers of affordable...
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The ARIA Sky Suites in Las Vegas and the Lenox Hotel in Boston are among the 10 most popular hote...
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From vertical farming to glowing trees (yes, glowing trees), Arup engineers imagine the future of...
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