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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.
Boston has placed significant aspects of its plan to protect the city from rising sea levels on the actions of private developers. Amid a post-Covid commercial development slump, though, efforts to build protective infrastructure have stalled.
ASSA ABLOY Trio-E door is the first to be certified to these sustainability requirements.
To track results, schools will use the newly developed Sustainability Dashboard, a unique web-based service that makes tracking sustainability initiatives affordable and easy.
Green jobs are already an important part of the construction labor workforce, and signs are that they will become industry standard.
Modular Design Architecture >Dow Corning 758 sealant used in GreenZone modular high-performance medical facility.
Tridel teams up with Cisco and Control4 to unveil the future of green condo living in Canada.
Panoptix combines latest technology, new business model and industry-leading expertise to make building efficiency easier and more accessible to a broader market.
There is now a call for making enhanced resilience of a building’s structure to natural and man-made disasters the first consideration of a green building.
Turnkey systems create an aesthetic architectural power plant.
Brick exteriors, interiors and landscaping options can increase sustainability that also helps earn LEED certification.
The two collections offer both larger and smaller particulates.
