Sustainability & Resilience: Page 25
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Contractors can gain market advantage as building-health experts
Employee health is tied to building health, so contractors can benefit from knowing how to help clients build healthy buildings.
By Ron Gallagher • July 23, 2014 -
Living inside the box: Container housing is coming to DC
Converted shipping containers, an idea tried in a few places in the U.S. so far, is coming to the nation's capital as low-cost housing.
By Ron Gallagher • July 22, 2014 -
PA green building group forms in pursuit of higher standard
Seven people from six small professional firms in central Pennsylvania form an alliance to push for developing better than green and getting to sustainable design.
By Ron Gallagher • July 21, 2014 -
Couple building 'Earthship' on Canadian prairie
The Earthship movement advocates self-sustaining homes, and couple is hoping theirs will sustain them through an Alberta winter.
By Ron Gallagher • July 21, 2014 -
Study: Cables top trusses in trimming bridge environmental impact
Researchers at schools in Miami and Milwaukee toted up all the costs of the two steel alternatives for a bridge meeting the same requirements.
By Ron Gallagher • July 18, 2014 -
CNG-fueled dump trucks will let NJ hauler double fleet for same fuel price
The owner of MJF Materials will have 50 trucks for hauling sand and stone to asphalt and concrete plants, twice what he began this year with, and will pay half the cost of the diesel-fuel equivalent.
By Ron Gallagher • July 10, 2014 -
Is green building ready for the mainstream?
By 2016, a home-building industry report says, green practices and materials will be involved in nearly a third of the new-home market and will be as common as full basements and vinyl siding.
By Ron Gallagher • July 9, 2014 -
Shoe company takes LEED to the mall and wins platinum
Puma was able to get a LEED Platinum certification for its store in the Destiny Mall in Syracuse, NY.
By Ron Gallagher • July 2, 2014 -
After year's test, net-zero house is a winner despite tough winter
A house built in Maryland by the National Institute of Standards and Technology generated 491 kilowatt-hours more than it needed.
By Ron Gallagher • July 2, 2014 -
EPA wants to smooth conflicting rules on brownfield assessments
Companies that want to develop properties that might have chemical contamination will have to follow only the most ASTM method.
By Ron Gallagher • June 30, 2014 -
CA, NY, TX lead in LEED homes, USGBC says
A report on residential green building looks at what has been put in place in the U.S. and globally.
By Ron Gallagher • June 19, 2014 -
Foamed asphalt saves time, money on NJ-PA bridge project
The job was traffic-friendly, using a single train to excavate, pulverize, remix and lay the base and cut paving costs by 60% in an overall repair project.
By Ron Gallagher • June 12, 2014 -
Report: Green building growing in single-family, multifamily segments
A McGraw Hill report from a survey of NAHB members found that builders and remodelers expect green building to be an increasing piece of their businesses.
By Ron Gallagher • June 9, 2014 -
Green measure could sink tall building projects in Berkeley, CA
A petition drive hopes to impose rigorous requirements, now voluntary if a developer wants fast-track approvals, on anything over 60 feet high.
By Ron Gallagher • June 4, 2014 -
Group is ready with green certification for parking garages
With a tip of the hat to LEED standards for people-occupied buildings, the Green Parking Council is bringing environmental assessment to construction commercial garages.
By Ron Gallagher • June 2, 2014 -
Installing new technology when the client wants clean
An Atlanta-area grocer wanted a non-polluting refrigeration system, and the answer is one that uses carbon dioxide rather than conventional refrigerants.
By Ron Gallagher • May 30, 2014 -
The world's toughest green building standard just got tougher
Introducing the Living Building Challenge, version 3.0.
By Ron Gallagher • May 22, 2014 -
Washington, DC studies the cost-benefit of energy building options
The nation's capital has more green buildings per capita than anywhere else in the country.
By Ron Gallagher • May 22, 2014 -
Japanese architects pan design for 2020 Olympic stadium
A petition campaign led by Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki is trying to knock down Zaha Hadid's 20-story facility before it gets started.
By Ron Gallagher • May 16, 2014 -
Color changes as home ages
Known as Fall House, a home designed by a San Francisco architectural firm has one side that will change color as the copper siding ages in the salt air.
By Ron Gallagher • May 5, 2014 -
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Google invests $100M in residential solar
Google and SunPower are creating a $250 million fund to finance rooftop solar installations that homeowners will lease.
By Ron Gallagher • May 5, 2014 -
How rehab can be a green building strategy
Improving existing buildings can be much more green than new construction if local government understands the need to be flexible instead of code-driven.
By Ron Gallagher • May 5, 2014 -
Construction unemployment rate hits 9.4% (and that's a good thing)
The figure is high compared with the U.S. overall workforce, but it is so much better than the recession high of 21.8% in April 2010.
By Ron Gallagher • May 2, 2014 -
Norway project seeks tallest timber-frame apartments title
A 14-story building with luxury apartments is targeted for completion in fall 2015.
By Ron Gallagher • May 2, 2014 -
CA plans $360M for 'active transportation' projects
The state Department of Transportation is looking for bicycling and walking projects on which to bestow money.
By Ron Gallagher • May 1, 2014
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