Sustainability & Resilience: Page 37
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Green home builder teams with broker to find lots for customers
Blu Homes has lots of potential customers without building sites, and it thinks Redfin is the answer.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 29, 2012 -
Developers attend to the basics of building envelopes to cut costs later
Developers doing renovations and conversions understand that green building makes old-fashioned business sense.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 28, 2012 -
EcoHome EiC says custom homes important, green costs coming down
EcoHome magazine's EiC talks green trends and the selection process for his publication's design awards.
By Brian Warmoth • Aug. 23, 2012 -
Shanghai to subsidize green property development projects
Projects will receive more than $900,000 each to provide the city with energy efficient developments.
By Brian Warmoth • Aug. 23, 2012 -
EBies awards honor great work in green renovation in New York City
The U.S. Green Building Council's New York City chapter gave its first round of awards recognizing excellence in green building in the city.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 17, 2012 -
Most Read Construction News of the Week: Edge projects, green opportunities and windows
Need to catch up on the week in construction news? Check out the five most popular Construction Dive posts of the past seven days.
By Brian Warmoth • Aug. 17, 2012 -
Builder using 'practical' approach for Canada's first net-positive building
Del Ridge Homes is erecting a 32,000-square-foot building in Milton, Ontario, for completion this year.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 16, 2012 -
Green-building advocates applaud San Francisco's public-sector showpiece
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's new headquarters incorporates features that go beyond LEED.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 16, 2012 -
USGBC takes LEED global to go 'where the passion is'
COO Manhesh Ramanujam says the strategy is "to follow the knowledge, to go where there is passion" for green building.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 15, 2012 -
Total-cost perspective for commercial buildings makes case for LED lighting
Including operational costs in decisions about lighting can tip the economic balance to LED systems.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 15, 2012 -
Roundabouts can lead straight to business opportunities as popularity increases
The number of circular intersections replacing conventional right-angle-and-lights junctions is growing in the U.S.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 10, 2012 -
130 million homes make for a very green opportunity
Large buildings get much of the attention for green construction, but there are 130 million homes in the U.S. – a large opportunity.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 10, 2012 -
Greensburg, Kan., lives up to its name with efficient post-tornado municipal construction
A tornado hammered the town in 2007. Thirteen new, green municipal buildings are documented money-savers.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 9, 2012 -
WegoWise will be online platform for 'LEED for Homes' tracking
The U.S. Green Building Council is making the website the benchmarking tool for builders and owners.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 8, 2012 -
BPI publishes new energy-auditing standard for single-family homes
The standard gives energy auditors a protocol based on the state of the art in home construction.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 3, 2012 -
Most Read Construction News of the Week: Pivothead glasses, septic rules and billing
This week at Construction Dive, new tech for site visits and billing advice ranked among our most popular reads.
By Brian Warmoth • Aug. 3, 2012 -
Put a little pig in your paving, some hog in your highway
The state transportation research lab in Illinois is one facility looking at the use of swine waste to make a bio-oil binder for asphalt.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 2, 2012 -
LEED is best known – but not alone – in green-building ratings
There are several rating systems available to certify the conservation qualities of all kinds of housing.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 1, 2012 -
A renewed commitment to buildings and their social benefits
The 2 billion more people expected by 2030 make the case that green building has to become the norm.
By Ron Gallagher • July 31, 2012 -
Homes can go 'green' now in any size, shape, place or color
Kermit the Frog, the famous Muppet, is famous for saying it's not easy being green. He clearly is not a home builder in 2012.
By Ron Gallagher • July 30, 2012 -
Cold-process asphalt is cool environmentally, economically
Grinding once-used asphalt and mixing it with an emulsion means fewer fumes and less spending.
By Ron Gallagher • July 27, 2012 -
USGBC estimates LEED-in-process at 7 billion square feet globally
The world has 7 billion square feet of LEED-certified space under way, worth $554 billion, according to the USGBC.
By Ron Gallagher • July 27, 2012 -
Feds, ASHRAE explore energy saving design for hospitals, schools, stores
The Department of Energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and HVAC professionals are tackling institutional energy use.
By Ron Gallagher • July 26, 2012 -
Creativity in financing is often a necessity in green retrofits
In some cases, equity in buildings is not large enough to permit traditional borrowing for energy or other environmental renovations.
By Ron Gallagher • July 25, 2012 -
From BIM to smart buildings to smart cities: Data evolves
A smart-city movement based on the growing availability of building data is taking place worldwide.
By Ron Gallagher • July 24, 2012
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