Sustainability & Resilience: Page 27
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Algae-powered apartment building opens in Germany
The 15-unit structure is 50% energy independent as researchers continue to explore algae’s promise.
By Sharon O'Malley • Sept. 25, 2014 -
High-performance home saves three-quarters on energy bills in research study
TVA equipped each house with ‘robot’ families so all homes would be ‘lived in’ equally.
By Sharon O'Malley • Sept. 25, 2014 -
Want an energy-efficient building? Use walls made of hemp
More states could follow Colorado’s lead and make harvesting legal for ‘hempcrete’ ingredient.
By Sharon O'Malley • Sept. 23, 2014 -
Futuristic 'city' wins SuperSkyScraper Award
The conceptual 984-foot tower would mimic a London neighborhood within its walls.
By Sharon O'Malley • Sept. 20, 2014 -
Michigan home is built from metal shipping containers
Dozens of the eco-friendly structures are popping up around the world.
By Sharon O'Malley • Sept. 18, 2014 -
Taking the competition out of green-building standards
Major players in setting standards for what green building and energy efficiency mean have had a meeting of the minds and will work together.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 25, 2014 -
Official 'green construction code' in the pipeline
Four important agencies are collaborating to develop an international code for green construction.
By Mattie Quinn • Aug. 25, 2014 -
Canadian engineering firm offers guide to battling thermal bridging
The company, Morrison Hershfield, has pulled together information on how contractors can predict and reduce the leakage of heat through insulated structure surfaces.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 11, 2014 -
Virginia county may leave LEED behind as it weighs costs
It's been the rule in Loudoun County since 2008 that new county buildings have to meet LEED Silver standards, but a recent project has supervisors asking questions.
By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 7, 2014 -
Report: Commercial building retrofits are $959B global opportunity
A research report predicts that building owners will spend that much globally between this year and the end of 2023.
By Ron Gallagher • July 28, 2014 -
25-story Tokyo office building is giant evaporative cooler
Recycling purified rain water through a series of sprinkler pipes, the BioSkin devised by the buildings architects lowers surface and air temperatures.
By Ron Gallagher • July 24, 2014 -
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
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