Sustainability & Resilience: Page 34
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Who won the EPA's Energy Star Battle of the Buildings?
The winner slashed its energy use by 52% in one year.
By Davide Savenije • April 24, 2013 -
Top 10 cities with the greenest homes
Redfin, an online real estate broker, analyzed U.S. cities based on their carbon emissions and green homes available.
By Davide Savenije • April 23, 2013 -
AIA names top 10 green design projects of 2013
The American Institute of Architects' Committee on the Environment selected winners based on their environmental and design aspects.
By Ron Gallagher • April 22, 2013 -
Net-zero home guru: Follow standards if you want success
The President of the Passive House Alliance US says there are known ways to do achieve net-zero housing.
By Ron Gallagher • April 18, 2013 -
New indoor air pollution research may change residential building codes
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say current ventilation standards miss the mark.
By Ron Gallagher • April 17, 2013 -
Seattle school wins world's fourth Living Building award
When the elementary Bertschi School built its science wing, it went all out and won the Living Building Challenge.
By Ron Gallagher • April 15, 2013 -
Colo. builder survived recession, now building green homes
Century Communities is back to building homes in Colorado, and solar-ready and energy efficient are both on the product list.
By Ron Gallagher • April 14, 2013 -
Deep Dive
Most Read Construction News of the Week: Apple's new mothership and a pit collapse in N.C.
Stay in the loop with last week's biggest headlines.
By Davide Savenije • April 12, 2013 -
Skyscraper aesthetic is about making form environmentally functional
Skyscrapers around the world are as much about function than flash these days, specifically green functions.
By Ron Gallagher • April 11, 2013 -
Floating building first of its kind to earn LEED Gold certification
Cottonwood Cove Resort and Marina's floating green building has set a new sustainability milestone.
By Roger Riddell • April 9, 2013 -
Pentagon to study green building data
The study may provide the green building movement with the data needed to justify its value.
By Roger Riddell • April 8, 2013 -
Green building is new theme of housing tour in Boston
In the not-exactly-hard-up towns of Carlisle and Concord west of Boston, a home tour that used to be about "wow" is now about "cool."
By Ron Gallagher • April 4, 2013 -
Solar demo homes will pilot microgrid project
The Missouri University of Science and Technology originally built the houses to show solar can work.
By Ron Gallagher • April 2, 2013 -
ANSI gives seal of approval for revised green-building standard
Backers say American National Standards Institute's approval of the 2012 ICC 700 National Green Building Standard gives it credibility.
By Ron Gallagher • April 2, 2013 -
Owner survey: 50% use 'smart' systems
The survey has a message for contractors as well as system designers, demonstrating that customers increasingly want buildings that can accommodate active energy management.
By Ron Gallagher • April 1, 2013 -
New discovery slashes energy load for cooling buildings
Researchers at Stanford University have discovered a material that can cut cooling energy by 35% even if it's present on only 10% of the building's surface.
By Ron Gallagher • March 29, 2013 -
Most Read Construction News of the Week: 3D printing and plywood
Catch up on the biggest construction news of the past week as you end into the weekend.
By Brian Warmoth • March 28, 2013 -
Fla. lawmakers don't want LEED to decide what is 'sustainable'
Florida's House of Representatives is considering a committee-approved bill to let state agencies decide what environmental construction standards they want to follow.
By Ron Gallagher • March 27, 2013 -
Swiss green-roof package snags FM Approval rating
Sika Sarnafil, a specialty chemical maker based in Baar, Switzerland, offers a package that includes waterproofing and vegetation for green roofs.
By Ron Gallagher • March 22, 2013 -
Bigger homes, more appliances eclipse efficiency improvements
Appliances are using less energy in each unit, but residential energy is rising because we are filling bigger houses with more devices and heating and lighting more space.
By Ron Gallagher • March 21, 2013 -
89% of schools say health is reason to build green
School officials said that having a healthy environment in which kids have a chance to learn is almost as important as costs in their decisions.
By Ron Gallagher • March 19, 2013 -
New LEED guide targets efficiency in historic buildings
A newly released guide from the U.S. Green Building Council looks at how energy and water efficiency can be brought to historic buildings.
By Ron Gallagher • March 19, 2013 -
U.S. Green Building Council: $271B needed to fix schools, $542B to modernize them
The U.S. Green Building Council figures it will take $271 billion just to cover deferred maintenance at U.S. schools sand a lot more to modernize them.
By Ron Gallagher • March 18, 2013 -
Floating Prototype School in Lagos
NLE's pilot project, Makoko Floating School, was completed in early March and combines sustainable strategies with the local tradition of building on water.
March 15, 2013 -
Deep Dive
Most Read Construction News of the Week: A green Walgreens and federal funds
Here's your weekly short and snappy briefing on our most popular news reads of the last few days.
By Brian Warmoth • March 14, 2013
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