Sustainability & Resilience: Page 40
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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 -
Green building is just not chic in upscale Westchester County, N.Y.
Whether too expensive or unimportant to homeowners, LEED lags where it might be most affordable.
By Ron Gallagher • July 23, 2012 -
Glass ‘biodome’ helps Parkview Green FangCaoDi project in Beijing achieve LEED Platinum
A glass envelope acting as a kind of biodome encapsulates four mixed-use towers at Parkview Green FangCaoDi, an 800,000 sf mixed-use development in Beijing. The glass structure helped the development to achieve LEED Platinum certification. The glass envelope acts as a buffer that helps reduce hea...
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Panama Canal concrete-making process is cool – literally
Components of the concrete for the Panama Canal expansion project have to be within tight temperature guidelines.
By Ron Gallagher • July 18, 2012 -
Most Read Construction News of the Week: Skanska, green building and the housing market
Catch up with the most popular construction industry reads of the last week. We compiled the five most read news posts to catch you up to speed.
By Brian Warmoth • July 12, 2012 -
Bryant tower in NYC scores LEED platinum
The building, built for Bank of America, is the first new commercial high-rise to reach the platinum level.
By Ron Gallagher • July 12, 2012 -
Retrieved from Autodesk on January 31, 2012
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Feds crafting process to improve environmental permitting
A March executive order said agencies should figure out how to streamline the permitting processes.
By Ron Gallagher • July 11, 2012 -
8 green commercial building projects
Green design in commercial building is finding its way all over new structures. Construction Dive looks at eight project examples.
By Shehryar Nabi • July 6, 2012 -
Most Read Construction News of the Week: Hospitals, standards and homeowner rights
The Department of Veterans Affairs, California's governor and the Supreme Court all weighed in on construction topics that mattered to our readers this week. Find out if you missed anything.
By Brian Warmoth • July 6, 2012
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