Green Building
Green Building is the construction and renovation of buildings to reduce their impact on the environment. These buildings are built to be more energy efficient, use fewer natural resources, and reduce waste and pollution. Articles discuss the different types of construction used in green buildings such as energy efficient lighting, geothermal heating systems, and solar power as well as retrofitting of older buildings.
Perkins+Will, WM Launch Building Material Database, Recycling Tracker
Design firm Perkins+Will has launched a free, universally accessible database aimed at educating people on building materials that are, or are suspected of being, hazardous to ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Product App, China WEEE, GM Wildlife Conservation
Consumer Reports announced the launch of its new Eco-Label smart phone app, which will provide consumers with information on products' green marketing claims. The magazine said ...
Modular Data Centers Make Business and Environmental Sense, Report Says
Pre-engineered and prefabricated data centers now make environmental and economic sense, according a report by environmental IT research consortium The Green Grid.
According to Deploying and ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Construction Code, WM Certifications, LEED Airports
The provisions in the new 2012 International Green Construction Code were completed during a final hearing at the International Code Council's meeting in Phoenix, Ariz. The ...
Building Performance Tracking Can Thwart Gas Leaks
Building performance tracking is useful not only for tracking energy use but for improving indoor air quality, ensuring ventilation rate compliance and even ...
Noesis Energy Reveals ‘Freemium’ Business Model
Noesis Energy is to start giving away its energy management software, then charging customers for additional services related to the products.
The company is hoping this "freemium" ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Compliance Survey Results, Bentley ISO 50001, Printing Cartridge Standard
The results are in from a survey of senior executives at more than 200 global process industry companies. According to the poll conducted by CSC and ...
Green Infrastructure: The Next New Deal
In an economy that continues to teeter on the brink of a second Depression, the government remains the largest employer in the United ...
Why Urban Density Matters
Futurist Alex Steffen talks to TreeHugger about the importance of urban density, and why it works like a tent pole.
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Wine Standard, Energy Star Update, WEEE Recast
An international wine trade group has adopted a standard for calculating the industry's greenhouse gas emissions, Off License News reported. The International Organisation of Vine ...
Serious Energy Offers No-Cost Efficiency Retrofits
Serious Energy has launched a building upgrade service that the company says won't cost building owners a penny.
The firm developed SeriousCapital in part ...
Green Building Briefing: Green Hospitals, North America’s ‘Most Sustainable Building’ and Bird Collisions
In many hospitals heating accounts for more energy use than any other system, while imaging equipment and hot water use much less energy than was previously ...
Univ. Central Florida Wins Energy Star ‘Battle of the Buildings’
The University of Central Florida has won the EPA's 2011 Energy Star National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings.
UCF’s winning building was a parking garage (pictured) ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: GHS 90 Days Away, Green Code, NSF/ANSI Standard 60
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has submitted a final rule to revise its Hazard Communication Standard to align with GHS, MSDSonline reported. The Office ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Tablet Certifications, California Toxics Regulations, RoHS Recast
TCO Certified, a third party sustainability labeler for IT products, on Monday launched TCO Certified Tablets, a certification for tablet PCs that demonstrate minimal use of ...
White Roofs Could Raise Global Temperatures
A worldwide conversion to white roofs may actually warm the earth by about 0.07 C (0.13 F), according to Stanford University researchers.
In ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Chemical Standard, Singapore Ecolabel, WEEE
ANSI on Wednesday unveiled a new standard that establishes criteria for comparing chemicals and processes. The standard, NSF/GCI/ANSI 355 Greener Chemicals and Processes Information Standard, was ...
SAVE at Last
After a protracted gestation period, Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) introduced the long-awaited Sensible Accounting to Value Energy (SAVE) ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Oil Sustainability Certification, Prop. 65 'Dunks' Acrylamide, WEEE Trial
Equitable Origin on Monday announced the launch of a stakeholder-based sustainability certification for the oil and gas industry, the first of its kind, according to the ...
Cornell Taps Distributed Sun for NYC Campus Proposal
Distributed Sun LLC has teamed-up with Cornell University for a proposal that, if accepted by the City of New York, would see the partners build, finance, ...
