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WoodRight to Provide Special Services to Six 'Green Building' Communities

WoodRight Forest Products has selected six "focus communities" based upon an environmental non-profit group's study documenting major green building certifications across 20 states.

25 Mar 2014

Trex Receives Top Honors from Peninsula Publishing and Green Builder Media

Awards season is here – and Trex is on top once again. Trex Company, the world's largest manufacturer of wood-alternative decking and railing, recently received top honors from two of the industry's most respected reader surveys – Green Builder Media's 2014 Reader's Choice Awards and Peninsula Publishing's 2013 Building Products Brand Survey – underscoring the brand's leadership and preference among architects, builders and contractors and other trade professionals.

11 Mar 2014

LEED Exposed Project Shows that LEED-Certified Buildings Have Less Energy Efficiency Compared to Other Buildings

Today, LEED Exposed, a project of the Environmental Policy Alliance (EPA), released research showing that large privately-owned buildings in Washington D.C. certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, actually use more energy than uncertified buildings.

3 Mar 2014

KB Home Debuts Double ZeroHouse 2.0 in Los Angeles County

KB Home, one of the nation’s largest and most recognized homebuilders, unveiled its first ZeroHouse 2.0 in Los Angeles County today during a special event at the builder’s Dawn Creek community in Lancaster.

27 Feb 2014

UC Riverside’s School of Medicine Education Building Earns LEED Silver Certification

Most people look at a building and see windows and doors; John Cook, UC Riverside’s Director of Sustainability, sees a chance to change the world, one structure at a time.

6 Feb 2014

Primozone to build mobile pilot ozone system for treatment of textile after receiving additional funding

The Swedish ozone generator supplier, Primozone, has been awarded further more funding. This time for a project for removal of dye and harmful substances from wastewater from the textile industry.

From Primozone 21 Jan 2014

Primozone to build a mobile pilot ozone system for removal of pharmaceutical residue from wastewater

The Swedish ozone generator supplier, Primozone, has been awarded funding of a project for removal of pharmaceutical residue from waste water.

From Primozone 14 Jan 2014

UO Campus Building Earns LEED Platinum Certification

The Robert and Beverly Lewis Integrative Science Building at the University of Oregon recently became the first structure on campus and the first higher education laboratory in Oregon to be awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification, the highest possible certification, by the U.S. Green Building Council.

6 Jan 2014

China Mobile - Huawei Warehouse IDC Project Wins Green Data Center Award

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, and China Mobile, one of the largest telecommunications service providers in the world, jointly announced that the China Mobile - Huawei Warehouse IDC project, a collaboration between Huawei and a subsidiary of China Mobile, Heilongjiang Mobile, has won the DatacenterDynamics Greater China 2013 Award in the Green Data Center Category.

23 Dec 2013

Brookhaven Lab’s Interdisciplinary Science Building for Energy Research Awarded LEED Gold Rating

The Interdisciplinary Science Building (ISB) for energy research, the newest facility to open at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been awarded a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold rating for being "green." The U.S. Green Building Council awarded this designation for the ISB's energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable design, construction, and operations. The ISB is one of nine buildings at Brookhaven Lab to receive LEED certification.

20 Dec 2013