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Philips and Bayer MaterialScience Join Forces to Develop Sustainable Buildings

The Lighting Division of Philips GmbH has joined the EcoCommercial Building Program in Europe that was initiated by Bayer MaterialScience, one of the world’s leading polymers manufacturers. Through an interdisciplinary network of partners, this program offers decision-makers in the construction industry a comprehensive range of services and material solutions for building sustainable public and commercial buildings.

19 May 2011

Norway to get First Energy Positive Office Building

Entra Eiendom, Skanska, architects Snøhetta, the environmental organization ZERO, and the aluminium company Hydro are entering into an agreement to build Norway’s first energy-positive office building. The new alliance, Powerhouse, plans to present its first building project in the summer of 2011.

1 May 2011

Medtronic World Headquarters Receives Green Globes Continual Improvement of Existing Buildings Certificate

Medtronic, a Minneapolis, MN, headquartered medical technology company, has lately earned the Green Globes Continual Improvement of Existing Buildings (CIEB) certification for its sustainable practices and upkeep of the Green Building Initiative (GBI).

29 Apr 2011

Knight Management Center Aims to Receive LEED Platinum Certification

The Knight Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to be opened at the end of this month is anticipating attaining LEED platinum grading from the U.S. Green Building Council.

28 Apr 2011

DOW Associates with Oak Ridge National Lab and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to Introduce Energy-Efficient Cool Roofs

Dow Chemical declared that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will finance a part of an important lab research that is being conducted by Dow and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of DOE under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA).

22 Apr 2011

PPG Coatings Used in San Jose Airport Building Achieve LEED Silver Certification

The new Terminal B concourse at the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport in California is the first monumental architectural project constructed with DURANAR(R) powder coatings by PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) industrial coatings business.

6 Apr 2011

Innovative Coatings and Adhesives Help Reduce Energy Consumption and Improve Quality of Life

Innovative coatings and adhesives formulated with polyurethane raw materials from Bayer MaterialScience offer solutions for numerous challenges in these areas. They satisfy the requirements arising from the aspiration of a sustainable reduction of CO2 emissions and fossil fuel independence, as well as from increasingly urgent calls for "green" products in the widest sense of the word.

29 Mar 2011

Solar PV Array Installed on BILD Headquarters in Toronto

The headquarters of the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) is going green by implementing an 80 panel solar PV array on it’s roof-top with the help of PURE Energies in Toronto’s Don Mills area and is thus becoming eligible for the micro Feed-in-Tariff (microFIT) Program, which comes under the Green Energy Act.

24 Feb 2011

Stained Glass Solar Windows Adorn Saskatoon Church

The Holy Family Catholic Church in Saskatoon is undergoing renovation. The parish, in an effort to achieve sustainability, plans to utilize the 2,381 hours of yearly sunshine in the process, and is embedding solar cells on its new windows.

22 Feb 2011

Solar Panels Installed at Rochester International Airport

Monroe County officials recently unveiled a solar panel installation at the Rochester International Airport in New York, as part of their green initiatives. Two 50,000 watt photovoltaic arrays were installed on the roof-top of the airport’s terminal building.

22 Feb 2011