The EcoCommercial Building Program for sustainable construction continues to expand. SilenceSolutions, a leading specialist for the acoustic interior design of office and industrial buildings, is new to the global network led by Bayer MaterialScience
Spanish and Scottish researchers have added wool fibres to the clay material used to make bricks and combined these with an alginate, a natural polymer extracted from seaweed. The result is bricks that are stronger and more environmentally-friendly, according to the study published recently in the journal Construction and Building Materials.
In a real-life “back to the future” story, scientists today reported that the sustainable, environmentally-friendly process that gave birth to plywood a century ago is re-emerging as a “green” alternative to wood adhesives made from petroleum.
Loughborough University today (Monday 27 September) welcomes a special delegation of visitors from the National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE) in Hanoi, Vietnam. The four visitors will be look at sustainability in the UK’s construction industry
The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) has named its top ten green building projects for 2010, and at least five of them feature environmentally advanced glass or coatings made by PPG Industries.
In addition to the speakers at Sandia National Laboratories’ S3: Safe, Secure, Sustainable Fair, more than a dozen solar, electrical and alternative-fuel cars, the latest technology for rescue vehicles, green building techniques and much more will be on display at more than 80 information booths at the annual fair.
Tyndall Air Force Base officials opened the first building in the Air Force expected to reach the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum level here Aug. 20. The platinum level is the highest rating possible under the group's green building rating system.
Can light-colored rooftops and roads really curb carbon emissions and combat global climate change? The idea has been around for years, but now, a new study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that is the first to use a global model to study the question has found that implementing cool roofs and cool pavements in cities around the world can not only help cities stay cooler, they can also cool the world
As support for wind, solar and other renewable energy resources continues to increase, more electrical contractors are getting trained on the required skills for green building.
Coates Design Architects has been awarded LEED© Platinum Certification for a home designed for Ed and JoAnne Ellis of Bainbridge Island, Washington. Coates Design is the first firm to achieve LEED© Platinum Certification for a single-family residence in the state of Washington, outside of the city of Seattle.
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