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.
PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) performance glazings business has introduced Sungate(R) 400 glass, a passive low-emissivity glass with a magnetron sputtered vacuum deposition (MSVD) “soft coat” that helps commercial buildings in heating-dominated climates retain heat from the sun and reduce winter heating costs.
Ricoh Americas Corporation, a provider of document management solutions and services, and digital office equipment, completed the construction of Ricoh Eco Board at 3 Times Square. In celebration of the Eco Board’s completion, a ceremony will be held in Time Square, New York.
Owens Corning (NYSE:OC) Cem-FIL® alkali-resistant (AR) glass fibers will take the field at the opening match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 11.
Pascal Bigras, executive director of Nature-Action Québec, Henri-François Gautrin, Verdun MNA, and Claude Trudel, Mayor of Verdun Borough, announced the launch of a greening project “Verdun fait sa fraîche” in the Verdun Borough. The three-year greening project is designed to mitigate the urban heat island effect and anticipates in making the vegetation cover denser in the neighbourhood of Borough’s Wellington-De l'Église.
SABIC Innovative Plastics’ commitment to helping builders and architects strengthen sustainable building designs by increasing energy conservation, all while improving working and living environments has led to another industry game-changer – new 1000 mm-width Lexan* Thermoclick* polycarbonate (PC) 50 mm sheet system.
Alcoa, an early adopter of Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) certification for its Kawneer architectural aluminum products, joined in the launch of the Green Products Innovation Institute (GPII), which took place yesterday at Google’s campus in Mountain View, California.
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has supplied “green” products in support of World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, including low-emissivity (low-e) glass and low-volatile organic compound (VOC) coatings for expo pavilions as well as waterborne paints to protect more than 1 million square meters of elevated roads near the event.
In green building, the importance of building technology has been increasing. This is obvious from the theme of World Expo 2010 Shanghai, for example. Uponor offers a wide range of advanced systems to help reduce the environmental impact of buildings and of living, and we are delighted to see our products appear on several pavilions.
Zen Windows, a respected Ohio company proudly provides its customers with quality, energy-efficient windows that meet and exceed the federal government’s current ENERGY STAR guidelines. The ENERGY STAR designation simplifies consumer-purchasing decisions by identifying windows that comply with the strict criteria set forth by the U.S. Department of Energy and provides homeowners with a 2010 federal tax credit.
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