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Smaller homes are in the ascendant.
How to choose energy-efficient windows .
Hohm vs. PowerMeter: a side-by-side rundown .
A stimulus that could save money: cash for caulkers .
Green buildings reduce energy use, lower financial risk .
Green buildings: fewer sick days, higher ...
Building/Design
Energy Efficiency
This is the Ross Street House in Madison, Wisconsin. It's located just a mile from the University of Wisconsin campus and the first LEED Platinum home in the entire state! I first noticed the home in an article on Cadalyst , where author Kenneth Wong discussed the use of ArchiCad ...
Building/Design
Wisconsin
Richard Land
Yesterday, First Lady Laura Bush, architect Robert A. M. Stern, and landscape architect Matthew Urbanski unveiled the design of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas. Located on the east side of SMU's campus, the design will complement the consistent Georgian ...
Building/Design
George Bush
George Will
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Architect and interior designer Johnna Barrett, Barrett Design, Inc. , recently launched a set of five modern green home designs ranging in size from 1,800 to 2,500 square feet. Offered for sale on Sustain House , the designs are contemporary and provide for energy savings of 20-30% above ...
Building/Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
There's been a lot of talk of the i-House ever since Clayton Homes announced its launch in about January of this year. The home is contemporary, affordable, and energy efficient. Landowners Bob and Melinda bought a 37-acre swath of land in 2006, hoping to someday build a home on it and ...
Building/Design
Kentucky
Last week at Greenbuild 2009, Perkins + Will unveiled its new Precautionary List , which tracks 25 of the most common dangerous chemicals found in commonly used building materials. The list provides an explanation of the properties of the chemicals with suggested alternatives. Some of ...
Building/Design
George Will
This video of Blu Homes recently hit the Innovation Economy column of The Boston Globe . In This New House , columnist Scott Kirsner gives us a look at the folding prefab technology that Blu Homes uses for homes built in their Littleton, Massachusetts factory. The folding style of ...
Building/Design
Zoning the sustainable city .
Greenbuild's health-based outcome .
Al Gore calls for a green building revolution .
New report highlights water technology opportunities .
Balancing energy needs and material hazards .
California at the forefront of Passive House trend .
Green ...
Building/Design
Al Gore
California
Yes, it's that time again. For the eighth year in a row, BuildingGreen has just announced their list of Top-10 Green Building Products .
BuildingGreen sifts the products from new additions to
the GreenSpec Directory , a print and online guide that organizes green products according to ...
Building/Design
This month, AES Wind installed its first demonstration AES WindJet 5 turbine in Overland Park, Kansas. The twin-rotor turbine is rated at 5 kW and was designed to increase efficiency by up to 54% over existing designs. With a slow rotor speed, the turbine is quieter, more durable, ...
Building/Design
Kansas
Energy Efficiency
This is a beautiful LEED Platinum building located at the corner of East Burnside Street and 11th Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Dubbed Burnside Rocket , the building is probably most recognizable not for its red dress but for the twenty-four operable art panels -- each of which was painted ...
Building/Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
According to a new study by Booz Allen Hamilton and the USGBC , green building will support 7.9 million jobs and pour $554 billion into the American economy over the next four years. Of that, $396 billion will be attributable to wage growth in green building jobs. Green construction ...
Building/Design
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About a week ago, the Rocky Mountain Institute
launched Green Footstep , a free, online carbon calculator
for reducing emissions in building construction and retrofit projects. The website also features three case studies together with an ...
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Rocky Mountain Institute Launches Free Online Tool Green ...
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This is the Idea House by Broadway Malyan
for Sime Darby Property, one of the largest property
developers in Malaysia. The home was designed as an attempt to become the first carbon zero residence in South East Asia. The home would be ...
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Green Modular Malaysian Idea House
The USGBC has unveiled a half-dozen new credits for LEED which are being investigated in a pilot program currently underway. Pilot LEED credits include: Life Cycle Assessment of Building Assemblies and Materials; PBT Source Reduction; Medical and Process Equipment Efficiency; Innovative ...
Building/Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Starchitecture and sustainability .
Capitalizing on the growing green economy .
Five next-gen green building materials to watch .
The Living Building Challenge spreads it petals .
Going back to nature with golf's greener pastures .
Sustainable Sites Initiative gives up to four ...
Building/Design
The USGBC, American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), and The Network of the Hospitality Industry (NEWH) together announced the winner of the first ever Sustainable Suite Design Competition . The purpose of the competition was to showcase the best hospitality design strategies that ...
Building/Design
We've seen building integrated solar by separate companies for use with both asphalt shingles and standing seam roofing . Now SRS Energy and US Tile are preparing to unveil a new Solé Power Tile at Greenbuild. The barrel-style technology was designed for a clay tile curved roofing ...
Building/Design
Energy Efficiency
We first saw this 3form material, Koda XT , with the wavy transit shelters in San Francisco. Designed by Lundberg Design, the colorful transit shelters use a custom configuration of Koda XT, a material made of 40% pre-consumer recycled content. 3form says Koda XT is the only ...
Building/Design
P4P Energy, LLC -- short for Power for the Planet -- recently completed the installation of its first, cable-suspended free span solar system in the parking lot of the headquarters building for REM Eyewear in Sun Valley, California. Designed and patented by P4P Energy and TenSol Power, ...
