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International Green Construction Code Marches Forward
The U.S. Council of Mayors (PDF) recently called on local governments to adopt the International Green Construction Code. Maryland (PDF), Rhode Island, and cities like Richland, Washington (PDF) have...
View ArticleWashington State May Soon Increase Efforts to Enforce High Performance...
In its preliminary report titled “High Performance Buildings: Impact on Energy Use is Mixed” (PDF) issued this spring, the State of Washington Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC)...
View ArticleNew “Green” AIA Contract Forms
The American Institute of Architects is planning to issue an additional set of contract forms aimed at sustainable projects in early 2012. The new forms will contain an “SP” after their numbers to...
View ArticleBuilding Green: Living Building Challenge and Performance-Based...
Jurisdictions with green-building mandates typically use LEED, SITES, BREEAM or other sustainability protocols that are based on a checklist of best practices. Under a check-list standard, applicants...
View ArticleThe American Institute of Architects launches new Sustainable Project...
This month at its annual National Convention and Design Exposition, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) released five new construction documents for sustainable or “green” project construction...
View ArticleLEED Cover Story
USA Today this week features a series of stories based on its analysis of U.S. Green Building Council’s records and its rating system known as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)....
View ArticleConstruction labor shortage forecasts
In a report titled “Construction Industry Workforce Shortages: Role of Certification, Training and Green Jobs in Filling the Gaps,” McGraw-Hill Construction in May 2012 found that 69% of architect,...
View ArticleU.S. Green Building Council launches powerful information web portal
This month at Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) launched a web portal called Green Building Information Gateway, coined “GBIG”—available at www.gbig.org. USGBC describes GBIG as “a...
View ArticleLEED Cover Story: Green Schools
Yesterday, as part of its Green Inc. series of articles, USA Today reviewed the benefits of sustainable schools in a cover story titled “Green schools: Long on promise, short on delivery.” Citing...
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