With grant funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the US Green Building Council and researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA) are conducting a systematic descriptive analysis of the representation of health and wellness wi …
By Dan Winters on
20 Nov 2013 •
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Over 350 of the Northeast’s top professional real estate appraisers packed the room at the annual 2013 New England Appraisers Expo held just outside Boston. The dominant theme was how the private market adoption of LEED and ENERGY STAR along with increased transpare …
By Mira Panek on
19 Nov 2013 •
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This year, exhibitors at the Greenbuild Expo have a new way to promote their products and services beyond the booth. We’ve introduced LEED Highlight Collections in GBIG, a self-service feature that allows companies to associate their brand with high-performing buildin …
If sustainability is defined by the triple bottom line of environmental, economic and social benefits, the green building movement has a long way to go on the road to creating sustainable projects. Programs like LEED have transformed the market on environmental metrics. …
“In the last 30 years, mankind has produced more information than in the previous 5,000."
This is a statistic from a 1997 Reuters Magazine article entitled, Information Overload Causes Stress. Here we are 16 years later, and it seems that this trend of information …
By Sean McMahon on
14 Nov 2013 •
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The Greenbuild 2013 education program will once again feature special sessions dedicated to advanced research in green building. These sessions dig deeper into complex green building concepts, and are intended to make Greenbuild attendees more aware of interesting resea …
By Joel Ann Todd on
14 Nov 2013 •
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Lots of people in the fields of green building and sustainability are talking about “social equity” these days, recognizing that it has been a neglected part of our work. While buildings are not the only or even the major cause of many inequities, what can our int …
Very few people walk into a hardware store and say, “I am looking for a mixture of calcium silicate, magnesium oxide, clay and sand for my driveway, can you tell me how much calcium sulfate to use if I want it to set quickly when I pour it this weekend?”
Most peo …
Last month USGBC convened a small group of industry and academic leaders to discuss how to increase information transparency in the building materials supply chain and leverage that transparency to transform the marketplace to remove hazardous ingredients from products. …
The products used to create and operate our homes and commercial buildings have far-reaching consequences for human health and the environment. Today, we are in the middle of revolution in the consideration of the attributes and impacts of the products used in our built …
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