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Talking Human Health and Buildings at Greening the Heartland

By Chris Pyke, PhD on 08 Oct 2014 • 1 minute read

The 2nd annual BUILDING Chicago/Greening the Heartland Expo took place last week in Chicago, Illinois. The conference drew architects, engineers, contractors, property owners, developers, and many more from across the region for a three-day event organized by USGBC-Il …

Leveraging LEED v4 to Spur Market Transformation of Building Materials

By Adam Maynard on 02 May 2014 • 3 minute read

Last month, Tom Lent, Policy Director of the Healthy Building Network sat down alongside Brendan Owens, VP of LEED Technical Development at USGBC, for a lunch talk entitled Building Material Transparency: We Should Care What’s in Our Buildings. It was the second suc …

Human Health, Wellness, and Experience

By Chris Pyke, PhD on 04 Nov 2013 • 7 minute read

For two decades, the green building movement has been propelled by a shared vision for market transformation. This vision was largely drawn from the energy efficiency community, and it has been rooted in two essential elements: (1) a shared definition of green buildin …