Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services' Noida laboratory has become the first Product Testing Laboratory in India to be certified as LEED Gold by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). This is a prestigious award for the ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) today announced LEED Professional Credentials have been approved for college credit through New Jersey's State Energy Sector Partnership (SESP) initiative. SESP is the result of an award to the NJ ...
Tags: Green Building, Construction
City Furniture has opened a 35,000-square-foot Ashley Furniture HomeStore here on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, replacing another temporary location. The store is the third in a five-store expansion underway by the Top 100 company, which ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has released its inaugural LEED in Motion report, a holistic statistical snapshot of the green building movement aimed at equipping its members with the insight to make a strong case for sustainable ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has released its inaugural LEED in Motion report, a holistic statistical snapshot of the green building movement aimed at equipping its members with the insight to make a strong case for sustainable ...
PPG Industries announced that the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, which is LEED Platinum certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, was constructed with SOLARBAN 70XL STARPHIRE glass, CORAFLON ADS (Air-Dried System) ...
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With millions of sports fans visiting LEED-certified green sports venues every year, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is proud to announce a collaboration with the Green Sports Alliance, a prominent nonprofit organization supporting ...
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IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) today announced that they will collaborate to rapidly scale up the construction of green buildings in emerging markets. The new partnership demonstrates ...
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Intense Lighting, Inc. a leading manufacturer of award-winning LED specification grade lighting solutions, announces the nationwide launch of the MB Mini (MBM), a high performance, precision-engineered compact version of the award-winning ...
How do you use packaging to communicate your sustainable strategy to customers? Come and find out. On July 17, 2013, Jim Hanna, director, environmental impact, Starbucks Coffee Co., will speak at the Packaging Digest Global Food & ...
Tags: Packaging, Sustainability, Gateway
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced today that its membership has voted to adopt LEED v4, the next update to the world's premier green building rating system. The final overall vote was 86 percent in favor of adopting LEED v4. ...
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Today the Department of Defense released the findings of an independent report on energy efficiency and sustainability standards used by the Pentagon for military construction. The report strongly affirmed the value of LEED-certified high ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, LED, LEED
US-headquartered confectionery giant Mars has broken ground on a $82m production line for Twix chocolate bars in Egypt, in order to cater to the Middle East and African markets. The new manufacturing facility is located at the company's ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Chocolate
One of the best-backed players in the smart glass industry, Sage Electrochromics Inc., is making some of its first deliveries from the world's largest electrochromic glazing plant, one capable of producing up to 4 million square feet of ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced it will once again join Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) and the Institute for Professional and Executive Development (IPED), an affiliate of Nixon Peabody LLP, to co-host the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration