LEED certified buildings are intended to use resources more efficiently when compared to conventional buildings simply built to code. However, analysis of energy and water use data from New York City shows that LEED certification does not ...
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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a set of rating systems for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of green buildings, homes and neighborhoods. Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), ...
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The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) and the Health Product Declaration (HPD) Collaborative have formed a partnership to develop a standardized chemical identification, assessment and disclosure ...
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Spartan Surfaces Now Representing SelecTech in Midwest. This arrangement supplements an existing relationship between the two companies where Spartan Surfaces represents SelecTech in the Atlantic Coast region. "We have had a very good ...
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The panel of judges for the third Dal-Tile Interior Design Scholarship, presented by the ASID Foundation, have been announced. This year's scholarship competition, titled "Operation Renovation," challenges students to find a residential ...
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Hong Kong-based Esquel Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of premium cotton shirts, has inaugurated a new garment factory in Luong Son Industrial Zone of Vietnam’s northern province of Hoa Binh. After the ...
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Concrete is ubiquitous in our world today. According to the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), concrete is second only to water as the most-consumed material on earth, and twice as much concrete is used in construction worldwide than ...
Researchers in France have developed a technique to directly grow graphene on aluminium nitride (AlN) crystalline templates on silicon substrates [A. Michon et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, p071912, 2014]. Up to now, attempts to use ...
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Structured loop textile is explored with two new floor covering collections from Milliken, Inis Mór and Landscape. The introductions expand the company's commercial portfolio of high-performance product offerings while broadening ...
Western Energy Control Solutions has announced they will represent Allstar Cable Products, Inc in the Los Angeles marketplace. AllStar Cable Products is a full line wire and cable supplier for the commercial and residential industries. ...
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Dunn-Edwards has introduced a new and improved version of its Aquafall Flat interior dry fall paint. Aquafall Flat is ideal for commercial warehouses, factories, retail outlets, hangars, parking structures and other facilities where ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced the 50,000th LEED-certified green housing unit. “As one of the most rigorous green residential rating systems in the world, LEED for Homes is the standard against which all other ...
Dunn-Edwards has introduced a new and improved version of its Aquafall Flat interior dry fall paint. Aquafall Flat is ideal for commercial warehouses, factories, retail outlets, hangars, parking structures and other facilities where ...
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New sort, map, view features help architects navigate expanded image library PPG Industries' (NYSE: PPG) flat glass business has launched a new and more interactive photo gallery that features hundreds of buildings constructed with PPG ...
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The movement for healthier, high-performing buildings has reached a new milestone, as the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) issued the 20,000th LEED certification for a commercial project. In December 2013, USGBC's Green Building ...
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