W.F. Taylor announces a new adhesive. MS Plus Resilient Acous-Tec MBA Multifunctional Adhesive for resilient flooring now offers 3rd party certified sound deadening ratings of 59 IIC & 61 STC, meeting or exceeding major building code sound ...
Tags: Construction, flooring, Adhesive
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 ...
The use of nanotechnology has led to the development of a temperature-sensitive filter that can be applied to the inside of a piece of glass. RavenBrick calls this patented material a thermochromic filter. This filter is important in the ...
Tags: Nanotechnology, High Tech Building
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) ...
Tags: PPG Industries, PPG Glass
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 ...
Tags: Green Sports, Construction
The complete line of high-performance I.G. sealants developed by Fenzi, leading manufacturer of chemicals for secondary glass processing, will be on display at the Atlanta exhibition. By way of its North America subsidiary, Fenzi will be ...
Tags: Glass, Construction
While employment and productivity in the construction industry are on the upswing nationwide, the West Coast is seeing slower growth in parts. Construction employment in Oregon and Washington is growing steadily, but slowly. California's ...
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 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Construction
As of July of 2013, more than 512 lighting manufacturers, 316 retailers/distributors and 8,524 light products represent the LEED lighting facts label. To someone in the lighting industry the lable may make sense, but to those with limited ...
Tags: LED Lighting, lights, LED
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. ...
Tags: Green Building, Construction, Decoration
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
The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $15,000 to the Air Force Museum Foundation for construction of a fourth major building at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, ...
Tags: Construction, PPG
The Guardian Chair features a bulletproof vest that can be draped over the chair, worn or kneeled behind in event of a shooting. On display at NeoCon, the famous office furniture expo held in Chicago last month, were all the usual ...
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