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Toyota's New Texas Headquarters to Get 25% of Power From Sun
Jun 8, 2016Toyota will use solar panels at its Texas headquarters, which is currently under construction, in order to get 25% of its power from the sun. The company claims that the 7.75MW system will be the largest office-site solar installation in ...
Tags: Toyota, solar panels
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Wilkins Invests $3m in New Sri Lankan Factory
Oct 27, 2015The Wilkins Group is investing over $3m into a brand new state of the art factory on the island of Sri Lanka. The Wilkins Group bought the land overseas back in 2013, and work began on the two-acre site at the back end of last year, with ...
Tags: Wilkins Group, LEED certification
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H. B. Fuller Lüneburg Adhesive Academy Awarded LEED Certification
Sep 15, 2015H.B. Fuller has announced that its newest technical centre of excellence, the Adhesive Academy in Lüneburg, Germany, is LEED certified to the Gold level. It is the first laboratory building in Germany that has achieved a Gold ...
Tags: LEED Certification, H.B.Fuller
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Bureau Veritas and GBCI to Facilitate Leed Certification Internationally
Jun 1, 2015In a recent signing ceremony, Bureau Veritas and Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), the certification body for the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED green building program, finalized the terms of their exclusive global ...
Tags: LEED Certification, LEED
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CREE Introduces Wavemax Technology as Waveguide Platform Featuring a Combination of Contol
May 4, 2015LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced WaveMax Technology as a waveguide platform featuring a combination of control, uniformity and efficiency to deliver solid-state lighting in new form factors that ...
Tags: LED Luminaires, Cree, LED Chip
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LEED Plans to Recognize Living Building Challenge Energy & Water Requirements
Apr 13, 2015The U.S. Green Building Council will now recognize energy and water requirements from the Living Building Challenge (the Challenge) green building system within the LEED green building program. “USGBC and the International Living ...
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USGBC Announces Recognizing Energy and Water Requirements
Apr 7, 2015The U.S. Green Building Council has announced that it will now recognize energy and water requirements from the Living Building Challenge (the Challenge) green building system within the LEED green building program. “USGBC and the ...
Tags: The U.S.Green Building Council, LEED, green building rating system
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Dupont Has Been Awarded The Prestigious Leadership in LEED
Mar 19, 2015DuPont, the world’s leading science company, has been awarded the prestigious Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Certification in Gold Category for the DuPont Knowledge Center (DKC) in Hyderabad, India. DKC is an ...
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Why Specialty Retailers and Contractors Should Use Premium Underlayment?
Dec 30, 2014Often considered a throw-in, an afterthought, underlayment for new hard surface glue-down, nail-down and floating floors in residential and commercial installations is anything but. Underlayment that is well matched to the floor covering ...
Tags: Premium Underlayment, floors
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Kohl's Department Stores Has Been Recognized in Green Power Award
Nov 25, 2014Kohl’s department stores has been recognized with 2014 Sustained Excellence in Green Power Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The annual awards honour leading green power users for their commitment and ...
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Hanley Wood and USGBC Announce The Results of The Greenbuild International Conference
Nov 24, 2014Hanley Wood and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) have announced the results of the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, held recently in New Orleans. According to show officials, attendance at the event totaled 17,507, with ...
Tags: Hanley Wood, Construction
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Cree ZR HE LED Troffer was Designed to Reduce Energy Consumption
Oct 11, 2014LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced the ZR High Efficacy (HE) LED troffer, a commercial-specification-grade troffer with luminous efficacy of 150 lumens-per-watt designed to reduce energy ...
Tags: LED, LED Chip, Electronics
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GreenWizard and The Mohawk Group Have Formed a Three-Year Emerald Partnership
Aug 21, 2014GreenWizard, a product management platform of building product data and documentation for sustainable and green construction, and the Mohawk Group have formed a three-year Emerald Partnership. According to the companies, the partnership ...
Tags: GreenWizard, Partnership, Construction
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WhiteWave Announces Green Building Certification of Its Beverage Manufacturing Facility
Jul 24, 2014WhiteWave Foods, a leading consumer packaged food and beverage company that makes Silk, Horizon, International Delight and Earthbound Farm products, has announced green building certification of its beverage manufacturing facility in ...
Tags: WhiteWave Foods, beverage, Agriculture
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Custom Building Products' Emerald System of Products Were Used
Jul 10, 2014Custom Building Products’ Emerald System of products were used by the builders and developers of Township 14 to pursue LEED Gold certification as well as gain carbon offset credits. The builders and developers of Township 14, a ...
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