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Bathroom Faucets and Fixtures Now Available in Velvet Aged Bronze Finish

Price Pfister, a leading manufacturer of kitchen and bath fixtures and accessories, today introduced Velvet Aged Bronze, an entirely new faucet and fixture finish never before seen in the industry

2 Jun 2009

Sustainable School Building Made In America Using Bamboo

Bamboo Living, the global leader in sustainable bamboo building helped build the first American school building made of sustainable bamboo

2 Jun 2009

Energy Efficient Retrofits For Buildings to Come From "Green Bootcamp"

Living Cities offers city and state officials an unprecedented opportunity to learn new strategies and share best practices on creating green jobs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions through city-wide retrofitting

2 Jun 2009

Green Building to Focus on Water Efficiency

Over the next five years, water efficiency and conservation will become critical factors in green design, construction and product selection

2 Jun 2009

Green Building Innovations Shown Off at INSITE09

INSITE09 Constructing the Future opens it doors today to thousands of visitors who will be the first to see the latest phase of sustainable development on the BRE Innovation Park which includes The newly refurbish...

2 Jun 2009

Ceiling Insulation Installation Gets Easier for Australians

Environment Minister Peter Garrett has announced a new streamlined process and new guidelines to make it even easier for 2.9 million Australians to install ceiling insulation in their home

2 Jun 2009

Does a Roof Have to be White to Save Energy?

Recently, the U.S. Secretary of Energy encouraged Americans to paint their roofs white, in an effort to reduce global warming by both conserving energy and reflecting sunlight back into space. A white roof is a good idea, but a highly reflective metal roof is even better

31 May 2009

Opening of One of America's Greenest Buildings

An opening ceremony for what could be one of North America's greenest buildings — a flagship building on the cutting edge of sustainable design and energy efficiency — will take place at Washington University in St. Louis' new Living Learning Center at the university's Tyson Research Center

31 May 2009

Environmentally Friendly Paving Solutions in New England from Aggregate Industries

Aggregate Industries Northeast Region (AINE) has quickly become one of the leading developers and suppliers of innovative asphalt products designed to ensure high quality solutions that are environmentally friendly. Thro...

29 May 2009

'Recycled' Office Building to be Built From Steel Shipping Containers

The City of Providence celebrated its newest development project this week; a creative green office building on Harris Avenue on the west side of Providence that will be one of the City's most distinctive contemporar...

29 May 2009

CERAM Slip Resistance Testing Shows No Deterioration After Years of Foot Traffic

Being able to prove that a flooring product can stand the test of time is important to any manufacturer. Stonhard, the world’s largest manufacturer and installer of high performance epoxy resin floor, wall, coating and lining systems, was able to do just that when they asked CERAM to carry out slip resistance testing on a resin floor at IBM Stuttgart.

28 May 2009

Stainless Steel From ThyssenKrupp Nirosta to Clad New Heron Tower in London

The framework of Heron Tower in London will be clad with some 185 metric tons of stainless steel panels manufactured by ThyssenKrupp Nirosta

27 May 2009

Fiberglass Face Sheet Introduced With New Textures for Door Finishes

Special-Lite, Inc. has introduced a new fiberglass reinforced polyester (FRP) face sheet with a more aesthetically-pleasing, fine-grained texture for use on exterior flush doors. The exclusive new “sandstone textur...

27 May 2009

Toxic Chinese Drywall Problem Should Be Dealt With By Congress

America's Watchdog calls on President Obama and Congress to intervene in case of toxic drywall from China

27 May 2009

Xunlight Shows Off Thin Film Solar Power Technology

Xunlight Corporation successfully demonstrates its high-throughput, wide-web, roll-to-roll photovoltaic manufacturing process for the production of high-efficiency thin-film silicon PV modules

27 May 2009