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Real Time Monitoring of the Water Supply to a Building Developed

Although most Americans take the safety of their drinking water for granted, that ordinary tap water could become deadly within minutes. To combat the threat of contamination due to industrial spillage, natural disaster or sabotage, the physicist has developed a new system to monitor the safety of a building or community's water supply in real time

12 May 2009

New Tool Determines Environmental Impact of Offices

Office premises cause a significant part of society's environmental effects. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a tool together with Rapal Oy that can be used to determine the environmental load caused by various premise solutions

12 May 2009

Sustainable Architectural Aluminum Products From Alcoa Kawneer Increases Energy Efficiency of Hospital

Alcoa announced that a range of its Kawneer architectural aluminum products are contributing to the “green” campus of the new Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. The facility incorporates Kawneer products that maximize daylighting and thermal performance, including curtain wall, sunshades and thermally broken windows and doors

12 May 2009

Design and Construction Firms Say Stimulus Package Not That Stimulating

The final verdict is still out, but as of now the stimulus package hasn't been all that stimulating when it comes to infrastructure projects across the county, according to the top CEOs from leading design and constr...

12 May 2009

Chinese Drywall Litigation To Be Examined at Conference and Two Teleconferences

Attorneys and experts will gather in New Orleans on June 18 to share information and network on the latest health and property damage controversy involving building materials: drywall imported from China. They also are g...

12 May 2009

New Minimum Design Standard For All New Public Buildings in the UK

Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Culture Secretary Andy Burnham are today urging councils and developers to put good planning, local character and high quality design at the heart of development. A new cross-Go...

12 May 2009

Controlling a Smart Home With Your Thoughts

Light switches, TV remote controls and even house keys could become a thing of the past thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology being developed in Europe that lets users perform everyday tasks with thoughts alone

11 May 2009

CEMEX Cuts Carbon Emissions and Makes Sustainability Progress

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: CX) today announced that it continues to make substantial progress toward its goals as a sustainable building materials company with the achievement of three of its sustainability targets ahe...

11 May 2009

America's Greenest School Finalists Have Been Selected

America votes online for the nation's top singers and celebrity dancers, but now they can vote online to decide which school deserves the title of America's Greenest School

11 May 2009

Building Blanket To Protect Space Explorers From Radiation

A group of students at North Carolina State University has developed a "blanket" of sorts that covers lunar outposts - the astronauts' living quarters - to provide astronauts protection against radiation while also generating and storing power

11 May 2009

Energy Conversion Devices and Enfinity to Co-Develop of Solar Rooftop Projects Across the US and Europe

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) (Nasdaq: ENER) and Enfinity, NV today announced plans to co-develop a portfolio of rooftop solar installations throughout the U.S., as well as in numerous European countries, includi...

11 May 2009

LED Lighting Competition Switched On

In the “LED - Emotionalize your light” competition of ideas from 8 May until 23 July entrants have the opportunity to create emotional lighting concepts and designs with LED technology and present them to the “light enthusiast” community

11 May 2009

Expert Says US School Buildings Should Get Green Renovation

Going green with new construction is a good idea, but what about renovating existing structures? Like, say, the 20 billion square feet of existing U.S. public schools, 40 percent of which have 15 million students in poor environmental conditions?

11 May 2009

New High Power SKILSAW Gives Professional Performance

SKIL Power Tools is proud to offer the next generation of SKILSAW with the new HD5687. This new circular saw takes its heritage from the Worm Drive SKILSAW and offers the ultimate combination of unmatched performance, lightweight design and unbeatable value and is designed to tackle any project on the jobsite

11 May 2009

Red Cross Help Build More Than 100,000 Houses One Year After the Sichuan Earthquake

One year after an 8.0 magnitude earthquake killed more than 69,000 people and destroyed an estimated 5 million houses in southwest China, communities are filled with the signs and sounds of recovery. The focus has shifted from putting up prefabricated, transitional shelters and distributing relief items to constructing more permanent, earthquake-resistant homes and helping people work through their emotional trauma

11 May 2009