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ISP Introduces SunCare Lignin Protection Products for Wood Coatings

At this year's European Coatings Show (ECS), ISP introduced a new line of coatings ingredients designed to protect wood from degradation and yellowing caused by UV radiation. Called SunCare(R) Lignin Protection, the ...

1 Apr 2009

Green Seal Environmental Certification For Owens Corning Building

Owens Corning, a world leader in building materials and glass fiber reinforcements, today announced that a building at the company's science and technology center in Granville, Ohio, has met the Green Seal environmental standard for cleaning services

1 Apr 2009

Centex Brings Energy Efficient Homes to the Carolina Coast

Centex Corporation today announced that construction is under way on nearly 200 energy-efficient homes in neighborhoods across South Carolina's Lowcountry. Collectively, the new Centex homes now in progress are proje...

1 Apr 2009

Bayer Launches Host of New Thermal Insulation Products

Bayer MaterialScience is presenting a whole host of new developments in thermal insulation at Utech 2009 in Maastricht that enable real estate owners and tenants to make significant savings in heating costs and also unde...

31 Mar 2009

Revitalising Parking Lots and Pavement After The Ravages of Winter

Parking lots and pavement take a beating every winter. In the Southeast, constant freezing and thawing leaves lots faded, frayed, pocked, and potholed. That's bad news for retailers, medical complexes and others t...

31 Mar 2009

Sustainable Urban Development Competition Launched in Helsinki

Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, and the city of Helsinki are launching an international competition for building a sustainable and innovative block in the Western Harbor of Helsinki

31 Mar 2009

Environmental Restoration of Army Land Returns Hundreds of Acres of Developable Land to Fort Bragg's Inventory

The prevalence of previous environmental contamination on portions of the installation presents challenges to the process. Fort Bragg must rely heavily on its Installation Restoration Program (IRP) to efficiently and effectively restore these contaminated areas for mission-critical construction

31 Mar 2009

CPower to Manage Energy Program for Lafarge North America

CPower, a leading energy management firm, today announced that it has been selected by Lafarge North America, a diversified supplier of construction materials, to manage the company's energy conservation at its Raven...

31 Mar 2009

Digital Realty Trust Use BREEAM Datacentre Scheme in Their Buildings Throughout The World

Digital Realty Trust have adopted the BREEAM Datacentre scheme for their buildings throughout the world and expect to achieve significant environmental and cost savings by doing this

31 Mar 2009

Environmentally Aware Apartment Block and Retail Outlet to Join BRE Innovation Park

Work starts this week on a Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6 four-storey apartment block complete with an M&S Simply Food store which will form part of the Phase II expansion of the BRE Innovation Park. With insu...

31 Mar 2009

Building With Passive Solar Energy System Gets Results

theEnergyCrowd.com the crowd-source based developer of renewable energy technologies has announced that the initial stage of its first project has proved successful. A passive solar energy based system for capturing heat energy for either long or short term storage started producing results - even during late winter months

31 Mar 2009

Team California Starts Construction on the 2009 Solar Decathlon House

While thousands of students have been away on spring break, a handful of them stayed behind to begin construction on their solar-powered house for the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon

31 Mar 2009

New Jersey's Licensed Environmental Professionals Bill Expected to Speed Up Cleanups of Contaminated Sites

A bill passed by the State Senate and Assembly should help break the logjam of 20,000 contaminated sites in New Jersey that need to be remediated before they can be redeveloped, said James A. Kosch, a veteran environment...

31 Mar 2009

Valley's 'Brown Cloud' Targeted by New Environmentally Safe Construction Project

The construction site of First Mesa Commerce Park is set to become ground zero in the war against construction-related air and water pollution as a team of businesses demonstrate an advanced, "green" constructi...

30 Mar 2009

FBI Chicago Building Earns USGBC Environmental Award

Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Regional Facility, located in Chicago, Illinois, officially received a Platinum-level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED EBOM) award from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC)

30 Mar 2009