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Sustainable Recovery for New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina and Withstanding Future Storms Is Going to Need Alternate Thinking

Calling New Orleans "the canary in the global warming coal mine," two Tulane professors say the Crescent City must embrace unconventional thinking in order to recover in a sustainable way from Hurricane Katrina while withstanding a continual threat from rising sea levels, diminishing wetlands and future storms

22 Mar 2009

Indoor Air Quality Link to Highway Air Pollution

Intensive monitoring of air quality near a major highway intersection could reveal a lot about how the air outside affects the air in our indoor environment

22 Mar 2009

Acropolis Becomes Oldest Building to Join Earth Hour

The Acropolis, a symbol of western civilization, will be the world’s oldest landmark to turn off the lights for Earth Hour and join the global movement against climate change

22 Mar 2009

Dow Takes Styrofoam Insulation Environmentally Friendly

The Dow Chemical Company announced today that it has succeeded in converting its first facility that manufactures STYROFOAM Brand Insulation to its new zero ozone-depleting, no-VOC (volatile organic compound) foaming agent technology

22 Mar 2009

Palusol SW Fire Protection Panels From BASF Get British Standard Certification

BASF's Palusol SW fire-protection panels have now been certified according to the British standard. Fire-protection doors made with Palusol SW have been successfully tested for their capacity to withstand fire for 30 and 60 minutes

20 Mar 2009

BASF Opens New Construction Chemical Technical Center For the Asia Pacific Region

BASF today inaugurated a new Asia Technical Center Shanghai, further increasing its capabilities to develop and offer innovative solutions to Asia Pacific customers in the construction industry

20 Mar 2009

Demand Keeps Increasing For Water Based UV Coatings For Wood and Furniture

The demand for waterborne UV coatings in the wood and furniture protection market has been steadily increasing during the last few years. This is mainly due to the environmental benefits offered by these products

20 Mar 2009

Recycling and Sustainability of Construction Materials Examined

Sustainability of construction materials from Woodhead
Publishing brings together a wealth of recent research on the subject.
A comprehensive analysis of a wide variety of construction materials ranging
from timber to glass reviews the issue of sustainability in context.

20 Mar 2009

Desiging Structures that Can Withstand Earthquakes

Structural dynamics of earthquake engineering: theory and application using
Mathematica and Matlab from Woodhead
Publishing provides an overview of earthquakes and earthquake ground motion
to reinforce earthquake intensity and magnitude.

20 Mar 2009

Are Geopolymers An Alternative to Cement in Construction

The primary application of geopolymer technology is in the development of
reduced CO2 construction materials. Recognised as an alternative to traditional
materials such as Portland based cements geopolymers represent a movement towards
more environmentally friendly engineering.

20 Mar 2009

New and Replacement Vinyl Windows Now Available in a Wider Range of Colors

The benefits of vinyl windows have mostly been black and white - great energy efficiency, affordable and reliable. However, the color options haven’t quite spanned the same spectrum

19 Mar 2009

Big Savings From Improved Energy Efficiency With Jeld-Wen

JELD-WEN put energy efficiency to the test when the company set out to find the worst utility bill in the nation last year. The goal was to see just how much of a difference the latest energy efficient window technology could truly make

19 Mar 2009

Solar Cells Set to Be Incorporated Into Building Materials and Consumer Electronics

The third-generation of photovoltaics (PV - organic PV (OPV) and dye
sensitized cells (DSC) - are in the early stages of development but hold out the promise of cheap solar power that can be integrated into consumer electronics and building materials, according to a Webinar presented this morning by NanoMarkets

19 Mar 2009

New Device Drops Electricity Consumption to Zero For Appliances in Standby Mode

A team of researchers from the UPC Center for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Actuators (CITCEA-UPC) has designed the device 100 Percent Off, which disconnects electronic appliances in stand-by mode and reduces their power consumption to zero

18 Mar 2009

Is The Future of Construction and Property Development Built Around Online Social Media

Do you tweet, poke or get LinkedIn on a regular basis? If the answer is no then could your business benefit from tapping into emerging client development and networking opportunities in these tough times. The jargon ...

18 Mar 2009