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National Sustainable Buildings Award Won by Innovative Medical Building

An innovative new Aberdeen medical building has been awarded a prestigious accolade in recognition of its environmental credentials. The Suttie Centre for Teaching and Learning in Healthcare received a Building Resear...

24 Sep 2008

Fuel Bills Slashed for Heating and Cooling 300 Year Old House

Mitsubishi Electric Ecodan air source heat pump system uses free energy from the outside air to provide central heating and hot water

24 Sep 2008

Environmentally Friendly Eco Berber Carpet Made from Recycled Materials

Martinson-Nicholls and the Andersen Company have announced their new Eco Berber roll goods. These entryway carpet mats are manufactured with 100 percent post consumer recycled PET Polyester fiber reclaimed from plastic bottles and a natural rubber backing

23 Sep 2008

Ithaca College Building Gets Highest LEED Rating

The home of the Ithaca College School of Business is the first facility for a college or university business school in the world to attain platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) status. The college is also constructing a new administration building to platinum LEED standards

22 Sep 2008

Homebuilder Implementing Green Building Practices To Save Homeowners Money

Home ownership is once again becoming a reality for thousands of Americans. The federal government has just announced a $7,500 Housing Tax Credit for homebuyers, and one Harrisburg homebuilder is helping their cause b...

22 Sep 2008

Tradespeople Being Urged to Join 'Asbestos, the Hidden Killer Campaign'

National asbestos danger awareness campaign is launching in October aimed at plumbers, electricians, joiners as well as other tradesmen

22 Sep 2008

Caterpillar to Unveil Next Generation Mining Trucks

Caterpillar Inc. is unveiling the next generation of mining trucks at MINExpo 2008 in Las Vegas, NV

22 Sep 2008

Residential Fire Sprinklers in New Homes Receive Landslide Support

Voting members of the leading building code body in the nation, the International Code Council (ICC), overwhelmingly supported a residential fire sprinkler requirement for all new one and two family homes and townhouses

22 Sep 2008

Research Leads to Revisions in California Building Code

California has revised its Title 24 Building Standards Code to incorporate use of the automated fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) technology developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

22 Sep 2008

New Swift Bi-Fold Door from Jewers Doors Has Upgraded Features but Retains Original Design Features

On 25 September Jewers Doors will launch its new Swift door system at the DHF AGM

22 Sep 2008

General Electric and Rio Tinto Team Up to Work on Creating the Mines of the Future

Rio Tinto and General Electric today announced that they are working together on two key strategic technology projects, Rio Tinto’s ‘Mine of the Future’ and GE’s ‘Ecomagination’”...

19 Sep 2008

Shortcomings of Foreclosed and Short Sale Homes

New homeowner Dino Ouaddi says prospective buyers should understand the pitfalls associated with buying a foreclosed home and the real benefits of buying a newly built home from a reputable builder

18 Sep 2008

Improving Building Energy Performance Using HOBO LEED Monitoring Kits

Onset Computer Corporation, the “HOBO” data logger company, today announced three new HOBO LEED Monitoring Kits designed to help improve building energy performance while generating credits as specified in th...

17 Sep 2008

InterContinental Opens Eco Friendly Hotel in Chicago

Chicagoland’s new eco-savvy and luxury destination hotel, the 556-room InterContinental Chicago O’Hare, is going above and beyond in its quest to lighten businesses’ impact on the environment

17 Sep 2008

Codding Prefabricates Wall Panels Speeding Up Construction

Codding Steel Frame Solutions (Codding SFS) today announced that they had completed the manufacture and delivery of 1000 lineal feet of exterior wall panels to the new Whole Foods site in Santa Rosa ahead of schedule. Th...

17 Sep 2008