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Aircrete Walls Prove Successful in Environmentally Friendly and Energy Efficient Home

Solid walls of Thin Jointed H+H aircrete proved to be a fast and effective answer when Paulo Mondadori wanted to build an energy efficient and environmentally friendly executive home in Wimbledon, south west London

22 Aug 2008

Pilkington K Glass Recommended for The Green Homes Retrofit Manual.

Pilkington K Glass has been recommended by the Housing Corporation’s Fit For The Future – The Green Homes Retrofit Manual

22 Aug 2008

CertainTeed Invests In Unique, Environmentally Friendly Building System

CertainTeed Corporation, has made an investment in ARXX to
further develop the growing market for ARXX's innovative Apex Block, a naturally insulating cement-foam building material used for both above and belowgrade walls

22 Aug 2008

Lessons Learnt from BRE Code for Sustainable Homes Added to Information Paper

Lessons learnt by the first four developers to design and build to the Code for Sustainable Homes on the BRE Innovation Park have led to the compilation of detailed guidance in a BRE Information paper entitled Applying t...

22 Aug 2008

Optima Leading the Way for Greener Construction in the Partitioning Industry

As the warnings keep on coming about the state of our planet, Optima, the UK's market leading partitioning specialist has vowed to completely cut waste to landfill out of their operations through recycling by 2010

22 Aug 2008

Best Practices Forum for Ethics Organization in the Construction Industry

The Construction Industry Ethics and Compliance Initiative ("CIECI"), founded in late April 2008 by the CEOs of thirteen of the leading U.S. construction industry contractors, will hold its first Forum on Octob...

22 Aug 2008

New York Nuclear Power Plant at Risk of Earthquake

A study by a group of prominent seismologists suggests that a pattern of subtle but active faults makes the risk of earthquakes to the New York City area substantially greater than formerly believed

22 Aug 2008

Stained Glass Windows Use Nanotechnology to Purify the Air

Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered

22 Aug 2008

Insulate America Names Owens Corning Supplier of the Year

Owens Corning announced that it was recently named Supplier of the Year by Insulate America, the largest group of locally-owned, independent insulation contractors in the United States. This is the third time that Owe...

20 Aug 2008

Most Advanced and Environmentally Friendly Concrete Mix Used in Green Casino Resort

iCrete, a company that is revolutionizing the construction industry with its concrete mix design technology system, has delivered some of the world's most advanced and environmentally friendly concrete mix designs for the construction of Revel Casino Resort

20 Aug 2008

Real Wood Floors are Natural and Carbon Neutral

Through the process of photosynthesis, carbon dioxide and water are absorbed from the atmosphere, and oxygen is released back into the atmosphere. This process makes wood -- and wood floors -- a carbon neutral product. In addition, wood flooring actually stores carbon throughout its service life, adding to its carbon neutral status.

20 Aug 2008

Last Chance to Participate in Green Building Best Practices Conference

The first ever Green Building Best Practices program has met with great success. Hundreds of building industry professionals from around the world have already participated in this educational series sponsored by WPL Pub...

20 Aug 2008

Olympic Performance for Owens Corning FOAMULAR XPS Insulation

Owens Corning announced that its FOAMULAR(R) XPS foam insulation was used in the construction of the floors, steps and parking lot of the main 2008 Beijing Olympic venue, National Stadium, in Beijing, China, and in other...

20 Aug 2008

Octillion to Further Develop Nanopower Window Technology

Octillion Corp., a next-generation alternative and renewable energy technology incubator, today announced that it has entered into a Sponsored Research Agreement with scientists at Oakland University to further the devel...

19 Aug 2008

Self-Cleaning Coating Utilizes Natural Photocatalyst and Nanotechnology

Green Earth Nano Science, Inc., a nanotechnology solutions provider and global supplier of proprietary photocatalyst* coatings, recently introduced its newly improved, easy to apply, green, environment friendly, transpar...

16 Aug 2008