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Green Builders Opens Home with Environmentally Friendly Decor Including Cabinets, Countertops, Paint, Furniture and Accessories

Green Builders, Inc., the leading large-scale community developer of green, sustainable homes in the Austin, Texas area, has opened its first green merchandised model home in Georgetown Village to illustrate how consumer...

29 Jan 2008

Energy Efficient Homes to be Opened This Week to Showcase State of the Art Developments in Housing Construction

The first of six properties designed to show case state-of-the-art energy efficient housing will be officially opened on Wednesday January 30 2008 at The University of Nottingham. The house built by BASF, a major supp...

29 Jan 2008

Environment and Health to Benefit from Nanotechnology Grants

Americans are famous for building big: the tallest sky scraper, the biggest jet, the widest plasma TV screen. But now U.S. entrepreneurs are considering thinking small. Nanotechnology uses particles 80,000 times smaller ...

29 Jan 2008

Flow Properties of Concrete to be Analysed with Supercomputer

Researchers to use 750,000 CPU hours on the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer to study the flow, dispersion and merging of densely suspended, diversely sized and shaped materials, primarily cement in concrete

25 Jan 2008

HSBC Mexico Headquarters Becomes First LEED Gold Building in Latin America

The HSBC Bank Headquarters Tower, located on the prominent Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, has become the first project in Latin America to achieve LEED Gold status. Established by the U.S. Green Building Council, th...

25 Jan 2008

Cork Flooring Now More Ecologically Efficient

The new generation of cork floorings from Portuguese company Amorim manufactured with BASF’s innovative binder Acrodur® are more eco-efficient than all other compared floorings. This was the result of an Eco-Ef...

25 Jan 2008

Wax Dispersions Add Matte Effect to Aqueous Coatings and Varnishes

Wax dispersions that are ideal for imparting a matting effect to most aqueous coatings and varnishes

25 Jan 2008

Photoluminescent Safety Paint Now Approved for New York City Buildings

Defense Holdings, Inc. (DHi) announced that the New York City Department of Buildings has formally granted a Materials and Equipment Acceptance (MEA) number to the company's breakthrough AfterGloTM High Performance P...

25 Jan 2008

A Flush of Green with Environmentally Friendly, Low Water Urinal

Zurn Engineered Water Solutions, one of the largest manufacturers of commercial plumbing products in the nation, is introducing a “green” urinal system that uses only one pint of water per flush.

25 Jan 2008

Councils Given Power to Raise Millions for New Homes

Councils who back plans for new homes will be able to raise hundreds of millions of pounds to spend on vital infrastructure like roads, schools, parks and health centres. Housing Minister Yvette Cooper is today settin...

25 Jan 2008

Scientists Find Link Between Sick Building Syndrome and Ozone

A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found evidence that the prevalence of building-related symptoms (BRS) increases with increasing outd...

25 Jan 2008

Air Source Heat Pump Efficiency Increased

NIST researchers have developed a testing apparatus that uses a high-resolution camera to track — with laser-illuminated dust particles — the motion and distribution of air flow in finned-tube heat exchangers.

25 Jan 2008

Award Winning New Development Showcased at CABE’s Exciting New Exhibition

Bourbon Lane was the result of a major international design competition to demonstrate best practice and new thinking in affordable housing. The project was run in parallel with a social housing scheme in Paris, and was a initiative supported by CABE and the Direction de l’Architecture et du Patrimonie (DAPA).

25 Jan 2008

MWH Constructors Awarded the Most Improved Contractor in Health and Safety

MWH Constructors, based at Doxford International Business Park, Sunderland, and part of the MWH environmental engineering and water group, has been awarded the 'Most Improved Contractor in Health and Safety' awar...

25 Jan 2008

Environmentally Friendly Approach to Processing Objects Containing Wood Fibres Opens New Opportunities for Biocomposites, Building, Speciality Paper and Packaging Industries

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a method that opens up new opportunities for the use of lignin-containing wood fibres and other natural fibres as well as fibre products. The method offers an innova...

25 Jan 2008