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Implementing an ‘asset drawdown strategy’ for site decarbonization

BD+C

Office Buildings Engineers M/E/P Systems Reconstruction & Renovation Resiliency Sustainable Design and Construction The trend toward building electrification in commercial properties with a view toward decarbonization is increasingly at the forefront of the effort to mitigate climate change.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: California's.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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Passive House is “In” in 2017

Green Building Law Update

You can come up to speed quickly at the North American Passive House Network annual convention on October 4-8, 2017 in Oakland, California. There is a very good article by Bronwyn Barry that highlights the bleeding edge 100% renewable energy calculations embedded in the new Plus and Premium Passive House US standards.

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Race to the Top

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

A week later, we were mesmerized by entrepreneurial genius Elon Musk’s vision of 700-mph magnetic-levitation Hyperloop trains in California. As founder and chairman of an enterprise known as Broad Sustainable Building, he specialized in manufacturing industrial air-conditioning units. What’s eccentric about that?

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

BD+C

Sustainable Senior Living Construction is well under way in Yonkers, N.Y., The plan featured low-rise, high-density housing and mid-rise apartments for seniors that blend affordable housing with all the social and economic elements needed to establish this successful and sustainable community. You’re building shelter for people.”

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Linda Purdy on TRI Pointe's Goals and Challenges in the Colorado Market

Pro Builder

Panels probably would not be feasible, but it would be nice to reduce waste. We always see dumpsters in front of homes being constructed that are full and by doing some sort of pre-planning and measuring we could reduce waste and that would certainly align with our commitment to sustainability. I believe this was a California division.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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SGICC will use the bulk of the D2PA funds to provide grants to PA-based small companies to demonstrate the feasibility of emerging technologies, or seed funds to test and help launch ideas, and to assist in market acceptance and growth of shale energy focused products or services.