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The benefits of biophilic design in the built environment

BD+C

The benefits of biophilic design in the built environment 0 qpurcell Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:30 Biophilic Design Biophilic design in the built environment supports the health and wellbeing of individuals, as they spend most of their time indoors. The Eight, Bellevue, Wash.

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Trump Triumph is Awesome For Green Building

Green Building Law Update

Election day 2016 in which Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States and Republicans control both houses of Congress portends huge business opportunities for green building. The newly elected President is not a 1960s Barry Goldwater environmentalist who favored “federal intervention with regards to the environment.”

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Arc is Electrifying Green Building

Green Building Law Update

Already approaching a Billion square of projects not only in the United States but also from India to Sweden and Israel to Bhutan, if you are not familiar with the Arc platform, that helps a building owner measure performance and benchmark against others, you are missing out on what is transmogrifying the built environment.

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Water/Environment Award of Merit and Award of Merit Safety - T.F. Green Airport Diecer Management System

ENR Construction

Green Airport completed its more efficient stormwater and deicer management system to meet state environmental management requirements in May 2015, the airport collected deicer runoff manually. Before T.F.

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Maryland is First State to Legislate Permitted Use of PFAS

Green Building Law Update

There is an express ‘get out of jail free’ provision for Baltimore-Washington International Airport (but not for other civilian or military airports, because they did not know to ask to be exempted?), There is PFAS fire-fighting foam in use at most if not all 38 civilian airports in Maryland.

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Installed capacity of geothermal heat pumps to grow by 150% by 2020, says study

BD+C

Geothermal heat pump (GHP) systems, which harness moderate and constant temperatures just below the Earth’s surface, are being deployed in nearly every region of the world and in residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial environments with great success.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

In fact, officials of New York City are beginning to re-examine its zoning to ensure green spaces and parks are accessible and equitably distributed throughout the urban landscape. This illustrates the trend of outside spaces being the extension of the built environment. How mid-scapes can be used as an economical productivity booster.