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GBI Acquires Green Globes Expanding Sustainability

Green Building Law Update

Last week Green Building Initiative announced that it had completed the bold and innovative acquisition of Green Globes from JLL and I had an opportunity to speak with Vicki Worden, President and CEO of GBI and Bob Best, Executive Vice President of JLL. GBI, a nonprofit organization, had first licensed the U.S.

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Dunkin' Donuts Green is a Hot Trend in Green Building

Green Building Law Update

While you were busy enjoying their new “Cronut” croissant donuts, earlier this month Dunkin’ Donuts announced the goal of 100 new DD Green™ certified restaurants by year end 2016. DD Green is a green building certification program that will assist franchisees build sustainable, energy efficient restaurants.

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Rusal America Joins Neighborhood 91 Additive Manufacturing Campus

Business Facilities

Rusal America has joined Neighborhood 91, a development focused on additive manufacturing at Pittsburgh International Airport’s Innovation Campus. Read: Rusal America Joins Neighborhood 91 Additive Manufacturing Campus at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Ontario Investing Nearly $4M In Mass Timber Innovation

Business Facilities

The Ontario government is opening the forest industry to jobs and promoting the use of sustainable renewable resources by investing in its first cross laminated timber plant. Element5’s facility will be one of North America’s first fully automated cross laminated timber plants. Photo: Element5 ).

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Nature as the city: Why it’s time for a new framework to guide development

BD+C

Nature as the city: Why it’s time for a new framework to guide development 0 qpurcell Fri, 05/10/2024 - 09:05 Sustainable Development NBBJ leaders Jonathan Ward and Margaret Montgomery explore five inspirational ideas they are actively integrating into projects to ensure more healthy, natural cities.

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Lean and green – an abstract of the green construction industry

Building Radar

Lean and green – an abstract of the green construction industry Green construction, referring to both structure and the utilisation of environmentally sustainable and resource-efficient processes, no longer bears the stigma of companies run by starry-eyed idealists or business hippies. The future of green construction 1.

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Admixtures and sustainability

GCP Applied Technologies

Admixtures and sustainability. Cement additives and concrete admixtures are construction chemicals that reliably improve the sustainability of a broad range of cement-based systems. Another way that water reducers can be employed to increase sustainability is by using less cement content or more SCMs in the concrete. .