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California Embodied Carbon Legislation: How to Prepare for AB 2446

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Some exciting news coming out of California means big things for Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), which analyze a product’s full life cycle environmental impacts and identify prioritized areas for carbon reduction. Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) dives deeper in its embodied carbon policy educational series.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

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These factors include… poor formal and professional education in the domain, low investment in research and development, deep rooted project culture, perceived long life-cycle of associated return on investment, resistance from construction projects’ participants and stakeholders, and lack of real property owner leadership and competency.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Locations are bringing higher ed resources and high-tech businesses together to plant the seeds for market-ready advanced technology at incubators and innovation institutes, and to create the STEM-savvy workforce that will fill these new jobs. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

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Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. New Expert Panelist on Green Education. Austin Tinting said. Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. The Earth-Sheltered Solar Greenhouse.

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Achieving Best Value for Facility Renovation, Repair, Maintenance, and Construction – 2016 and Beyond

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As one might anticipate lack of education, awareness, and capability, with respect to life cycle management of the built environment and/or total cost of ownership management, are the primary causal factors, as well as, resistance to change which is endemic to the sector as a whole. University of Texas at Austin.