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Coating for sustainability

Construction Specifier

So, the core goal of most industrial coatings is sustainability. All of these sustainability requirements have restricted the use of solvent-borne products, forcing the industry to come up with inventive, low-emitting coating systems. The post Coating for sustainability appeared first on Construction Specifier.

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California is a Model for PACE Loan Reform

Green Building Law Update

California’s statutory changes to its existing residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing program, that became effective January 1, 2017, may be a model for residential PACE programs across the nation. The first residential PACE program started in Berkeley, California in 2007.

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Chase Center LEED Gold Certification: Q&A with Sustainability Team

Stok

So, we decided to sit down with the team that led the Chase Center through its sustainability pursuit: SSR and stok. SSR and stok served as the sustainability consultants to the Warriors’ Chase Center and office tower projects. Lindsey, SSR: Sustainable design of a sports facility is a challenge in and of itself.

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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

Job Order Contracting

Supporting cloud technology – Program, Project, Estimate, & Document Management with export to PDF and spreadsheet formats. Unite States Government Printing Office, House Document No. US Army Sustainment Command. Basic Content Analysis, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, California, 1985. Unite States Congress.

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GreenPoint Rated goes national: what multifamily developers need to know

Stok

GPR began in California and is the state’s leading residential green building rating system with over 73,500 rated homes. Through the process of getting GPR certified, GPR projects in California also fulfill CALGreen compliance. GreenPoint Rated (GPR) is a third-party rating system for healthy, energy-, and resource-efficient homes.

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

Stok

California is the exception, developing its own building energy code—commonly referred to simply as “Title-24”—that leads the nation in establishing a higher baseline for building energy performance. In this case, an energy model is used to document the savings of the aggregated energy performance of the design over the code baseline.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Shaping.

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.