Pro Builder

APRIL 1, 2021

From community solar installations to a push in some municipalities for all-electric building codes, interest in solar keeps growing. The power comes from 688,360 solar panels across 870 acres just north of town that provide electricity to the entire community. Sustainability. Thu, 04/01/2021 - 13:50. Energy Efficiency.

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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

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. However, the average U.S.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Legally a bicycle, the ELF is pedal powered and assisted with a solar powered electric motor. Organic Transit, manufacturer of the ELFpedal/electric vehicle, has outgrown the old retail furniture store where it began in 2011 in downtown Durham, NC. If the ELF did use gasoline, it would get the equivalent of 1800 mpg. Made in the U.S.,

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Contractor Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Home > Green > Geothermal > California Geo Bill passes General Assembly. California Geo Bill passes General Assembly. Championed by the new California Geothermal Heat Pump Lobby Coalition (CalGeo), AB 2339 (Williams/V.M. Related Articles California Geo Bill passes General Assembly. Project Management.

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BD+C

JANUARY 10, 2024

Award-winning civic design firm RossDrulisCusenbery joins DLR Group DLR Group today announced the acquisition of Sonoma, California based civic and public safety design firm RossDrulisCusenbery (RDC). Architects DLR Group today announced the acquisition of Sonoma, California based civic and public safety design firm RossDrulisCusenbery (RDC).

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In California, PG&E customers pay 80 percent more for electricity than the national average. Roberts partnered with Schneider Electric™ to give Providence Homes the ability to demonstrate the potential energy savings from a connected, home ecosystem. Giving homebuyers the power to manage energy costs. Here’s how it works.

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Natural Building

JULY 22, 2008

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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Pro Builder

JUNE 10, 2021

Each home will have solar panels, electric vehicle chargers, and high-performance features that limit the need for air conditioning, heating, and ventilation. They are launching a methane capture program at a California dairy farm and installing rooftop solar in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Los Angeles County. Sustainability.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 10, 2013

And then last Friday, President Obama signed a memorandum directing the Federal government to consume 20% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, more than double the current goal for solar and wind of 7.5%. Only one application reached the public comment stage, the California project described in our post above.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Trish Donnally MFPRO+ Blog Higher Education University Buildings Multifamily Housing Affordable Housing Senior Living Design Student Housing Designers Architects Projects Sustainable Development To say the United States is facing an affordable housing crisis is a major understatement. And that’s just California. It gets worse.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The key to that positive change resides in the same place in California it did in North Dakota—buried more than a mile underground in the middle of a huge shale deposit. Thus far, California hasn’t dived head-first into an embrace of fracking. Source: Energy Information Administration based on data from various studies.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 25, 2015

That is, most consumers of electricity are not, today, permitted to aggregate their purchase of photovoltaic generated electricity with others, except through their electric power utility. Today there are only a handful of community projects actually producing power in Arizona, Colorado, California and Maryland.

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Pro Builder

MARCH 16, 2023

BotBuilt uses the latest technology to implement advanced motion planning with computer vision to build a more sustainable future for construction, forever changing the way the world builds with automation. On the homeownership side, the Agency uses various down payment and closing cost assistance programs to assist first-time homebuyers.

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Natural Building

MARCH 5, 2010

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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Stok

AUGUST 28, 2019

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. Natural ventilation through operable windows has been a common ventilation strategy for high-rise residential buildings in California.

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Natural Building

MARCH 22, 2009

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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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The home will use no fossil fuels but instead will be heated and powered by electricity, she said. Eventually, Draper plans to create her own renewable electricity. “I Believe it or not, straw bale houses are some of the few that survived some of the California fires,” she said. Draper said no. So it’s hard to get fire in it.

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Natural Building

JANUARY 3, 2009

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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Natural Building

MARCH 9, 2010

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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Natural Building

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Massachusetts broke its 2016 tie with California by holding on to the No. Rhode Island’s third place ranking in this report, up from fourth last year, demonstrates that our investments in electric and natural gas energy efficiency programs are paying off.”. The ACEEE 2017 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard. OTHER KEY FINDINGS.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Available online at [link] , the State Scorecard shows that the top 10 states for energy efficiency are: Massachusetts, California, New York, Oregon, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Maryland, and Illinois. The leading states in building energy codes and compliance are California, Washington, and Rhode Island.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 6, 2012

Sustainability. ENR California. Description: A proposed standard that would provide a common basis for electrical energy consumers to describe, manage and communicate about electrical energy consumption and forecasting is open for an advisory public review until Sept. Search our site: Infrastructure. Transportation.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

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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Pro Builder

AUGUST 6, 2021

Products from California Closets, ClosetMaid, Glen Dimplex Americas, Halo, Kichler Lighting, and VintageView. Products from Aprilaire, Broan, LG, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic, and Trane Technologies. Mechanical + Electrical. sustainable materials. . Customized storage / California Closets. Appliances.

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Construction Knowledge

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

As Hurricane Sandy buzz-sawed through the Northeast, knocking out power for 8.5M, we get to examine the electrical grid in crisis. The fragile nature of how our electricity gets delivered is showcased by any natural disaster. A lot of these local electric highways were built in the 1960s and 1970s, with little built since.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 28, 2016

More than a dozen states have made themselves attractive locations for large data center projects, primarily by offering targeted incentives and lower-cost electricity. will receive all of its electricity from a 202-megawatt wind farm being built 100 miles northwest of Fort Worth. The deal includes $146.7

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Business Facilities

JULY 24, 2019

A state may have the largest installed capacity of a certain type of renewable energy, but that state won’t meet its renewable energy portfolio standard’s goal if only 10 percent of its electricity is generated from renewables. California remains the Sun King by far (more than five times the installed solar power capacity of any other state).

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 8, 2014

Since the onset of shale gas production, Pennsylvania businesses and homeowners have benefited from a 50 percent decline in natural gas prices and a corresponding 40 percent reduction in the cost of electricity. Wind energy is now the fifth-largest electricity source in the U.S., Wind power in the U.S. The expansion will?be

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Pro Builder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

They have to pitch in and get involved because they all realize that we won’t have sustainable economic growth if housing is too expensive here.”. Evolving Sustainability . Also, starting in 2020, every home is pre-wired for an electric vehicle charging outlet. BamCore: Bamboo As a Lumber Substitute?

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Fieldwire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She says she wants to empower other women to pursue an electrical career because many don’t make it far. of the world’s electricity generation, increasing by 26% since 2021. These professionals install and maintain solar panels to ensure they work correctly and reduce the strain on electrical grids.

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ENR Construction

JULY 31, 2012

Sustainability. ENR California. Electricity for nine states in the northern grid, supporting about 370 million people, went off at 2:00 a.m. Keywords: India Blackout ; Northern Grid ; Central Electricity Authority ; The Energy and Resources Institute ; TERI. Search our site: Infrastructure. Transportation. Environment.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 6, 2012

Sustainability. ENR California. Description: Blackout underscores yjr gap between Indias growing demand for electricity and supply. Search our site: Infrastructure. Transportation. Environment. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams. Rebuilding Japan. Gulf Oil Spill. Building Types. Construction Methods. Haiti Reconstruction.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

AUGUST 15, 2023

Additionally, the construction has made significant strides in sustainability and inclusivity, so professionals can contribute to a greener future while enjoying a more diverse work environment. She is a big proponent of sustainable practices, and Autodesk is a great resource for those looking to reduce wasted materials on jobsites.

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Stok

APRIL 25, 2021

California is officially “ready” for its first zero carbon homes. The first of four single family homes in Marisol Malibu ’s new zero series in Malibu, CA has achieved Zero Carbon Ready status through the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) and is on track to become the first Zero Carbon Certified building in California.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 20, 2012

Sustainability. ENR California. Heery is also designing mechanical/electrical/plumbing improvements for the entire building: emergency power, building automation controls and low-voltage power. California 9/13 The University of California, Irvine is seeking design-build firms to design and build Business Unit 2.

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