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Meet BREEAM, America’s Newest Green Building Certification

Viewpoint Construction Technology

If you work in construction, you’re most likely familiar with LEED certification, the green building standard that many building owners aim to achieve. The BREEAM certification process was developed in 1990 and uses a rating system to assess building sustainability in a variety of categories. How BREEAM Certification Works.

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Construction Management Salaries: What You Need to Know

Fieldwire

Though salaries vary by region, experience, and certification (among other factors), the growing demand for construction managers is likely to drive salaries even higher for the foreseeable future — the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts more than 46,000 construction management jobs will have been added by 2028 , a 10% increase.

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The benefits of biophilic design in the built environment

BD+C

At Portland International Airport in Oregon, we’re working on the PDX Terminal Core Redevelopment Project to implement biophilic elements to create a more pleasing experience for travelers. Skanska’s office, Portland, Ore. The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, Atlanta, Ga. The Eight, Bellevue, Wash.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Magnesium.

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.

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Ready mix concrete resource

GCP Applied Technologies

There's also a growing demand for sustainable concrete, to lower cement's carbon footprint—5% of global emissions come from cement production. Sustainable concrete. Replacing a certain percentage of Portland cement with fly ash imparts workability, allowing the concrete to be placed and finished more easily. Solutions. .

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Ready mix concrete

GCP Applied Technologies

There's also a growing demand for sustainable concrete, to lower cement's carbon footprint—5% of global emissions come from cement production. Sustainable concrete. Replacing a certain percentage of Portland cement with fly ash imparts workability, allowing the concrete to be placed and finished more easily. Solutions. .

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

Building Information Management

LEED Certification, and LEED in general has been a GREAT marketing tool. Is there no better way for GSA to meet sustainability requirement than via LEED? GSA earned the highest rating in all categories in the 2011 sustainability scorecard released from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Ackerstein Sustainability LLC.