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Are Green Building Rating Systems Really Sustainable?

Natural Building

Professor Janis Birkeland is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne who has taught sustainable planning and architecture at several universities. Previously, she worked as a planner, architect, and lawyer in San Francisco to gain insights into the impediments to sustainability. Is this really progress?

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Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification

GCP Applied Technologies

Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification. The webpage also provides downloads—helpful worksheets and a "Guidelines" PDF 1 —for plants to make strides toward sustainability. The webpage also provides downloads—helpful worksheets and a "Guidelines" PDF 1 —for plants to make strides toward sustainability.

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Concrete’s cobra effect: unintended results of embodied carbon reduction

Construction Specifier

Perhaps less known is how cement itself changed just three to four years ago with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations requiring cement kiln dust (CKD) waste to be recycled into batches of new concrete. This remedial work is not only expensive and time consuming, but undermines the very effort to be sustainable.

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ESG Poll Results Drive Strategies for Business

Green Building Law Update

12% of companies consider ESG metrics in executive compensation. In the most compelling response, 86% believe there will be mandatory ESG disclosures and more ESG regulation within the next 12 months. In a disappointing result, only 11% were highly confident that their company’s ESG program is sufficiently robust.

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Green Building Law Update

Some believe this tying of the consideration to “current” standards, as opposed to the regulator determination at the time the tank was closed, creates a Faustian bargain for the environmental professional, and will greatly limit the supremely valuable designation of HRECS. 9601) and petroleum products.”. 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

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 Hart has been involved with green building concepts for much of his life.

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You can Participate in our Survey of ESG Activity in the Marketplace

Green Building Law Update

Does your company consider ESG metrics in executive compensation? Do you believe there will be mandatory ESG disclosures and more ESG regulation within the next 12 months? Do you favor of mandatory ESG disclosures and more ESG regulation within the next 12 months? highly confident, moderately, minimally, not at all].