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The New Competitive Advantage: A Business Case for Sustainable Construction 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Going green pays off for today’s building owners. Buildings that implement green or sustainable practices typically see lower energy costs. ” But beyond benefits for owners, green construction practices can reap significant rewards for contractors. Do they have any sustainability initiatives going on?

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Coating for sustainability

Construction Specifier

When the project team decided to go green during construction, high-performance coatings might not be the first thing on their minds, but maybe they should be. So, the core goal of most industrial coatings is sustainability. Green Building Council.”. All images courtesy Tnemec Company, Inc. by Jennifer Gleisberg, CSI, CDT.

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Refocus the EPA through the Lens of Green Building

Green Building Law Update

In a time of changing national environmental agendas, including the Trump Pence Transition Team announced plan “to refocus the EPA” it is an ideal moment to articulate how green building is “the” ideal means of voluntarily mitigating the negative impacts that human activity has on the planet. And green buildings do so much more.

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20 Communities To Address Climate Change, Resilience, Social Equity

Business Facilities

Green Building Council is expanding its LEED for Cities and Communities program with a new $500,000 grant from Bank of America. Read: 20 Communities To Address Climate Change, Resilience, Social Equity at BusinessFacilities.com.

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There are More than 40 Million People in Modern Slavery

Green Building Law Update

In a conversation I had with Barry Giles, a true green building pioneer, in 2018, he said, “to truly regard sustainable buildings in a holistic manner, it’s our obligation to start with the supply chain serving the construction industry.”. But today’s ESG statements are only a very small step.

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In pursuit of acoustical equity

Construction Specifier

Therefore, WELL and Fitwel take acoustics into consideration; however, it remains a poorly understood indoor environmental quality (IEQ) parameter, and the lowest rated (referenced from ‘Green buildings and health,’ Global Environmental Health and Sustainability, vol. 2, 2015, by G. MacNaughton, J. Cendeno Laurent, S. Flanigan, E.

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15 Cities, Counties Join Green Buildings Leadership Program

Business Facilities

In partnership with Bank of America, USGBC LEED for Cities certification has provided over $2 million to accelerate action on climate change, resilience, and social equity.

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