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Green construction tips to make your facility environmentally friendly

The Korte Company

While juggling sustainability and profitability at the same time is a challenge, construction companies can help owners achieve both by implementing green construction principles. Harness natural resources with green construction. In a way, green construction is partly an exercise in holistic thinking. It’s also free.

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Adding Efficient Construction Management and LEED Certification to Lower Operating Costs

Constructonomics

homes and offices remain inefficient. The United States Green Building Council, a national non-profit organization, is credited by many for paving the way toward more responsible construction. The study did not look at any other green innovations, like improved insulation or energy recycling.

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The New American Home 2022: Thinking Inside the Box

Pro Builder

And so it is not only appropriate, and certainly no coincidence, that The New American Home 2022—the 38th annual idea home built in the host city of the International Builders’ Show —exemplifies those new standards. office, which conceived the 4,674-square foot coastal-style home for the massive Orlando-area master plan of Lake Nona.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Building with.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Kelly Hart has been involved with green building concepts for much of his life. An idea whose time seems to have arrived is the use of stockpiled shipping containers as modular units for building homes. Name: Kelly Hart. Location: Crestone, Colorado, United States.

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Blu Homes Moves Corporate Headquarters To Mare Island, CA

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Blu has now added 100,000 square feet of storage and office space to its existing 250,000 square feet of manufacturing facilities on the island. “Two decades after closing down…this elegant building now centers a new vision for premium home building and green manufacturing in America,” said Blu CEO Bill Haney.

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2009 Energy Code Adoptions Required by ARRA--Where are They Now?

Green Building Law Blog

In the four years since ARRA, eighteen states still have no energy code at all or have residential codes that do meet the ARRA requirements, and fifteen states still have no energy code at all or have commercial codes that do not meet the ARRA requirements. A map of the status of every state's energy codes is available here.

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Milwaukee, WI Selected As Global Hub For New Energy Innovation Center

Business Facilities

” M-WERC envisions the center as a resource for both entrepreneurs—independent individuals with ideas they want to transform into successful businesses­—and “intrapreneurs”—individuals employed by companies who have an idea that they want to turn into a profitable product or service offering, Perlstein added.