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Massachusetts Holds On To Top Energy Efficiency Ranking

Business Facilities

Idaho, Florida, and Virginia are the three most-improved states in the newly released report. “I Idaho posted the most gains by far in 2017, surging past a number of mid-ranked states in ACEEE’s comparative index of efficiency policies, best practices, and other metrics. Idaho advanced seven spots, from 33rd to 26th place.

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EPA Celebrates 20 Years Of Superfund Redevelopment

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Superfund Redevelopment Initiative (SRI), launched in 1999 with the goal of returning formerly contaminated lands to long-term sustainable and productive reuse for communities across the country.

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Gerber celebrates 80th anniversary with Drive 80! campaign.

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Residential Plumbing. in Rexburg, Idaho, and by Eklof Sales at Weinstein Supply in Lancaster, Pa., in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Posted 2 weeks ago in Sustainably Speaking. Forgot Your Password? Classifieds. Digital Issue. Back Issues. Newsletters. Contact Us. Plumbing Commercial Plumbing. Plumbing Contractor. Wastewater.

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Zager Plumbing & Solar appropriately installs solar at its own.

Contractor Magazine

Residential Plumbing. Implementing solar projects are also helping companies to promote environmental sustainability initiatives. Idaho restaurant is first to install solar thermal system. Posted 2 weeks ago in Sustainably Speaking. Forgot Your Password? Classifieds. Digital Issue. Back Issues. Newsletters. Contact Us.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

Building Information Management

Is there no better way for GSA to meet sustainability requirement than via LEED? The recently released sustainability and energy “scorecard” by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) demonstrates just how successful GSA has been at reducing costs, improving efficiency and eliminating waste. Ackerstein Sustainability LLC.

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Feature Story: Public-Private Partnerships – An Alliance For Progress That Works

Business Facilities

Innovation districts consist of office space, residential buildings and mixed-use retail that converge with start-ups, business incubators, mass transit and university-based research to become the new centers of urban economies. MEDC also is leading the charge in helping to develop an urban “innovation district” in downtown Detroit.

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction

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As a prelude, initial insight from home builders, manufacturers, academics, and other industry watchers—several of whom are engaged in the working group to develop the road map—reveal key signposts to making off-site productive, sustainable, and profitable for home building. In more detail, those signposts are: Rethink and retool the process.

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