Washington State May Soon Increase Efforts to Enforce High Performance...
In its preliminary report titled “High Performance Buildings: Impact on Energy Use is Mixed” (PDF) issued this spring, the State of Washington Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC)...
View ArticleThe American Institute of Architects launches new Sustainable Project...
This month at its annual National Convention and Design Exposition, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) released five new construction documents for sustainable or “green” project construction...
View ArticleHeightened Energy Conservation Goals in Washington’s Building Code Withstand...
On the same day that the United States Supreme Court issued its decision covered by every single newspaper — including, for instance, The Washington Post and New York Times — on whether Arizona’s...
View ArticleLEED Cover Story
USA Today this week features a series of stories based on its analysis of U.S. Green Building Council’s records and its rating system known as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)....
View ArticleU.S. Green Building Council launches powerful information web portal
This month at Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) launched a web portal called Green Building Information Gateway, coined “GBIG”—available at www.gbig.org. USGBC describes GBIG as “a...
View ArticleLEED Cover Story: Green Schools
Yesterday, as part of its Green Inc. series of articles, USA Today reviewed the benefits of sustainable schools in a cover story titled “Green schools: Long on promise, short on delivery.” Citing...
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