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Green Globes and the Living Building Challenge join LEED in passing the GSA’s review for use in federal projects, an increase from just LEED in 2007.
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Projects include geothermal systems, rainwater catchment, ICFs, and straw bale construction.
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Green construction is moving from a niche to the mainstream.
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The proposals would have extended the lapsed $500 Existing Home Retrofit Tax Credit.
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While buyers aren’t looking for more house these days, they are looking for houses that do more.
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Materials matter—at the end. Green building means building better, says eco-guru Peter Yost. Here’s how to show clients you mean business.
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The Defense Department has been pulled into a different kind of battle than it's used to–the fight over the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED system and its preference for wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
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A just-passed bill promoting a more expansive view of green building certification programs at the Pentagon is generating cheers among lobbyists opposed to an exclusive embrace of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED system and a "bring it on" attitude from the USGBC. It also marks the start of...
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The Pentagon spending bill passed by Congress will force the military to provide a cost-benefit analysis and return on investment on its sustainable building efforts and will prohibit, through Sept. 30, any spending on reaching LEED gold and platinum certification.
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In what could be a major step toward quieting the wood-certification dispute, the U.S. Green Building Council has proposed giving credit under its LEED program to several currently unrecognized wood-certification groups for at least helping bring more transparency to green construction efforts.
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The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association added its voice to the housing industry's call against efforts to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction, even as the NLBMDA favored a legislative and regulatory policy agenda that echoes the surge in pro-business, anti-regulation...
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Green Depot, the self-titled nation's biggest building material dealers specializing in environmentally sustainable building products, grew even larger when the New York-based company announced it had acquired Ecohaus, a similar operation with locations in Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland, Ore.
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The two major interest groups sparring over a potential U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) benchmark for wood-certification schemes are backing much different ideas now that USGBC has failed to approve a proposed standard that wood-certification groups would have to achieve to have their...
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Gaze out the windows of William Swanson's office at Hoffrichter's West Side Lumber and you'll see the usual collections of lumber, cabinets, faucets, and doors.
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A dozen years ago, architect Sarah Susanka wrote The Not So Big House, a book that tapped into a yearning among Americans for homes that spoke more to comfort than to the showy, cavernous spaces of those much-derided McMansions.
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Being fair can be particularly tricky when you're an organization that prides itself on being open and democratic.
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Jessica Williamson, a designer with National Lumber's Kitchen Views Custom showroom in Newton, Mass., won second place in the Best Small Kitchens category at the National Kitchen and Bath Association's 2010 Design Competition. The strength of the Cape Cod project lies in Williamson's ability to...
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John H. Myers & Son addressed two issues when it created a new showroom recently in Aberdeen, Md. It wanted to show off what its designers could do, but it had to do that in just 1,000 square feet.
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Time was, says Bill Tucker, "a material man was a material man, and that was it.
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ProBuild Holdings will open new locations in Orem, Utah, and Winchester, Va., the nation's biggest LBM operation announced.