green building design News
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Malaysia`s green initiatives echoed at Frost & Sullivan`s green buildings congress
Frost & Sullivan hosted the Green Buildings Congress Malaysia 2010, today, at the Sime Darby Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur. The congress brought together the best minds, technologies and practices in the industry to share knowledge on latest trends and technologies of green buildings, while offering a glimpse into the assessment methods of green buildings by regulators. Malaysia has been ...
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`Building Green` for environmental sustainability
"Green building" is a term which refers to a better way of designing and constructing buildings in an environmental friendly way. Green buildings consume less energy and resources. With lower operating costs they provide opportunity for better return on investment. There is growing confidence that investment in Green Building and sustainable construction technologies not only make environmental ...
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Green building in Greece takes home the gold
The first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design building to achieve gold certification in the country has water-saving technology, an internal wastewater treatment plant and rainwater collection system for irrigation and toilets. All with the help of Grundfos pumps. Surrounded by thyme, rosemary and lavender, Architect Sandra Bär sits down, smelling the herbs. Now, you might think ...
By Grundfos
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GSA Transforms 1974 Building Into Top Performing Green Building
Today, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced the completion of the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building renovation project in downtown Portland, Oregon. The 39-year-old facility is now a high-performing green building designed to be one of the most energy efficient office buildings in the country. U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer and representatives from the project ...
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Green building standards under construction
The world's leading certification system for sustainable architecture is set to undergo its most sweeping changes in 2009. The proposed revisions encourage designs that would reduce a building's impact on global climate change. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, commonly known as LEED, has become the standard for green building design since the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), a ...
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Delta India Electronics` Rudrapur Plant LEED Certified
Delta India Electronics Pvt. Ltd., the world’s leading provider of power management and thermal management solutions, today announced its Rudrapur plant has successfully achieved LEED certification as “Gold-rated” green building and received the honor from the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). LEED certification is an international standards system for green building design ...
By Delta Group
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LEED Homes May Not Be Less Toxic
EMSL Analytical offers LEED testing solutions for both new and existing commercial and residential properties. Cinnaminson, NJ, July 14th, 2010 Environmental and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting human health, recently released a study that questions whether LEED certified homes are less toxic than average homes. The U.S. Green Building Council ...
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OriginWater Selected into “Made in China 2025” Screen Manufacturing System Integration Project
A few days ago, headed by Beijing OriginWater in cooperation of Tsinghua University, the “New-type Membrane Water Treatment Environmental Protection Equipment Green, Intelligent Design and Manufacturing Platform Construction Project” has been approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the Ministry of Finance as a 2017 green manufacturing system ...
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Corporate Campus Managed by Jones Lang LaSalle Receives First-of-Its-Kind LEED EBOM Gold Certification
Jones Lang LaSalle announced today that LEED ® Gold certification has been awarded for one of the Yahoo! properties under its management portfolio. Jones Lang LaSalle managed the LEED ® certification process for Yahoo!'s Sunnyvale, Calif. headquarters, a 1 million-square-foot collection of seven office buildings located at 701 First Ave. The 11-year-old buildings earned LEED ...
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