building-integrated solar News
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EPA awards $30,000 to Arizona State University sustainable design teams
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded a total of $30,000 in grants to two student teams Arizona State University to design a new, less expensive solar energy prototype and the development of gasification and biochar retort technologies, a more sustainable approach to agricultural waste. Both projects are part of EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) program. ...
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Masdar HQ to be located in world`s first `positive energy` mixed-use building
TMasdar announced today that it has chosen Chicago architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS + GG) to design its headquarters in Abu Dhabi's Masdar City, the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste city fully powered by renewable energy. The headquarters will be the world's first large-scale, mixed-use 'positive energy' building, producing more energy than it consumes. In ...
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David Brower Center - integral group`s 8th LEED platinum building
Integral Group (formerly Rumsey Engineers) today announced that the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California was awarded a LEED Platinum certification by the USGBC. This is the firm's 8th LEED Platinum certified building. The project earned 55 out of a possible 60 points (42 points is the minimum for Platinum certification). The design for this landmark mixed use project in downtown Berkeley ...
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NREL Announces New Center Directors to lead R&D, Analysis Efforts
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently named leaders in the renewable energy field as center directors. Paul Basore has been named Director of the Materials Applications and Performance Center; Dave Mooney as Director of the Strategic Energy Analysis Center; Nancy Haegel as Director of NREL's Materials Science Center; Jao van de Lagemaat as Director of Chemistry and ...
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