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Retrofitting exisiting buildings with green roofs improves their sustainability
Retrofitting is a very common practice that consists in the addition of new technologies to older buildings or systems. A more cost-effective practice in comparison to the construction of new facilities. As for existing buildings, the aim is the improvement of the energy efficiency, through thermal insulation. In this case, green roofs lend themselves perfectly for this purpose. Since buildings ...
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Iglu'® Green Roof by Daliform Group for green roofs in the cities. New gardens for the city’s life.
Green architecture against the social degradation. A trend which is spreading day by day not only like a concept of the residential and private building’s furniture, but also to redevelop some degraded suburbs’ areas with innovative solutions from the technological point of view. This is the case of a social housing complex in the city of Boulogne Billancourt (France), once inhabited ...
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EPA funds greener brownfields projects
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing more than US$500,000 in technical assistance for 16 Brownfields Sustainability Pilots. Assistance will support sustainable activities such as the reuse and recycling of construction and demolition materials, green building and infrastructure design, energy efficiency, water conservation, renewable energy development, and native ...
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WESTON AND GREENGRID® HONORED BY MAJOR INDUSTRY PUBLICATIONS
- 2005 EBJ Technical Merit Award Winner - 2005 Buildings Magazine Editor’s Choice – Top Products Pick CHICAGO, Ill.—February 8, 2006—GreenGrid® green roof installations by Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®), have been honored by Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) and Building Magazine, two major publications in the environmental and building-services industry. EBJ awarded GreenGrid® ...
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First GreenGrid® installation in Atlanta area by Weston Soultions
On April 10, 2008, Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®) successfully completed the installation of a GreenGrid® Green Roof System atop the Bunzl Administration Center of the High Museum of Art at the Woodruff Arts Center in midtown Atlanta. While not the first green roof in the Atlanta metropolitan area, it is the largest modular system installed to date. The 6,680-square-foot green roof sets an ...
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Guide for Design Sustainable Low-Slope Roofing Systems
ASTM International Committee D08 on Roofing and Waterproofing, through its Subcommittee D08.24 on Sustainability, is developing several standards for sustainable roofing systems. One such standard is WK26599, Guide for Design of Sustainable, Low-Slope Roofing Systems. “The proposed standard embraces the fact that the primary purpose of the roofing system is to protect the top of the ...
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Landscape Architects` Green Roof Kept Runoff Out of DC Sewers
WASHINGTON, DC, September 21, 2007 (ENS) - In July 2006, The American Society of Landscape Architects, ASLA replaced the conventional roof on its downtown Washington, DC headquarters with a green roof, and in the process installed equipment to gather data on stormwater runoff, water quality, and temperature. When the figures were tallied in May, the new green roof was found to have retained ...
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Revolutionary bonding method for roofing
Trelleborg Waterproofing offers the Electrobond revolutionary bonding method for the Elastoseal roofing system that proves economical over a long service life. Trelleborg Waterproofing introduces Electrobond, a new and revolutionary method based on a state-of-the-art induction heating technique, for fixing Trelleborg Waterproofing’s advanced Elastoseal roofing system to buildings. As the system ...
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EPA awards p3 grants to college teams for environmental innovation / students develop technological and scientific solutions that protect the planet and create jobs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded grants today to six college teams across the country who participated in the 7th annual EPA People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) award competition held at the National Sustainable Design Expo on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The P3 award competition and National Sustainable Design Expo were a part of the 2011 EPA Earth Day celebration ...
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Weston recognized with two environmental business journal achievement awards
The Environmental Business Journal has awarded Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®) its Business Achievement Award for Technology Merit: Sustainable Construction, and Project Merit: Energy & Infrastructure for 2007. A special awards ceremony was held at the Environmental Industry Summit in San Diego on February 20, 2008. WESTON received technology merit for achieving a major milestone by ...
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Weston relocates its regional headquarters to concord, new hampshire
Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON<sup>®</sup>) has relocated its regional operations to Concord after revitalizing a former industrial property into a vibrant, sustainable “green” office building. This move is a “homecoming” of sorts, as WESTON’s offices were located in Concord for twenty years before the company moved to Manchester in 1996. WESTON’s newly constructed building is ...
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Enterprise rent-a-car leads car rental industry in sustainable construction; $150 million investment over five years
A new industry-leading effort is under way to make all newly constructed and retrofitted Enterprise Rent-A-Car locations sustainable. Over the next five years, Enterprise will invest more than $150 million in sustainable construction through the use of a newly established set of guidelines called the Enterprise Sustainable Construction Protocol (ESCP). A comprehensive framework for sustainable ...
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A Rhapsody in Reynobond®: Oberlin College’s New Jazz Building Clad in Alcoa Architectural Aluminum Panels
The Bertram and Judith Kohl Building, a virtual rhapsody in Alcoa’s Reynobond aluminum composite material (ACM), has applied to become the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certified music conservatory in the U.S. The Bertram and Judith Kohl Building at Oberlin College in Ohio is a virtual rhapsody in Alcoa's Reynobond(R) architectural ...
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Eco Expo Asia 2008: Post-show report
The third edition of Eco Expo Asia, Hong Kong’s only trade fair which is dedicated to products, services and solutions for environmental protection attracted over 6,000 visitors from around the world, an increase of 20% compared with 2007. International visitors accounted for nearly 60% of the overall attendance at the fair. The show opened from 28 – 31 October 2008 at AsiaWorld-Expo. The most ...
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Over 6,000 visitors attend Eco Expo Asia 2008, an increase of 20% compared with 2007
The third edition of Eco Expo Asia, Hong Kong’s only trade fair which is dedicated to products, services and solutions for environmental protection attracted over 6,000 visitors from around the world, an increase of 20% compared with 2007. International visitors accounted for nearly 60% of the overall attendance at the fair. The show opened from 28 – 31 October 2008 at AsiaWorld-Expo. The most ...
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WESTON recognized with 2009 environmental business journal and climate change business journal achievement awards
The Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) and the Climate Change Business Journal (CCBJ) have awarded Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®) 2009 Business Achievement Awards for projects incorporating sustainable cleanup solutions and sustainability principles. Project Merit: Remediation/Waste Management acclaim was awarded by EBJ for the safe implementation of a sustainable cleanup solution at ...
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Geosyntec Consultants Awarded WERF Funding for Innovative High-Performance Green Infrastructure Research
Geosyntec Consultants (Geosyntec) announced today it has been awarded funding under a Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) program for the design, installation, measurement, and analysis of a series of actively controlled, distributed green infrastructure ('high-performance green infrastructure") approaches for urban stormwater control. Geosyntec will demonstrate through this $175,000 ...
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ProGeo delivers real-time monitoring system for green roofs of the new luxury district
The luxury district One Chicago, which is currently under construction, will receive a large number of residential apartments as well as a large public area with malls and shops. The roofs of these areas form park-like areas for the residents and visitors of the new building. To avoid risks from undetected leaks and as an innovative tool for the scheduled maintenance of the built-up sealing ...
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Recycled Carbon Fiber Strengthens Pervious Concrete
The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is a dramatic example of some increasingly common water problems because it faces a triple threat: The sea level is rising from climate change. The city is sinking due to low aquifer water levels from overuse. Impervious concrete covers so much ground that the rain can no longer recharge the aquifer. Rain that could keep wells from running dry and stop ...
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Nordson Corporation Earns Prestigious LEED® Certification for its Headquarters Facility
Nordson Corporation (Nasdaq: NDSN) today celebrates the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Sliver certification of its headquarters building in Westlake, Ohio. The building becomes the first corporate headquarters in the greater Cleveland area to be awarded LEED certification, according to the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED ...
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