LEED standard News
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D.C. green building law hits enforcement snag
One of a handful of laws in the US requiring private buildings to meet LEED standards, legislation passed in 2006 in Washington, D.C., may be unenforceable as currently written. According to theWashington Business Journal, the D.C. Department of Environment is working to address a complaint from the surety industry, which issues bonds that guarantee the completion of construction projects. The ...
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Soy Paint Meets New LEED Standards
In an effort to grow demand for U.S. soybeans, the soy checkoff partnered with Sherwin-Williams to develop paints made from soybean oil and recycled plastic bottles. The paints won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Award for reducing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by 60 percent, making them safer to use. Recently, the LEED (Leadership in Energy ...
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Building a green community space Amid Political Controversy - park 51 to be first certified Green Mosque in the country
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Environmental Policy Advisor and Interfaith Activist from New York City, notes that despite all the recent drama over Park 51, the Muslim community center will set a new standard for environmental construction of community spaces for religions of all kinds. In an article on The Daily Beast, Abdul-Matin explains how the project will be the country’s first certified ...
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Darden headquarters earns LEED gold certification
Darden Restaurants today announced that its new corporate headquarters building in Orlando has been officially awarded Gold certification for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for New Construction (NC) from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). The 469,000-square-foot facility, which opened in September, is the largest LEED Gold NC building in Florida. 'Our new home ...
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NASA`s Newest Building Earns Highest Environmental Rating
After Lesa Roe, the director of NASA's Langley Research Center, had watched the New Town Phase I building go up during the last 23 months, after hearing about the environmentally friendly technology in it, even after working in the building for six weeks, there remained an unknown at Friday's ribbon-cutting ceremony here. Still photographs from today's event are available on Flickr at ...
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U.S. Green Building Council Announces 2021 LEED Homes Awards Recipients
Today, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced the recipients of its annual LEED Homes Awards, which celebrate green residential projects, developers and builders using LEED to improve quality of life for residents, reduce a building’s impact on the environment and create healthier and more resilient communities. Recipients represent multifamily, single family and affordable ...
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Jones Lang LaSalle to Market Solyndra Facility in Silicon Valley
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jones Lang LaSalle has been chosen by Solyndra LLC to sell the solar panel manufacturer's corporate headquarters and primary production facility located at 47488 Kato Road in Fremont, Calif., and the engagement has been approved by the Bankruptcy Court overseeing Solyndra's bankruptcy case. The team in charge of marketing the building is led by ...
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Uncertainly certified
CSRHUB Blog This post originally appeared on Triple Pundit as part of the "Crowds of Ratings" series. By Bahar Gidwani The folks at BigRoom have worked for a couple of years on a side project (their main goal is to launch an .ECO suffix for the Internet). They are trying to capture, document, and categorize the various green, eco, and sustainability-oriented certification programs. So far, ...
By 3BL Media
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Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings Appoints Kent Peterson to Advisory Committee
Kent Peterson, chief engineer and principal of Long Beach-based P2S Engineering, has been appointed to the Federal Green Building Advisory Committee (GBAC). Serving under the GSA’s Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, established by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), Peterson will serve as a representative of the ...
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Xylem, ESD announce move and expansion of Xylem’s world headquarters in Westchester County, N.Y.
Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company, and Empire State Development (ESD) today jointly announced that Xylem will relocate its headquarters to a larger facility in Westchester County later this year, keeping more than 100 jobs in the state of New York, and creating 15 more by 2016. The company has signed a 10-year lease to rent the second and third floors at Reckson ...
By Xylem, Inc.
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Rebuilding Greensburg greener than ever
Flattened by a massive tornado on May 4, 2007, the small west Kansas town of Greensburg, intends to become more than green in name only. The town that lost 95 percent of its structures in the storm has focused its recovery on rebuilding as a model green community. On December 17, 2007, the Greensburg City Council adopted a resolution that all city buildings greater than 4,000 square feet will ...
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Eco-friendly construction giant faces attacks
An eco-friendly building rating system that has powered a green arms race across the nation now faces a challenge from policymakers and an upstart rival. LEED, the longstanding king of green construction and renovation projects, has become a de facto brand in cities such as Portland, Ore., where sustainable growth has been the rage for years. But that could change as legislation and executive ...
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August Mack Environmental receives the first gold LEED certification for commercial interiors in Indianapolis
August Mack Environmental, Inc., a full-service environmental, health and safety consulting firm, is pleased to announce that its Indianapolis office has received Gold LEED Certification for Commercial Interiors from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The Indianapolis office of August Mack, located at 1200 N. Meridian Street, is the 13th project in Indiana to reach a LEED certification and ...
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Green design certification set to raise bar for North American building industry
Emphasis on LEED certification and incorporation of energy efficiency measures increasingly characterize the function of the building sector in North America. This sector witnesses a significant shift toward 'greening' and sustainability. Buildings in both the US and Canada account for a major portion of each country's total resource consumption, while releasing substantial quantum of carbon ...
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Risk Experts Team With Lockton To Provide Risk Management Insights At 2013 RIMS Conference
Risk experts and four Lockton executives will team up to provide insights on innovative risk management programs at the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) Conference April 21-24 in Los Angeles. The programs include: Complying with new OSHA rules to avoid discrimination against workers who report injuries Improving risk management programs in the transportation industry. Dealing ...
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Help USA & newark Mayor Cory Booker break ground
In response to President Obama's recent call to end homelessness in the United States, HELP USA broke ground today with Newark Mayor Cory Booker and The Make It Right Foundation on its second Newark project located at 634-648 Clinton Avenue. The project provides 56 units of rental housing for veterans and low income families. Funding for the project was provided through Low Income Housing Tax ...
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States fight green-building leader over local wood
A building supplier phoned Pollard Lumber Co. about providing wood for a large government construction project in Georgia, but the deal broke down over a single question about how the family-owned sawmill has committed itself to environmentally friendly practices. The mill in rural Appling holds certification by a national forestry group to verify it uses timber harvested in a sustainable ...
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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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Suzlon global headquarters `One Earth` receives `LEED Platinum` certification
New corporate HQ achieves top sustainability certification, making it one of the world's greenest Campus powered 100 percent by renewable energy Pune/Washington, D.C.: Suzlon Energy Limited (SEL), the world's third-largest* and India's largest wind turbine manufacturer accepted on Thursday, April 29, the Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) Platinum award for its new corporate ...
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Omega convenes environmental leaders to explore creative solutions to economic, environmental, and social issues
Today, Omega Institute, a nationally recognized environmental steward in New York’s Hudson Valley, announced Design by Nature: A Conference on Sustainable Design for a New Earth, will be held on its Rhinebeck, New York campus, from October 19–21, 2012, and will feature inspiring stories from extraordinary people working to build a more sustainable and just world for everybody. ...
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