This is driving strong demand for smart grids, green building materials and the like.
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She ended up getting her Masters in Construction Engineering Management, with a focus on Green Building.
Rob was the driving force behind the LEED building rating system at the US Green Building Council.
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Contractors go through a GreenCheck process to make sure they are knowledgeable and capable about green building practices.
Here at the U.S. Green Building Council, we've seen an explosion in the number of existing buildings attaining LEED.
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Every new building completed since 2006 has earned a LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Borchardt: There is no additional cost to design and build a green building.
Energy and durability are the two main focuses of the green building boom.
Rockwool is far from the only green building company to predict growth in 2012, despite the generally depressed housing market.
One of the first areas where Professor Bahaj will contribute to the council's policies is in green building development.
In green building news, architects pushed the frontier of prefab architecture by installing surprising pop-up buildings around the world.
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Editor's Note: This blog introduces readers to Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
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Dynamic windows that can change transparency to manage solar heat gain, glare, and daylighting are building buzz in the green building world.
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The commercial buildings sector boasts the most explosive growth in green building.
All public buildings are basically built with the U.S. Green Building Council.
Intel also reports on increased supplier assessments, renewable power and energy efficiency successes, employee engagement and green building design, among other topics.
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The city boasts a high recycling rate and strict green building standards.
Another example would be the little-known fact that we were one of the co-founders of the US Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1994.
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The USGBC is a leading non-profit organization known for its development of LEED, a global green building program, and its large diverse community.
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With signs of growth just beginning to emerge, now seems a good time to get into green building stocks, before the trend is widely recognized.
In green building news, we shined the spotlight on NASAs new Sustainability Base (which is packed with technology developed for the International Space Station).
But Fessler and Syrett argue that the growing emphasis on green building techniques and a new generation of architects and designers will push demand for such transparency.
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The benefit to a building owner is that a green building can have lower costs and there are many studies that show an improvement in building occupant productivity.
We're excited about 3D printing's potential to build sculptural, eco-friendly forms, but that isn't the only type of green building we've been monitoring over at Inhabitat.
If you're remodeling your home, invest in green building materials.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano's 2008 landmark green building, the California Academy of Sciences, houses Pierre the Penguin and 38, 000 other weird and wonderful animals under a "living roof" of California wildflowers.
To that end, today TripAdvisor launched a new rating service called TripAdvisor Green Leaders, in partnership with Energy Star, the U.S. Green Building Council and the United Nations Environment Program.
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But even beyond that, I'd like to personally thank them for so elegantly capturing the mission of the U.S. Green Building Council, our members and our community: Better Buildings .
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