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The Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association, (PRSM), an authority on retail, multi-site facilities management, launched a resource designed to help the retail facilities manager evaluate and procure green cleaning agents and equipment, and develop processes that create a mor...
The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability In The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability, 7group's principals and integrative design pioneer Bill Reed introduce design and construction profes...
The global green building market is being rapidly driven by the business case. Sixty-one percent of firms globally will be doing 60 percent or more green projects by 2015, more than doubling today’s 28 percent. New commercial construction is driving future green growth with 63 percent...
The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability In The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability, 7group's principals and integrative design pioneer Bill Reed introduce design and construction profes...
Like many typical college students, I was broke when I graduated. I owned a car that I couldn’t afford to drive. But I had a plan. I went to the local bank and asked the banker to lend me $100 for a bicycle so I could afford to live. My reasoning was that I wouldn’t have car insurance...
A building energy labeling program that allows the industry to zero in on opportunities to lower building operating cost and make informed decisions to increase value has been expanded to include an As Designed label. The program is now two labels in one: an As Designed label that rat...
Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Systems increased the Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC) of its Ultima High-NRC ceilings to 0.80, meaning the ceiling panel absorbs 80 percent of the sound that strikes it. Ultima High-NRC ceilings also feature an Articulation Class (AC) of 170 and Ceiling Atte...
The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) announced that 1,000 projects have now been LEED certified in Canada. The certifications total 145 certified, 316 Silver, 447 Gold and 92 Platinum projects across Canada, in six different ratings systems. The certified buildings range from sin...
