Tag: sustainability
Proposed Standard Aims to Support New Materials that Maintain Concrete Sustainability
W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Jan. 6, 2020 – A proposed ASTM International standard aims to support use of new supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that are needed...
This Past Decade Has Produced a Sustainability Shift
More companies now realize that sustainability, cost savings, risk aversion, and business growth, all go hand in hand.
Channel Islands Harbor, CA - The past...
Under Construction: Taylor Yard Bikeway and Pedestrian Bridge Over Los Angeles River
By Surur Sheikh
After 22 years in the City of Los Angeles’ books, the Taylor Yard Bikeway and Pedestrian Bridge is underway. Earlier this year,...
Green Badger Announces Carbon Neutral Initiative
Top LEED documentation software now officially offsetting company-wide carbon emissions
SAVANNAH, Ga. – Oct. 16, 2019 – Green Badger, the premier cloud-based LEED certification software...
Zero Carbon Buildings for All Initiative Launched at UN Climate Action Summit
All buildings must be net zero carbon by 2050 to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, but fewer than 1% of buildings are...
Ingka Group invests in first US solar parks
Ingka Group (Ingka Holding B.V. and its controlled entities) strategic partner to IKEA franchisee system, has reached agreement with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to...
Krista Raines Joins Thornton Tomasetti’s Sustainability Practice as Vice President in the San Francisco...
San Francisco – Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that Krista Raines, LEED AP BD+C, LFA has joined the firm’s San Francisco, Calif....
USGBC Research Explores Green Building Industry’s Role in Highlighting the Importance of Buildings as...
As part of its Living Standard initiative, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) released a U.S. public research report titled Standard Issue that sets out to better gauge how the public feels about issues at the core of the green building community’s mission: sustainability, green buildings and the environment.
Are we focused on the right things?
By Indranil Seth
So long as we are passive spectators to the ever growing concern over the protection of the environment, and hence the call...
