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Updated 5/9/2012

How to Select Windows: Understanding 7 key decision drivers

The latest BuildingGreen special report includes:

  • Anatomy of a high-performance window
  • How to use NFRC ratings
  • The framework you need to make informed choices on windows
  • Smart strategies that save money

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For Educators: Free Green Building Course Syllabus

Sign up for a free campus-wide trial of BuildingGreen Suite and get a sustainable-design syllabus outline.

New GreenSpec Insights

Toxic chemicals in unfinished wood floors? 

Hokwang FastDry High Speed Hand Dryer —


The Taiwanese company Hokwang Industries offers four high-speed hand dryers under the Fastdry brand: one with a stainless steel cover, one with a porcelain-coated cover, and two stainless steel units…

RainXchange System —


Aquascape produces the RainXchange system for below-ground storage of harvested rainwater or stormwater with the unusual feature of allowing use of that stored water in landscape features, such as…

W-D FSC-Certified Wood Flooring —


W-D Flooring offers 11 species of unfinished hardwood flooring from its 40,000 acres of forest in Wisconsin and Michigan, including ash, beech, birch, cherry, hickory, maple, oak, and walnut. All…

Original Rainwater Pillow —


The Original Rainwater Pillow is a fabric rainwater storage cistern for irrigation, toilet flushing, and other non-potable uses. Made of a polyester scrim coated on both sides with PVC, the pillows…

Proglaze Engineered Transition Assembly —


Tremco's Proglaze Engineered Transition Assembly (ETA) is a complete system comprised of sealants, membranes, primers, and flashings (all its own products) and insulation and sheathings (from other…

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Easy Access to LEED Online Forms

LEEDuser has added another essential tool you've been asking for: sample LEED Online forms. Through a special arrangement with USGBC, LEEDuser has integrated these sample forms into the member toolkit we provide.
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What does LEED certification cost, credit by credit? "The Cost of LEED" report breaks it down

Looking for LEED documentation? LEEDuser's Documentation Toolkits offer credit-by-credit samples and templates

LEEDuser Forum

RE: Option 2
in NC 2009 WEc1: Water Efficient Landscaping
Saturday, 8:28 PM

RE: Multiple Building (GROUP?) Project on Military Base
in New LEED Guidance for Campuses and Multiple Buildings
Friday, 8:27 PM

RE: LEED Project Boundary Changes
in Site Boundary
Friday, 6:25 PM

EQ 3.2 Option 1 Flush-Out not continuous at 60%RH
in NC v2.2 EQc3.2: Construction Indoor Air Quality Management Plan—Before Occupancy
Friday, 5:41 PM

RE: EAp2 link to EAc1 in a v2.2 campus application
in NC v2.2 EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
Friday, 5:00 PM

Can I use CONTROL as an energy saving strategy??
in CS 2009 EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
Friday, 4:07 PM

Athletic Center
in NC v2.2 EQc6.1: Controllability of Systems—Lighting
Friday, 1:38 PM

RE: IEQ 4.3 form and the VOC budget method
in NC 2009 IEQc4.3: Low-Emitting Materials—Flooring Systems
Friday, 1:12 PM

RE: Floodlight
in NC 2009 EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
Friday, 12:57 PM

RE: Pavement Markings for Designating Preffered Parking
in NC 2009 SSc4.3: Alternative Transportation—Low-Emitting and Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
Friday, 12:14 PM

LEEDuser Webcast: Top-20 LEED-EBOM Documentation Mistakes--And How to Avoid Them

Free Webcast Top-20 LEED-EBOM Documentation Mistakes--And How to Avoid Them Wed. April 25 | 2 p.m. Eastern Time Getting LEED-EBOM certification is all about documentation: At a lot of documentation. It's a lot of work, and yet--there are so many pitfalls, unknowns, and blind alleys that it's common for LEED review comments to hang projects up with tons of issues. Such problems are a…

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Biobased Materials: Not Always Greener

Biobased Materials: Not Always Greener

We tend to think of biobased materials as inherently greener—but even “natural” and “rapidly renewable” materials can carry big environmental impacts.

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“Manufacturers tended to be very optimistic about energy production numbers in order to compete.”
— Larry Sherwood of SWCC on the wind turbine field prior to the availability of certification

From Certification Gets Small Wind Turbine Market Turning

The Story of BuildingGreen

The BuildingGreen office today. This historic building that once housed the drafting and tuning rooms of the Estey Organ Company, has unique slate-shingle siding. Photo: Alex Wilson. Click on image to enlarge. Reflections on the founding of BuildingGreen and our evolution as a company. Last week, I reflected on Earth Day and how concern for the environment inspired me in school and then led to…

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