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Environmental Building News
Volume 12, Number 2 — February 2003

Feature

Future-Proofing Your Building: Designing for Flexibility and Adaptive Reuse

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How can we increase the odds that the buildings we design today will survive and be useful generations from now? This article makes a case for building reuse and explores how to design adaptability into new buildings with examples and a checklist of strategies to consider.

From the Editors

New Staff
BuildingGreen welcomes Jim Newman to our staff as Director of Online Services.

Newsletter Design Award
Environmental Building News is honored by an award from The Newsletter on Newsletters.

What's Happening

Report Bespeaks an “Air of Injustice”
A new report explains how African Americans carry disproportionately high health burdens from coal-fired power-plant pollution.

Southern California Completes Grading Period
UCLA has released its annual report card, ranking Southern California in a number of environmental areas. Sustainable building was among the "subjects" graded this year.

California DGS Database
Columbia Shuttle Halon Experiment

Newsbriefs

Muscoe Martin Moves to WRT

NYSERDA $1,000,000
Canadian Green Architecture Meeting
Pataki Backs Renewable Energy

Awards & Competitions

World Architecture Building of the Year
Nelson Receives ASLA Olmstead Medal
AIA Top Ten Solicitation

 

Product Review

A Third Non-Water-Using Urinal: McDry from Duravit

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Duravit's McDry has a permanent ceramic trap that does not require periodic replacement.

American Pride--Paint Made from Vegetable Oil
American Pride's durable, zero-VOC latex paints-being used on the Pentagon reconstruction-are made using solvents derived vegetable oil.

Product News

LEES Improves Unibond(R) Backing System
LEES Carpets' new Geologic and Modern Collections use a backing system that contains 20% post-consumer recycled content.

From the Library

The Adaptable House: Designing Homes for Change
Avi Friedman's new book explores the history and future of flexible housing.

The Restoration Economy: The Greatest New Growth Frontier
This book by Storm Cunningham outlines how industries that focus on restoration will be the major economic growth areas of the 21st century.

The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling
This new book by Daniel Chiras, explores residential passive-solar design in detail, addressing common techniques as well as common stumbling blocks.

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