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BuildingGreen champions the changemakers in sustainable design and building.

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News Analysis

3 First Steps to Break the Chains of Slavery in the Supply Chain

a tiered staircase with dark wooden panels.
FSC-certified wood in the University of St. Thomas’s Schoenecker Center for STEAM meets the requirements of a LEED pilot credit addressing forced labor. (Photo: Sara Goenner Curlee)

Forced labor and other inhumane practices are embedded in many common building materials. The building industry can’t solve this alone, but we can still take action.


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News Analysis

Amid a Silicosis Surge, We Need to Rethink Countertops

A construction worker stands with his back to the camera, a hammer drill resting on a concrete column, clouded in dust without personal protective equipment.
Compared with the dust from concrete and most natural stone, dust from engineered stone seems to pose a heightened risk of silicosis. (Photo: Lamiot. License: CC BY-SA 4.0.)

Engineered stone countertops may be causing a spike in lung disease, with cases seemingly tied to the material’s unique properties. Find out what design and construction teams should do—and why.


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Product Guide

Choosing Countertops: Social, Environmental, and Performance Considerations

All countertop material options come with potential environmental and social impacts.

 


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Primer

Building Decarbonization: How LCA and EPDs Fit in

Building Decarbonization: How LCA and EPDs Fit in

Life-cycle assessment and environmental product declarations reveal embodied carbon and other impacts, but it’s important to know their limits.


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Newsbrief

Inflation Reduction Act Collection: Guidance & Case Studies

Colored 100 dollar banknote fragment. (Photo: RL Photography)

The IRA may be revolutionizing green building. Learn how to leverage this generational funding to curtail carbon and elevate equity.


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Feature article + Spotlight Report

Wood: Is It Still Good? Part Two: Moving from Carbon to Climate

Aerial view of a bare trees and a snow-covered forest floor. Barely visible near the center is a small logging excavator.
Timberdoodle Farm uses what Katrina Amaral describes as “a quirky set of woods equipment”—like the barely visible logging excavator here, which is aptly named Kitten. Miles Amaral, Katrina’s spouse and business partner, customizes the machinery to achieve the lowest possible impact. (Photo: Joe Klementovich)

Many people hope mass timber will drive decarbonization—but scaling that up could make things worse. Instead of embodied carbon alone, “climate-smart” practices focus on our increasingly fragile forests.


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