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Featured Events
 
National Apartment Association Green Conference & Exposition
  Phoenix, AZ
  April 28-29

Multifamily owners and developers can focus on improving profits while greening their properties.
 
AIA National Convention
  April 29 - May 2
  San Francisco, CA

Visit BuildingGreen at booth #3960, and at the "Sustaining the Existing Building Stock" and "Building and Managing a Green Practice" sessions.
 
Events Calendar
 
  Pittsburgh, PA
  April 19-21
 
ACI Home Performance Conference 2009
  Kansas City, MO
  April 27 - May 1  


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April 2009

New product listings in the GreenSpec Directory are available online.


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Featured New GreenSpec Listing
 
Alphaton and Longoton double-leaf, hollow exterior panels are installed using clips and aluminum horizontal mounting systems that create a vented rainscreen and allow for easy installation and replacement.  

 

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GreenSource Magazine
The April 2009 GreenSource is out! Check out Van Jones, Elizabeth Kolbert, and the Living Building Challenge in our columns, plus these features:
  • Making Sense of Green Product Certifications
  • Biophilia in Architecture
  • LEED Platinum at National Audubon Society
  • Products roundup 
Read more at GreenSource.

Editorial content for GreenSource is a collaboration of BuildingGreen with McGraw-Hill Construction.



 
Case Study Highlight
At this office, operable windows are oriented to encourage cross-ventilation and capture prevailing breezes, while louvers open and close to maintain temperature and optimum CO2 levels and to enable night flushing. The Terry Thomas was recently given an AIA Top Ten Green Projects award.
 

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