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Recycled Content: What is it and What is it Worth?
Recycled content is often the most visible -- and touted -- environmental attribute of green building products. Government programs have encouraged the use of recycled-content products to deal with solid-waste concerns, and green-building rating systems reward designers for specifying these products. But divergent definitions cause confusion, and a limited view of environmental performance might be giving recycled content more attention than it deserves.
Environmental Building News—February 1, 2005
Insulation: Thermal Performance is Just the Beginning
Ten years after EBN first covered insulation, Alex Wilson returns to the subject, presenting a survey of insulation materials and addressing their life-cycle implications.
Environmental Building News—January 1, 2005
Integrated Design
Integrated design is essential for delivering a cost-effective green building. Successful practitioners have come up with ways to get the whole team collaborating effectively and thinking outside-the-box. Not only are they delivering green projects within conventional building budgets, but many are doing it for a conventional fee. EBN editor Nadav Malin shares their advice on how to make it work, and make it pay.
Environmental Building News—November 1, 2004
Productivity and Green Buildings
We’re far from understanding the factors that play into productivity, but more and more research is linking green building features with contributors to productivity, like lower absenteeism, increased retail sales, better health, more rapid healing, and even faster learning in schools. This article reviews the evidence and explores what the connection means for the future of design.
Environmental Building News—October 1, 2004
Porous Pavement: A Win-Win Stormwater Strategy
Impervious surfaces and the resulting stormwater runoff are to blame for surface water pollution, flooding, erosion, and low urban tree survival rates. Allowing stormwater to infiltrate the ground through porous pavement can solve these and other environmental problems. This article addresses porous concrete, porous asphalt, various types of porous pavers, and turf-based systems; a table of products is included.
Environmental Building News—September 1, 2004
The Elevator Revolution
Gearless, machine-room-less elevators save space and energy. And, they just might make hydraulic and geared traction elevators extinct. EBN examines the new technologies and compares the offerings from all the major manufacturers.
Environmental Building News—August 1, 2004
Expanding the Engineers’ Comfort Zone: Working with Adaptive Thermal Comfort
Ensuring that a building’s occupants are neither too hot nor too cold is a complex challenge. Thermal comfort is determined not only by temperature, but also by humidity, airspeed, clothing, and activity level—and, we’re learning, by the occupants’ sense of control and connection to the outdoors. This feature article examines thermal comfort and how it is addressed by LEED® and the new ASHRAE Standard 55-2004.
Environmental Building News—July 1, 2004
Flame Retardants Under Fire
Brominated flame retardants are widely used in building products, furnishings, and equipment found in buildings. We now know that brominated flame retardants escape from these products into our homes and the environment—and that they’re building up at alarming rates in our bodies. This article explores flame retardants and provides recommendations for reducing their use.
Environmental Building News—June 1, 2004
Greening Your Firm: Building Sustainable Design Capabilities
EBN talks with green champions at medium-sized and large design firms to learn what works and what doesn’t when firms commit to going green.
Environmental Building News—May 1, 2004
Which Grass is Greener? Comparing Natural and Artificial Turf
The lawn has come to symbolize America even more than apple pie. But a dark side lurks behind the lawn; irrigation, pesticides, fertilizers, and regular mowing have made the typical lawn an environmental disaster. Some see a solution in artificial turf, but could plastic grass really be greener than the real thing?
Environmental Building News—April 1, 2004
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