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Occupant Engagement: Where Design Meets Performance

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No matter how carefully you plan a retrofit or design a building, the occupants hold the keys to environmental performance. But design teams can help them unlock any building's potential.
What Makes a Product Green Today?

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Lots of manufacturers call their products "green," but are they? Here's our guide to the high-performance attributes that matter.
Getting Flame Retardants Out of Foam Insulation

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In an effort to eliminate the use of halogenated flame retardants, building code changes are being proposed by a group of fire experts, architects, chemists, and environmentalists.
Energy Modeling: Early and Often

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For the biggest energy and cost savings, model early in design and model often, say the experts.

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Johns Manville Invests in TPO Roofing

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Kansas Town Rebuilding as the Greenest in America

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Destroyed by a tornado in May 2007, Greensburg, Kansas, is rebuilding as a green town, with support from FEMA, a green master plan, and local values.
Guidelines in Development for Residential Remodeling

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The Regreen program aims to give residential remodeling designers and contractors, as well as homeowners, an integrated guide to making their projects green.
IPCC Warns of Dire Climate Consequences

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The fourth report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change offers strong warnings, but concludes that the building sector offers the greatest potential for cost-effective carbon emission reductions.

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What I Learned on the Way to Enhancing AIA’s Code of Ethics

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Getting stronger sustainability language into the AIA Code of Ethics wasn’t easy.
Carbon Emissions Are Up, But We Can Get Back on Track

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Carbon emissions rose in a year of natural disasters. Here’s what we can do about it.
The Green New Deal—an Opportunity for the Green Building Industry

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Achieving the goals of the Green New Deal will be tremendously challenging—but not impossible.
Let’s Bounce Forward from the COVID-19 Pandemic

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What lessons can we learn from the coronavirus pandemic that will help us end up in a better place when the crisis is over?

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