Design Strategies
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Design Strategies
Deep Dives
Get up to speed on complex topics. You can also earn CEUs and download PDF Spotlight Reports.
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Engineering a Wood Revolution
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Engineered wood products are challenging concrete and steel in structural applications while proffering a lower environmental footprint.
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Green Design: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
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Beauty, place-making, and even love are motivating many green designers, who see these values complementing core sustainability tenets.
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Innovative Products and Technology from the Greenbuild Expo
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Our product editors pick some winners from the expo floor at Greenbuild 2013 while raising questions about some materials.
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The PVC Debate: A Fresh Look
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PVC is banned by some green building programs and simply reviled by some groups. How did we get here, and has anything changed since vinyl became the enemy?
Quick Takes
Jump straight to the essentials with these short explanations of green building concepts.
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Product Guidance
Unbiased information from our product experts helps you separate green from greenwash.
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Photovoltaics and Their Environmental Performance
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Renewable energy systems, particularly photovoltaic (PV) panels, have come under attack for using toxic materials and having a high carbon footprint. The truth is more complicated. -
Acoustic Panels: Cutting through the Product Noise
Product Review
Choosing interior acoustic products that contain fewer potentially hazardous materials will improve the overall interior environmental quality without compromising designs.
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BuildingGreen Announces Top 10 Products for 2024
Product Review
BuildingGreen’s Top 10 industry-transforming products this year include innovative heat-pump energy storage, electric construction equipment, PFAS-free textiles, healthier lighting, PV circularity, and more.
In The News
We break news down to the essentials and provide expert analysis.
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To Become Resilient, NYC Looks to Its Buildings
News Analysis
Resilient design at the building level figures heavily in Mayor Bloomberg's $20 billion plan to protect New York from climate change.
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Small Hydro Projects in China Have Big Impacts
News Analysis
A new study finds small hydropower projects--long touted as a clean development strategy--are cumulatively causing more ecological damage than big dams.
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New Revit Plug-In to "Tally" Building Life-Cycle Impacts
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The new tool aims to help architects with whole-building LCA calculations for LEED v4 right along with their BIM process.
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GSA Shares More "Green Proving Ground" Experience
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With lessons learned from its own buildings, GSA reports conditions under which high-performance window panels, mag-lev compressors, and onsite PV are viable.
Perspective
Thought-provoking opinions from the most trusted minds in sustainability.
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Learning Resources
Syllabus supplements and CEU content, with automatic reporting for AIA and GBCI.
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Just For Fun
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