The oldest building in the complex dates from 1902, with a major... Read more

November 2003 supplement to Building Design & Construction (BD&C) magazine

Available as a free download from

www.bdcmag.com.

Released at Greenbuild 2003, the “White Paper on Sustainability” is notable for two reasons. First, it provides a very useful overview of the green building movement, including its history,... Read more

It’s impossible to do justice to the breadth of what took place at Greenbuild in a short article, but here is a sampling of what

EBN’s editors and colleagues whom we queried took in.

Ten simultaneous educational sessions in seven time slots, along with poster presentations in the lobby, made up the core of the conference. There... Read more

Just in time to host Greenbuild 2003, the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh was awarded 39 points in the LEED® Rating System, qualifying it for Gold certification. At nearly 1.5 million ft2 (140,000 m2), the Lawrence Center is the largest LEED-certified building. The $385 million... Read more

Vol. 12, No. 11), we ran a product review of straw-particleboard casework from Case Systems, Inc. of Midland, Michigan. At Greenbuild, we learned of a similar ag-fiber casework product that has been around even longer.

LSI Corporation of America, based in Minneapolis, introduced an option for ag-fiber-based... Read more

Ten years ago, in

EBN

Vol. 2, No. 6, we devoted precisely two sentences to alerting our readers that the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Green Building Council were planning a Green Building Conference, to take place in Gaithersburg, Maryland in February 1994. “The conference will cover assessment... Read more

In late September,

Haworth, Inc. and

Interface, Inc. closed a deal transferring the assets of Interface Architectural Resources (InterfaceAR) to Haworth. The acquisition, which includes certain inventory, real estate, fixed assets, and intellectual property of InterfaceAR, gives Haworth the most complete line of raised access... Read more

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In an effort to walk the talk of sustainability, the U.S. Green Building Council sought to green the Greenbuild conference itself. Holding the event in a LEED Gold-rated conference center was a great first step.

In addition, conference programs, name-badge holders, and cloth bags were made of recycled materials. Hotels were asked to... Read more

EBN

Vol. 12, No. 10) has a new name:

The Invironmentalists™. According to the company, the new name “reflects the growing responsibility we are taking for the care of our clients’ interior environments beyond products and... Read more

Voters in 16 states said yes to 64 conservation-related ballot measures in November, approving $1.2 billion in new public money for parks and open space. This represents an 83% success rate, despite the fact that most of the measures represented property-tax increases or general obligation bonds. More information on the votes, including a... Read more

A new report from Oceana, “Toxic Burden: PCBs in Marine Life,” compiles information from 40 studies relating to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in humans and marine animals. Over 1.5 billion pounds (680 million kg) of PCBs were produced in the U.S. for industrial and commercial applications, most notably in electrical, heat-transfer, and... Read more

Kevin Hydes, president of Keen Engineering and USGBC board member, is moving from the West Coast to Montreal, Quebec, where Keen is opening a new office this month. While operating from Keen’s new Montreal office, Hydes plans to further his involvement in the Canadian government’s greenhouse action plan as Canada moves to meet its Kyoto... Read more

The National Energy Affordability and Accessibility Project (NEAAP) has developed a Web site that explains the impacts of energy restructuring and market changes on households with low and moderate incomes. It features state-by-state overviews on the status of restructuring, news and analysis on consumer-related restructuring activity, consumer... Read more

California’s former Governor Davis signed the bill AB 1685 in October, extending the California Public Utilities Commission’s Self-Generation Incentive Program for an additional four years. The bill allocates roughly $500 million through 2008 for businesses and local governments to install distributed electricity-generation systems. Over the... Read more

The Council also announced a new fellowship at Greenbuild, named in honor of Mark Ginsberg, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Building Technologies State and Community Programs. In recognition of Ginsberg’s lifetime contribution to green building, the fellowship will allow one intern to work at USGBC in... Read more

EPA announced in early November that it will drop investigations into 50 power plants accused of violating the Clean Air Act. Under the new policy, EPA will pursue only those investigations in which the plants are accused of violating new, more lenient standards set to take effect in December (see EBN Vol. 12, No. 10). The change could also... Read more