GreenSpec Directory during the past year. This year’s winners cover a wide spectrum of products and applications, and highlight the ongoing innovation in the building-... Read more

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

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

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

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

Falcon Waterfree Technologies of Grand Rapids, Michigan have announced an alliance that should bring waterfree urinals closer to the mainstream. Falcon will manufacture and supply both vitreous-china waterless-urinal fixtures and replacement cartridges to Sloan, who will bring them to market. “... Read more

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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

A group of institutions, including the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has begun a three-year project to model air quality in the U.S. over the next 50 years. Through the study, funded by the National Science Foundation, EPA, and Forest Service, researchers will examine how air quality will be affected by climate change, wildfires,... Read more

The Emerging Green Builders chapter of the Council hosted the first annual USGBC Design Competition this year. The challenge was to design an 18,000 ft2 (1,675 m2), $2 million addition to the nonprofit Pittsburgh Project. The designs, including classroom space and housing, were required to qualify for a LEED Platinum rating. Over 125 teams of... Read more

Desert Moon Productions has begun filming the first home-improvement show with a green emphasis.  The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) will air 26 episodes of the 30-minute television show, Build it Green! Set to begin running next July.

Build it Green! will be hosted by contractor Charlie Popeck and architect Jill Burtin and will... Read more

In October, Sharp Corporation, the world’s leader in solar energy production, and its U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary, Sharp Electronics Corporation, opened their first solar panel manufacturing facility outside of Japan. The new factory, in Memphis, Tennessee, is assembling 165-, 167-, and 185-watt panels for residential and commercial... Read more

The Green Building Alliance awarded its Shades of Green award during Greenbuild to Teresa Heinz, chair of the Heinz Family Philanthropies and the Howard Heinz Endowment. Support from these two organizations has been instrumental in making Pittsburgh a hub of green building activity, with more LEED-certified buildings than any other city. A... Read more

The Calgary, Alberta company Nysan introduced a PVC-free interior shade-screen product line at the Pittsburgh Greenbuild conference.

Until this product introduction, there were about eight manufacturers of shade-screen systems for commercial buildings, including Nysan, all of which used PVC-coated screening—usually either woven... Read more

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draft study released in November reveals a much higher health risk to children who play on CCA-treated playsets and decks than was previously indicated by the agency (see EBN Vol. 12, No. 3). The report shows that 90% of children aged one to six who regularly play on CCA-treated wood face a greater than... Read more