Green-Think. Fedrizzi will continue to work as a consultant for Carrier’s parent company, United Technologies Corporation, on a variety of product... Read more

EBN has often touched on building regulation, but we’ve never done a feature article on building codes. Given the influence of building codes on the environmental performance of building, the topic is overdue. For this month’s feature, we team up with long-time

EBN friend and supporter, David Eisenberg, who recently... Read more

by Paladino Consulting, June 2001. U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), 1015 18th Street, NW, Suite 805, Washington, DC 20036; 202/828-7422, www.usgbc.org. Paperback and downloadable PDF files, 288 pages, currently available only as part of the LEED Reference Package: $400, $250 for USGBC members, $200 for LEED workshop participants.

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Shallow frost-protected foundation, straw-bale walls, composting toilet, graywater system, rainwater harvesting . . . An impressive array of green building features! From the foundation to the roof, these are exemplary systems and materials. But there is another commonality to these features: each represents a potential—if not likely—regulatory... Read more

According to the most recent EPA estimates, there are about 60 million gas-powered lawn mowers in operation in the U.S.—40 million push mowers and 20 million riding tractors. These small spark-ignition engines generate 2.5% of total national summertime hydrocarbon and nitrous oxide pollution. Is there a reasonable alternative?

edited by Alex Wilson. U.S. Department of Energy, May 2001. Paperback and/or downloadable PDF file, 200 pages, free. Order from

www.eren.doe.gov/femp/ordermaterials.html or by calling 800/363-3732; or download from

www.eren.doe.gov/femp/techassist/green_fed_facilities.html.

At the recent Affordable Comfort Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) indoor air quality presentation delivered some surprising new information on building material emissions, ventilation rates, and the impacts of occupant activities. While quite a bit of information has been gathered on building... Read more

a survey to assess the regulatory barriers to more sustainable building and development.... Read more

To our great disappointment, senior editor Peter Yost, who joined our company in April of last year, has decided that spending his days ferreting out information and writing articles for

EBN is not the life for him. He wants to be working more directly with companies and builder programs that are leading the charge with green building... Read more

The fifth Annual

U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Environmental Awards ceremony took place in Washington, D.C. on April 19, 2001. Among the 14 winning projects and initiatives were:

The

Architecture + Energy: Building Excellence in Sustainable Design 2001 Awards were announced in July. This year the program was open to projects from outside the Pacific Northwest for the first time, and jurors noted that the entries were the best they had seen in a competition. The four winners were:

Pentstar Corporation of Minneapolis, Minnesota has developed a new building system based on their patented Concrete Form Masonry Unit (CFMU). Think of the system as a hybrid of masonry block and cast-in-place concrete construction. Recycled-content plastic webs connect inner and outer finished masonry faces and an inner layer of 2” (50 mm)... Read more

Several different federal tax credit bills are currently being considered in the U.S. Congress. The intent of all of these bills is to spur energy conservation measures in buildings, but the bills do this in very different ways, some of which could prove harmful to the industry and wasteful of taxpayer money.

by Jonee Kulman, AIA and Joel Schurke, March 2001. National Council of Archi-tectural Registration Boards (NCARB), 1801 K Street, NW, Suite 1100K, Wash-ington, DC 20006; 202/783-6500,

www.ncarb.org. Paperback, 150 pages, $195 ($125 with NCARB certificate).

Nice job on the mold article (

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Vol. 10, No. 6 – June 2001). I do have a question on the checklist for minimizing mold risk that perhaps has more to do with the difficulties in using checklists as well as life-cycle assessment (LCA) approaches. Under the building operation section, one of the points is “avoid surrounding... Read more

On July 3, the City of Boulder, Colorado passed an ordinance

expanding the requirements of its mandatory Green Points program (see

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Vol. 7, No. 3) to include remodels and additions over 500 ft2 (50 m2), and increasing the number of points required for new homes. The revised program, which places a greater emphasis on... Read more

On June 11, Governor George Pataki signed an executive order that has the potential to make New York State facilities among the greenest in the country over the next decade. Executive Order No. 111, “Green and Clean State Buildings and Vehicles,” affects buildings owned, leased, or operated by state agencies. Its requirements include reducing... Read more

Advisory Board member

Sandra Mendler, AIA, received the

First Annual Sustainable Design Leadership Award for a design professional at a June 18 event in Dalton, Georgia. This award recognizes commitment to environmental issues through design, educational outreach, or other efforts. Mendler is Vice President and Director of... Read more