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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

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

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

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

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

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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

Ten years ago, in

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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

The Portland Cement Association (PCA) announced at Greenbuild the proposed allowance of up to 5% ground limestone in the portland cement standard ASTM C150, a change that would bring U.S. standards in line with those in Europe and Canada, where limestone has been used successfully for decades. If approved, the standards will allow a reduction... Read more

EPA unveiled at Greenbuild a plan for greening landscaping by using biobased, recycled-content, and otherwise environmentally preferable products, and named USGBC as a Charter Ally in the initiative. The GreenScapes Alliance aims to combine the influence of government and industry to green large-scale landscaping efforts, such as roadside... Read more

One closely watched election disappointed smart-growth advocates across the country. Loudoun County, Virginia, a national model of environmentally friendly urban planning (see EBN Vol. 9, No. 3, p. 5), voted in November to replace six of its eight left-leaning county board members with Republicans. The newly elected board members have vocally... Read more

In presenting their second annual Leadership Awards during Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council recognized five companies and individuals “who signify the vision, leadership, and commitment to the evolution of green building design and construction”:

• Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. received the Green Building Business Award for... Read more

The world’s largest photovoltaic acoustic highway barrier was inaugurated in October in Munich, Germany. Stretching over one kilometer (0.6 miles) along the A92 freeway, the barrier produces 500 peak kW of solar electricity while protecting the nearby Freisinger commercial zone from traffic noise.

“Action for Sustainability,” the

2005 World Sustainable Building Conference following in the footsteps of Sustainable Building 2002 in Oslo, Norway, is set to take place September 27–29, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. The conference will be hosted by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, and co-hosted by the International... 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