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We're hiring: Join our dynamic team as a Sustainablity Coordinator at Structure Tone Southwest!
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Posting is listed for Dallas, but we're open to Austin, Houston, and San Antonio.
Are you passionate about sustainable building practices and wellness in the built environment? Join our team at Structure Tone Southwest... Read more
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Hello Sustainable MEP Leaders!
Over the weekend BuildingGreen received an inquiry about connecting with this peer network regarding a project. Please review David Cohan's email below to see if it is something of interest for this group.
We would invite you to reach out directly to David Cohan and let us here at BuildingGreen know... Read more
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Hi all. Not to poach from your awesome firms, but FXCollaborative is hiring a Sustainable Design Specialist. Here is the job posting:
Sustainable Design Specialist - FXCollaborative, Brooklyn, NY, US
Please send any great candidates my way!
Thanks,
Dan
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I'm looking to draft some one-page briefs for my consulting engineers to outline what we would like to see in their specs regarding certain materials and systems. For example, letting the plumbing and civil engineers know that we prefer to eliminate PVC pipe and want them to specify alternatives like Polypropylene, cast iron, ABS, etc. The idea... Read more
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Hello All,
A group of us (three architects and a builder- sounds like there should be a joke here) were debating this and we are stumped.
Application: Residential exterior trim.
50 year warrantied composite product of agricultural byproduct with PVC (EPD not published yet) vs 100 year (if primed on all sides and painted or... Read more
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I read a very misleading article on the AIA's website today regarding antimicrobials and the benefit of microbicidals in paint. It was written by a manufacturer, not a healthcare professional, and was not obviously labeled as sponsored content on the website. (I received the link in an email, which did label it as such).
https://www.aia.... Read more
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Testing web-to-lead to existing contact in Salesforce.
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The AIA is NOT announcing the COTE Top Ten award winners this Wednesday. Both the firm and student juries were held last month and winners were chosen. But the AIA is focused on COVID-19 info only now, restricting other communications. That is why the COTE newsletter has disappeared from your mailboxes.
Maybe i am the only one who... Read more
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I opened IE11 (Internet Explorer 11) today, and saw a message indicating IE11 will be retired June 15th, 2022. While I have no personal attachment to IE11, it was the only internet browser I could consistantly get to open LEED Online credit templates on the actual website.
Has anyone found another way to be able to fill out LEED credit... Read more
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Welcome to the quiz portion of LEED 2009: The Missing Manual.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
1. Stay abreast of changes to LEED NC-2009.
2. Understand the more ambiguous aspects of LEED NC-2009.
3. Explain key interpretations of LEED NC-2009.
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Hi all,
Here's a good follow up to Maria's steel question on Monday. We have a Midwest project that unfortunately (from a carbon perspective) is required to use a traditional, thick precast facade. We’re working with the contractor and potential future (not yet bid out) fabricators to determine an appropriate % of pozzolanic material... Read more
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Has anyone here found an alternative to XPS for the void former?
A structural engineering contact was included in recent conversations about embodied carbon in insulation materials and brought to our attention that this is a common use for XPS that has nothing to do with its insulating properties. It is typically used where concrete is... Read more
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I was wondering if any design or contractor friend here can kindly share the carbon emission factor of excavation during construction.
I found a paper that provides energy use rate per cubic meter and associated carbon emission in kgCO2 for different phase of construction such as excavation earth work, pouring and lifting concrete,... Read more
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Hi, we need 3-4 folks to volunteer to join us to work out a draft Materials section for the Contractors Commitment. Meeting set for 6/16 @ 2 PM CST.
Please message me at pslloyd@leopardo.com if interested in participating. I will forward out the meeting invite. If the time doesn't work, but you want to participate, I will share info in... Read more
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Has anyone had any success with achieving the LEED Building Envelope commissioning points with an alternative compliance path using the requirements of the PHIUS verifier? It seems like an unnecessary duplication to ask the client to pay for a BECx agent and a Passive House verifier. Or am I missing something? I can't find any LEED... Read more
