In what may be one of the most significant developments in green building in recent years, the Department of the Navy has become the first Federal agency requiring all facilities and infrastructure-related design and construction to incorporate sustainable design principles. While energy efficiency and... Read more

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Dru Meadows has left her position as leader of the Green Team at BSW Architects. In that capacity she worked on the design of several high-profile eco-stores for Wal-Mart. Meadows has also been a leader in efforts to have green building practices recognized appropriately by standards organizations such as the... Read more

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EBN have been working over the past year on an exciting new computer program that provides suggestions for improving the environmental performance of buildings, and case studies to illustrate the results. The

Green Building Advisor prompts the user for some basic information about a... Read more

Per Square Metre of Floor Area

This chart from a paper by Roger Baldwin of the British Research Establishment in the U.K. shows overall energy use associated with two actual office buildings, one in a... Read more

Our news story in

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Vol. 7, No. 9 (October 1998) on Oakes Hall at the Vermont Law School incorrectly stated the estimated cooling load benefits of the enthalpy wheel. While the article described a two-ton reduction in peak cooling load from the enthalpy wheel, engineer Marc Rosenbaum estimates the actual peak load... Read more

The

Rocky Mountain Institute is seeking a consultant to join its influential Green Development Services research group. The position requires extensive client interaction, management of multiple projects, and travel. Contact Jen Uncapher at 970/927-3807 or jenu@rmi.org for details.

Brave New World option.

This new resilient flooring product from the U.K. uses high-tech engineering polymer resins to provide a durable surface and sophisticated patterns similar to... Read more

While a number of studies in recent years have downplayed concerns about electromagnetic fields (EMF)—including a report from the American Physical Society (see

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Vol. 4, No. 4)—a working group of experts assembled by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) concluded in... Read more

The U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) rating system for buildings, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), is not yet officially released but is already making waves. LEED was developed through a consensus process among the diverse USGBC membership, which includes product manufacturers, architects, environmental and government... Read more

by Baruch Givoni, 1998. John Wiley & Sons, New York. Hardcover, 496 pages, $64.95

Baruch Givoni has long been a champion of passive approaches to climate control in buildings. In Climate Considerations in Building and Urban Design he documents the theory and practice of low-tech comfort in buildings and the relationships... Read more

by Janet Marinelli, 1998. Henry Holt & Company. Hardcover, 230 pages, $25.

After years of fighting linoleum as a competitor to its vinyl flooring products, Armstrong World Industries, Inc. has now purchased DLW Aktien-gesellschaft of Germany, the world’s second largest linoleum manufacturer. Publicly, Armstrong is playing up other DLW assets, including a strong distribution network... Read more

—one in Austin, the other in McKinney (north of Dallas). Grant funding from the State Energy Conservation Office of the General Services Commission is providing sustainability teams to work with the architects and engineers. The Austin sustainability team is led by Bob Berkebile of BNIM... Read more

Much of the published information on the energy performance of straw-bale buildings is based on measurements done in 1993 by Joseph McCabe at the University of Arizona as part of his master’s thesis. McCabe used a “guarded-hot-plate” apparatus (procedure ASTM C-177-85) to measure heat flow... Read more

The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) recently announced the 1998 winners of its

biannual

Champion of Energy Efficiency Awards:

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Marilyn Brown, Eric Petersen, and Joseph Romm, for their leadership in influencing U.S. climate change policy and other contributions to... Read more

The Whirlpool Resource Saver™ is the first Energy Star washer with a conventional

vertical-axis configuration; all... Read more

The Energy Outreach Center, a nonprofit organization based in Washington State, has established an Internet-based building materials exchange system that is available for use by local governments anywhere. The Reusable Building Materials Exchange operates as a bulletin board where users... Read more

Published on CD-ROM by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, 1001 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 801, Washington, DC 20036; 202/429-8873, 202/429-2248 (fax), aceee@ix.netcom.com (e-mail),

www.aceee.org (Web site). $100, plus $5 shipping and handling.

Like ACEEE’s previous CD-ROM of Summer Study proceedings, which... Read more

Eminent green architect

William McDonough announced in late August that he will not seek reappointment as dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture when his five-year term expires next June. McDonough will continue to teach at the University, and to direct the Institute for Sustainable Design, which he... Read more

EBN last covered torchiere-style standing lamps with energy-saving compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) instead of halogen lamps, we tested two very different products (

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Vol. 6, No. 10).

One used three 26-watt CFLs (each with its own ballast), providing three light... Read more