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So nice when nice happens to nice people. And smart ones too! Congrats to Sarah Gudeman, Blake Stanton, Stanton Stafford, Kathy Wardle, and everyone else in this year's class.
https://www.gbci.org/green-business-certification-inc-celebrates-2021-cl...
Quiz
Welcome to the quiz portion of Pest Prevention: Steps Designers Can Take!
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
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Hello All! My firm is looking to hire a sustainability coordinator to help advance our sustainable initiatives at our firm. This will be a new position for our firm. Does anyone have a job description, roles/responsibilties, and task list that they would be willing to share with me? Or if you serve in this role at your firm, I'd love to chat... Read more
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We considering PV glazing for a project in SW Louisiana. Anyone have any successful PV glazing projects? Is this ready for primetime?
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If yes, take a look at Tour: TM10: Transit Oriented Development: Chicago Style
https://explore.greenbuildexpo.com/Attendee/Schedule/SessionDetails/256599
It is not full yet, so there is still time to sign up. Susan King, Sustainability Leader for HED will be showing one of her projects as part of the tour: Lake Street Studios. ... Read more
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Hey everyone,
This is a quick note to say I am retiring at the end of this month and will be taking a hiatus from the SDL group. I will no longer be practicing architecture, but I will remain active in efforts to preserve the wonders of this world for future generations.
To all my SDL sisters and brothers (I don't always sound... Read more
Product Guide
Interior luminaires often use inefficient, outdated technology such as compact fluorescent or halogen lamps, some of which contain mercury and have poor light quality and limited controls.
BuildingGreen-Approved Lighting
BuildingGreen lists lighting products using LEDs (light-emitting diodes) from manufacturers whose luminaires... Read more
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Greetings Sustainable Construction Leaders,
As we begin closing out 2021, we wanted to give you a quick update that the next SCL Salary Survey will be coming to you in early January! The BuildingGreen team and SCL Steering Group have been busy this past month polishing up the questions for this anonymous survey.
A reminder of the... Read more
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Hi friends,
As you might have seen from my op ed last week on BuildingGreen.com, I’m convinced that just voting is not enough; we all need to do all we can to improve our chances of success in this election. My wife Janice and I have been writing get-out-the-vote letters using Vote Forward as our platform. I thought it might be fun, and... Read more
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Hi all, it's time to schedule our next session. Who's in? Ping me at amt@vmdo.com if you want to be considered part of the working group, and fill out your availability on this Doodle poll.
If you just want to monitor what's going on, we'll post updates to the Working Group page.
The agenda for this call is to figure out what we... Read more
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The deadline for submitting presentations is coming up. This year ASHRAE is hosting a joint conference with Simbuild. We are just about to send out an extension announcement (It is now Feb 9th) , so there is still time to get an abstract for a presentation.
Possible ideas for topics:
Daylight - new metrics and... Read more
Peer Network Event
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Dear SD Leaders,
A friend is looking for a High Performance and Sustainability Leader to join their mid-size architecture company in New York.
If you know anyone that could be interested in this position could you please kindly send them my way?
Thank you
Marzia
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Hey there hive mind,
I'm hoping y'all can help me as I coach one of my colleagues along his path to develop into whoever he's supposed to be when he grows up. He's interested in focusing on the analysis and innovation side of sustainability and I honestly don't know where to send him for networking with other like-minded people beyond my... Read more
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Keeping these meeting invites here on the SDL pages as we hope to continue to offer participation to SDL members. The invite follows:
Welcome to the Climate Smart Wood Group monthly peer network meeting. For agenda item suggestions and other meeting organization items please contact Patrick Donnelly at pdonnelly@integrusarch.com or... Read more
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Anyone have experience with electric boilers? I think in cold climates it's perhaps the first thought when trying to reduce scope 1 emissions in an HVAC application that would have historically used gas-fired boilers... but it seems like they're only an incremental improvement compared to heat pumps / geothermal / VRF type solutions. We haven't... Read more