Sustainable Materials
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Sustainable Materials
Deep Dives
Get up to speed on complex topics. You can also earn CEUs and download PDF Spotlight Reports.
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What Makes the Building Envelope Green? BuildingGreen’s Guide to Thermal & Moisture Protection Products
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From insulation to flashing tape to cladding, we look at the attributes of the greenest building envelope products.
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A Guide to Selecting Sustainable Textiles
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Textiles’ good looks hide an ugly environmental legacy, but there are five straightforward ways to make responsible design choices.
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The Great Eight: High-Impact Material Choices for Green Building
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We’re at a tipping point in insulation, flooring, textiles, and other product categories. Here’s what to spec and what to avoid.
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Protect Your Spec: 14 Strategies
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You’ve selected the ideal materials for your project: now get them into the building.
Quick Takes
Jump straight to the essentials with these short explanations of green building concepts.
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Product Guidance
Unbiased information from our product experts helps you separate green from greenwash.
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Innovation in Urinals from Caroma
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Caroma has introduced two new urinals, one with a pint-sized, fluid-sensing flush mechanism and the other a waterless unit with a diaphragm rather than a trap.
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LED Downlight from LLF-Most Efficient on the Market
Product Review
A new LED downlight module from LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc., offers high efficacy and good light quality using a unique way of producing a diffuse, white light.
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BuildingGreen Announces 2007 Top-10 Products
Product Review
BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of the GreenSpec Directory and Environmental Building News (EBN), announced its annual Top-10 Green Building Products, representing the most exciting products covered in those publications in the last year.
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Migrations Biobased Tile from Armstrong
Product Review
A new biobased composition tile from Armstrong offers a more attractive alternative to popular vinyl composition tile.
In The News
We break news down to the essentials and provide expert analysis.
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New Standard Showcases Efficiency of VRF Multi-Splits
News Analysis
The Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) recently created a standard that evaluates the efficiency of variable refrigerant flow (VRF) multi-split heating and cooling systems. AHRI 1230 allows a comparison between VRF multi-splits and unitary HVAC systems that was not possible previously.
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New Company-Wide Certifications for Manufacturers
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Manufacturers will soon have their choice of three green certifications, from Green Seal, UL Environment, and Leonardo Academy.
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Regulators Zero in on HBCD Flame Retardant
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Actions by both the U.S. and Canadian government on the brominated flame retardant HBCD suggest that further regulation of the chemical could lie ahead.
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BuildingGreen Announces 2010 Top-10 Green Products
News Analysis
BuildingGreen announced its ninth annual Top-10 Green Building Products during the 2010 Greenbuild conference in Chicago. The list recognizes the most exciting products drawn from recent additions to GreenSpec, coverage in EBN, and BuildingGreen.com blogs.
Perspective
Thought-provoking opinions from the most trusted minds in sustainability.
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Learning Resources
Syllabus supplements and CEU content, with automatic reporting for AIA and GBCI.
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