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ASHRAE 189.1: A Higher Standard for High-Performance Green Buildings, Pt. 1

In the quest to build more sustainably, organizations have set forth a variety of standards to realize high-performance green buildings.




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ASHRAE 189.1: A Higher Standard for High-Performance Green Buildings, Pt. 2

To realize high-performance green buildings, the place to start is improving HVAC – centering on ventilation/efficiency.




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Green buildings: researchers call for fuller environmental assessment

Over half of a low-energy building’s environmental impact occurred before it was even occupied, a new case study from Italy calculates. The researchers recommend expanding the environmental assessment of buildings from just the operational stage of a building’s life, when it is in use, to include production and transport of materials, construction activities and building maintenance. A wide range of environmental impacts should also be considered, they argue, and not just energy use.




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Weekend reads: Green jobs and green buildings

Recession proof green jobs, $7 million in energy efficiency savings and more.




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Green buildings are crucial to addressing climate change, but why aren’t we seeing more of them?

We spoke with industry experts to identify what’s preventing developers from fully going green – and it all boils down to lack of finances.




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Green roofs, living walls and vertical farms are all morphing into living green buildings

We are going to need a new term that binds them all together. A lecture in 20 slides.




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Green Buildings Projects

Green Buildings Projects




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Green Buildings

Green Buildings




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Green Buildings and Sustainable Engineering: Proceedings of GBSE 2019 / edited by Harald Drück, Jyotirmay Mathur, Varghese Panthalookaran, V. M. Sreekumar

Online Resource




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India 3rd on list of ‘green buildings’ countries outside US



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