Glassmaking in America has been in decline for at least a decade as manufacturers have moved production to China and other emerging economies. But can the green-buildings movement spark a revival? Makers of a new class of energy-efficient “dynamic” windows are establishing factories in the United States. Helping to drive this growth spurt is a…
Demand for “green building materials” will average 13 percent annual growth through 2015, according to a study by the Freedonia Group. A briefing paper on the study offers up some choice highlights: • The overall demand for U.S. green building materials is projected to rise from $39 billion in 2010 to $70 billion in 2015….
Green Building Chronicle member Neal Smith, of Helios South, cuts through some of the hyperbole about the upcoming ban on incandescent lightbulbs with a thoroughly reasonable take on the shift from traditional bulbs to compact fluorescents and other innovations. Basically, Neal channels Thomas Edison: Edison had a profoundly practical view of the way science works….
A Georgia Tech research team has completed what may be the most exhaustive study yet on a potentially big ticket item in commercial construction: sustainable hospital flooring. The researchers received 600 survey responses and examined six hospitals that had installed sustainable, resilient flooring. “We were able to create some guidelines for ensuring proper selection and…
The Obama White House has transformed the federal government’s role in sustainable real estate, a key General Services Administration told Bisnow Atlanta‘s Sustainability Summit yesterday. “There’s been a big turnaround in the GSA in this administration in that we’ve been given a lead role” to push for green practices both in the real estate industry…
I didn’t get to go to Greenbuild 2010 a couple of weeks ago in Chicago. Maybe you didn’t either. Well, at least, our friends Walter Brown and Jodi Mansbach — both VPs over at Green Street Properties — brought back their list of “Top 10 Great New Products or Concepts We Encountered at Greenbuild 2010.”…
Here’s a sobering observation about BuildingGreen’s just released list of “2010 Top-10 Green Products”: None of them come from the Southeast and only half are made by U.S. companies. The list, which is culled each year by BuildingGreen’s ongoing product research, was released yesterday at the 2010 Greenbuild conference in Chicago. It includes some pretty…
Kimberly-Clark will be able to announce early next year that 100 percent its wood fiber comes from certified sustainable sources, a leader of environmental efforts at the paper products company told a group of Atlanta architects today. Kimberly-Clark, which is based in Texas and has a large regional office in Roswell, Ga., is the country’s largest…
