Sealing the Envelope
- Outlook & Trends, Sustainability
- July 28, 2020
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Remixing Cement0
- Outlook & Trends, Sustainability
- May 22, 2023
The cement industry is a top source of CO2 emissions, but abatement pressures could prompt efforts to reimagine the business. As the second-most-consumed product globally (after potable water), it is used in almost everything we build – from our homes and cityscapes to dikes and dams. And contributes about a quarter of all industry CO₂
READ MOREA Little Construction Waste Hocus Pocus0
- Best Practices, Outlook & Trends, Sustainability
- February 21, 2022
By Damon Carson, Repurposed Materials, Inc. If you’ve watched the trucks hauling debris away from a construction site, you have some idea how much construction and demolition (C&D) debris is produced. But you might not have considered just how immense the quantity of debris produced on a nationwide scale. The EPA estimates that 230 to
READ MORE2021 – The Year of (Insert Pleasant Adjective Here)0
- Best Practices, Improving Productivity, Leadership, Life, Outlook & Trends, Sustainability
- January 25, 2021
Creating a sense of excitement and optimism for the New Year in the Built World By Gregg Schoppman, FMI Well, here we are. It is probably premature to look at 2021 and simply say “Well, it certainly can’t be as bad as 2020, right?!” There is no shortage of natural disasters, diseases, world shattering events,
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Sealing the Envelope0
- Outlook & Trends, Sustainability
- July 28, 2020
How building envelope materials and methods play a part in achieving net-zero certification by George Klett, Development Project Manager in Los Angeles, CA At Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, as students enter through glass vestibules, they are not entering a run-of-the-mill elementary school. Instead they are walking into the largest net-zero certified building in
READ MOREAn Easy First Step to More Sustainable Buildings: Bird Safe and Energy Conserving Standards0
- Outlook & Trends, Sustainability, TECHNOLOGY
- July 28, 2020
by Mark Southerland, Ph.D., TetraTech, Inc. and Safe Skies Maryland The Edith Green / Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland. Photo courtesy of M.O. Stevens The Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, one of the country’s busiest, was expanded in 2016 to accommodate more than 2 million annual attendees. At the same time,
READ MORENew open-access CO2 tracking tool helps cut carbon emissions during building process0
- Best Practices, Documentation, Outlook & Trends, Sustainability, TECHNOLOGY
- July 28, 2020
Originally published in Construction Climate Challenge on March 26, 2020 It is becoming easier to track the carbon footprint of building materials through a range of new initiatives. This includes a new cloud-based tool backed by a group of high-profile companies and NGO’s, which is making that information free and available to everyone. Research funded
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Sealing the Envelope
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