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Rethinking Waste Glass: Turning Yesterday’s Bottles into Tomorrow’s Building Materials0
- Best Practices, CONSTRUCTION, ENVIRONMENT, Sustainability
- June 30, 2026
By Mary Klett, ASA Communications Team ACE Glass Aggregates, also known as ACEFGA, was founded with a clear purpose: to turn waste glass into sustainable building materials while cutting landfill waste and helping build a cleaner future. At the center of that mission is the company’s primary product, ultra-lightweight foamed glass aggregate, or UL-FGA. UL-FGA
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Sustainability Drives Design Decisions, say glass industry exhibitors at AIA260
- Best Practices, Outlook & Trends, Sustainability
- June 30, 2026
By Norah Dick, Glass.org The AIA26 Expo was held in sunny San Diego, June 11-12. The show floor featured around 600 exhibitors, including leading glass and fenestration industry companies. Company reps say that sustainability continues to drive architect interest in building products, while security and protection are also becoming major considerations. Booming sectors like healthcare
READ MORERemixing 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
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A 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,
READ MORESealing 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
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