Tips on Sustainable Green Home Building Design Materials
Tips on Sustainable Green Home Building Design Materials
By David Leonhardt and Corey Rozon
The environment is in the media daily, from the Kyoto Protocol, Global Warming to the icecaps melting. If things don’t change soon, the future looks bleak, if you listen to the experts.
What no one seems to be discussing is the advancements in the construction and industrial sectors, namely the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.
“LEED certification will provide challenges to the industry including the need to ensure an understanding of a new generation of materials properties and developing the practices and processes needed to ensure specifications and finished products meet the standards of green building. I am especially exited to be part of this process and in making a contribution towards shaping new building technologies.” Ken Moscrip, President of Paramount Roll and Forming – one of Southern California’s most prominent metal rolling companies.
Consisting of a clear set of environmental performance criteria organized into six categories, the Canadian version of LEED, which is very similar to the USGBC version, is listed below:
Hunter Lovins on Sustainable Construction using Bamboo
Hunter Lovins is the founder and president of Natural Capital Solutions, Inc. and educates senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In partnership with leading thinkers and implementers, NCS creates innovative, practical tools and strategies to enable companies, communities and countries to become more sustainable.
Hunter sees a role for building residential and commercial structures using Structural Bamboo as part of an integrated plan for local based economic and community development that would have the added benefit of removing significant levels of carbon from the atmosphere. The interview was conducted in a Bamboo Home on Maui built by Bamboo Technologies. www.bambooliving.com
Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second Edition
Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second Edition
The green building movement has come a long way in a short time. Responding to this exponential growth, with its attendant technological as well as aesthetic developments, Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Deliver, Second Edition guides construction and design professionals through the process of developing commercial and institutional high-performance green buildings in today’s marketplace. In this revised edition, Charles Kibert delivers a detailed, and passionate, overv
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Green buildings guru talks sustainable construction
Green building guru Jeremy Sumeray outlines sustainable future for construction sector. Filmed for www.edie.net the online information source for environmental professionals
The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability (Sustainable Design)
The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability (Sustainable Design)
“The members of 7group and Bill Reed are examples writ large of the kind of leadership that is taking this idea of green building and forming it into reality, by helping change minds, building practice, and design process.”
—from the Foreword by S. Rick Fedrizzi President, CEO, and Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council A whole-building approach to sustainability The integrative design process offers a new path to making better green building decisions and addressing comp
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