Green Building

Rapid Set Offers a Greener Hydraulic Cement
By: Kimberly Kayler - Friday, January 22, 2010
Source: iGreenBuild.com
Cypress, Calif. – January 20, 2010 – According to recent studies, Rapid Set^® is a greener hydraulic cement primarily because it has a much smaller carbon footprint than portland cement. In its manufacturing process, it generates far less carbon dioxide (CO₂).

Alabama Schools Make $2.9 Million Green Commitment
By: Keith Hobbs - Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Source: Schneider Electric
The Florence City Schools in Florence, Ala., are implementing $2.9 million in facility enhancements designed to improve operations, comfort and efficiency at nine district buildings totaling more than 925,000 square feet. Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, will complete the work as a performance contract with the district. Schneider Electric guarantees that Florence City Schools will reduce its utility costs by at least $207,000 annually when the project is completed in October 2010.

Follansbee(R) Contributes to New Jersey School’s LEED(R) Platinum Certification
By: Lauren Ban - Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Source: Follansbee Steel
A Follansbee TCS II® roof lends a combination of sustainable attributes and unique visual appeal to the newest addition to the Willow School, a K-8 private elementary school in Gladstone, NJ, which recently attained USGBC® LEED® Platinum Certification.

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A School Gymnasium surrounded by nature
By: Marcela Casas, Architect - Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Source: iGreenBuild.com

This gymnasium complex for a K-12 school, located in the outskirts of Colombia’s capital, uses passive strategies and local materials offering an innovative, bright and multipurpose space for the students as well as a smart and considerate solution to the client.

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Insuring your construction projects today and for the future
By: Sharon Iburg - Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Source: Keenan & Associates
What is the measure of a successful project?
Is it that the project was completed on time? The project stayed under budget? There were no serious incidents that occurred during construction? Punch list items were at an all time low? The community is pleased and with the new facility, its design, cost, and delivery, and can’t wait for their children to use it? The board has needed little intervention as to the building of the project?

Midwestern State University Unveils new 23,000-SF Mccoy School of Engineering Facility in Wichita Falls, Texas
By: Claire Bloxom - Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Source: SchoolFacilities.com
Midwestern State University’s (MWSU) McCoy School of Engineering at Fowler Hall in Wichita Falls, Texas – a renovated $6.2 million, 23,000-square-foot multipurpose academic building – has been completed and is an adaptive reuse of one of MWSU’s original buildings.

Benchmarking and the Implications of AB 1103
By: Easton Gardner, LEED AP - Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Source: Greener Dawn Inc.
The green building movement has transformed from solar panels and low-VOC paint to a complete shift in commercial real estate transactions – are you ready for green negotiations?

First LEED Certified Gold School of Architecture
By: Jackie Schultz - Monday, July 27, 2009
Source: SchoolFacilities.com
As the first school of architecture in the United States to be certified LEED Gold and the first Pennsylvania State University LEED building, the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) is a $20 million project completed in 2005 by Overland Partners architects from San Antonio, Texas, WTW Architects and LaQuatra Bonci landscape architects both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

UNLV FACILITIES TEAM WINS HIGHEST HONOR FOR EFFICIENT USE OF TAXPAYER FUNDS IN NEVADA
By: Frank Lucas - Monday, July 27, 2009
Source: Nevada Taxpayers Association
The UNLV department of Facilities Management was recently honored by the Nevada Taxpayers Association with the Cashman Good Government Award, the highest honor for a public employee or program in the state of Nevada.

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