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GPRO Operations & Maintenance Essentials, Online Training with Urban Green Council, November 5, 11 & 19

AIA credits,Emerging Green Professionals,GPRO,GBCI,GPRO Certification,CEUs,PDH

by lc Associate, Education O&D at Urban Green Council

GPRO Operations & Maintenance Essentials (O&M) provides building professionals with strategies to reduce energy use while improving tenant comfort and health. Participants leave with at least three immediately actiona… more...

0 replies | 572 views | Posted on: 07/19/2024 | Last updated: 10/16/2024

GPRO Construction Management, Online Training with Urban Green Council, October 22 & 24

AIA credits,GBCI,CEUs,PDH

by lc Associate, Education O&D at Urban Green Council

GPRO Construction Management provides practitioners with sustainability best practices and actionable strategies for every phase of construction, as well as how to avoid common mistakes. Taught by highly knowledgeable industry pro… more...

0 replies | 760 views | Posted on: 07/19/2024 | Last updated: 10/16/2024

Major Green Building Organizations Rally Around the Common Materials Framework (CMF)

Transparency,Green Building Certifications,Building Materials,Certifications,Common Materials Framework,CMF

by Rate It Green Team

At Greenbuild 2023, leading green building organizations, including the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), the U.S. Green Building Coun… more...

0 replies | 1270 views | Posted on: 11/29/2023 | Last updated: 08/22/2024

Global GreenTag International Launches First Nature Positive Standard and Declaration

Climate Change,Certification,Health,Transparency,Toxicity,Biodiversity,Circularity,Nature Positive,Habitat

by Rate It Green Team

Global GreenTag International recently launched the first Nature Positive green building programs, the NaturePositive+ Standard™ and the NaturePositive+ Declaration™. Both programs call on product manufacturers, built environmen… more...

  Filed under: Global GreenTag

0 replies | 1130 views | Posted on: 11/29/2023 | Last updated: 08/22/2024

GPRO Operations & Maintenance Essentials, Online Training with Urban Green Council, September 11, 18 & 25

AIA credits,GBCI,CEUs,PDH

by lc Associate, Education O&D at Urban Green Council

GPRO Operations & Maintenance Essentials (O&M) provides building professionals with strategies to reduce energy use while improving tenant comfort and health. Participants leave with at least three immediately actiona… more...

0 replies | 458 views | Posted on: 07/19/2024 | Last updated: 07/23/2024

GPRO Fundamentals of Building Green, Online Training with Urban Green Council, December 3, 9 am - 2 pm ET

Green Building,High Performance Building,AIA credits,GPRO,GBCI,GPRO Certification,CEUs,PDH

by lc Associate, Education O&D at Urban Green Council

In GPRO Fundamentals of Building Green, you will learn how to see buildings differently and discover strategies to make them efficient, healthy and resilient. What you’ll learn By the end of this course, participants w… more...

0 replies | 581 views | Posted on: 07/19/2024 | Last updated: 07/23/2024

GPRO Fundamentals of Building Green, Online Training with Urban Green Council, October 9, 9 am - 2 pm ET

AIA,GBCI,CEUs,PDH

by lc Associate, Education O&D at Urban Green Council

In GPRO Fundamentals of Building Green, you will learn how to see buildings differently and discover strategies to make them efficient, healthy and resilient. What you’ll learn By the end of this course, participants w… more...

0 replies | 620 views | Posted on: 07/19/2024 | Last updated: 07/23/2024

What are Environmental Product Declarations, or EPDs?

Transparency,EPDs,Labels,Product Transparency

by Amy

An EPD, or environmental product declaration, is a method of showing the environmental impacts of a material or product in a standardized way, with both quantitative and qualitative information. EPD reports are acquired through third party … more...

0 replies | 9791 views | Posted on: 01/31/2018 | Last updated: 02/21/2023

An overview of Building Life Cycle Assessment for the construction industry

Green Building,LEED,Sustainability,LCA,LEED V4,BREEAM,Carbon neutral,Low Carbon Development,LCAs,LCA Analysis

by Erica Terranova We work to make Building Life Cycle Assessment easy and fast

What is LCA?   LCA answers the simple question: how sustainable is my product or process? We know products are not equal in terms of their environmental impact and putting a number on that can be hard. LCA is a standardized,… more...

0 replies | 3931 views | Posted on: 01/25/2019 | Last updated: 02/13/2023

How the Living Building Challenge Moves the Green Building Industry Forward

Hitchcock Center for the Environment,R.W. Kern Center

by abu417 Climate Connoisseur. Eco-Maniac. Solar Sommelier.

            Being an intern at RateItGreen.com, I learned a lot of vocabulary and catchy names along the way. The things that really stuck out to me the most were things that came up fr… more...

0 replies | 2907 views | Posted on: 01/02/2020 | Last updated: 02/08/2023

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