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GPRO Operations & Maintenance Essentials, Online Training with Urban Green Council, September 11, 18 & 25
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...
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0 replies | 47 views | Posted on: 07/19/2024 | Last updated: 07/23/2024
GPRO Operations & Maintenance Essentials, Online Training with Urban Green Council, November 5, 11 & 19
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...
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0 replies | 102 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
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...
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0 replies | 92 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
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...
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0 replies | 36 views | Posted on: 07/19/2024 | Last updated: 07/23/2024
GPRO Construction Management, Online Training with Urban Green Council, October 22 & 24
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...
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0 replies | 82 views | Posted on: 07/19/2024 | Last updated: 07/23/2024
Major Green Building Organizations Rally Around the Common Materials Framework (CMF)
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...
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0 replies | 952 views | Posted on: 11/29/2023 | Last updated: 11/29/2023
Global GreenTag International Launches First Nature Positive Standard and Declaration
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...
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0 replies | 825 views | Posted on: 11/29/2023 | Last updated: 11/29/2023
What are Environmental Product Declarations, or EPDs?
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...
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0 replies | 9593 views | Posted on: 01/31/2018 | Last updated: 02/21/2023
An overview of Building Life Cycle Assessment for the construction industry
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...
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0 replies | 3749 views | Posted on: 01/25/2019 | Last updated: 02/13/2023
How the Living Building Challenge Moves the Green Building Industry Forward
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...
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0 replies | 2800 views | Posted on: 01/02/2020 | Last updated: 02/08/2023
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