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What is The Living Building Challenge?
The Living Building Challenge (LBC) is an international sustainable building certification program, created in 2006 by the International Living Future Institute, as a part of the Cascadia Green Building Council, itself a chapter of both the… more...
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Living Building Challenge
0 replies | 1432 views | Posted on: 02/01/2016 | Last updated: 02/01/2016
WELL Certification Standard
Hello Allison and all I was able to meet during USGBC Greenbuild! For those of us who work primarily within the Indoor Environmental Quality arena, I am excited to see the WELL Building Standard gaining so much speed in the marketplace. A… more...
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WELL Building Standard
2 replies | 1154 views | Posted on: 01/29/2016 | Last updated: 02/01/2016
The One World Observatory Recently Achieved LEED Gold Certification
The observatory on the top of New York’s Freedom Tower, known as The One World Observatory, recently achieved LEED Gold Certification. The observatory opened earlier this year on May 29. The new building that towers over Ground Zero, is 1… more...
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LEED (USGBC)
0 replies | 940 views | Posted on: 09/27/2015 | Last updated: 01/29/2016
Downtown Tampa Area to become first Well Building Health and Wellness City District
Tampa's downtown Amalie Arena will be part of the world’s first health- and-wellness city district, to be certified according to the Well Building Standard. Partners in the project include Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik, buildi… more...
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WELL Building Standard
0 replies | 1112 views | Posted on: 10/13/2015 | Last updated: 01/29/2016
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) Launches Residential Energy+ for Home Energy Performance and Cost Measurement
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is launching Residential Energy+, an initiative to measure and value home energy performance and costs in valuing residential real estate. The measure has three top goals: 1. Putting a home energy metric i… more...
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Other Whole Building Standards
0 replies | 1164 views | Posted on: 10/18/2015 | Last updated: 01/29/2016
Flux and Partners debut the Quartz Project Open Database to help Decisonmakers Select Lower-Impact and Lower Toxicity Materials
There continues to be exciting collaboration around health and green building. This week at Greenbiz' VERGE Conference Flux, the Healthy Building Network, Google and Thinkstep launched the Quartz Project, a data initiative that helps buildi… more...
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Certifications/Labels and Transparency
0 replies | 1029 views | Posted on: 10/28/2015 | Last updated: 10/28/2015
LEED v4 – Navigating the Changes & Understanding the New Materials Selection Criteria
USGBC NYS Upstate Chapter presents its July Sustainable Speakers Series presentation exploring the newest addition to the LEED certification. Presented by: Aliesa Adelman LEED BD+C and Kim Bawden LEED GA, LCACP Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2… more...
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LEED (USGBC)
0 replies | 1248 views | Posted on: 07/15/2015 | Last updated: 09/26/2015
LEED Marketing Brochure, USGBC
I found a helpful interactive brochure that describes the certification options for various categories of green building within LEED. http://leed.usgbc.org/ more...
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LEED (USGBC)
0 replies | 537 views | Posted on: 09/26/2015 | Last updated: 09/26/2015
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