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Registration opens for Rocky Mountain Green 2020

Posted by | Jan 28, 2020 | 0 |

Rocky Mountain Green is the largest green building conference in the region, and brings together hundreds of building professionals, sustainability leaders and change-makers for discussions about today’s most pressing environmental and green building issues. The conference offers engaging educational sessions that inspire attendees into action while focusing on USGBC’s mission to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated. This year’s program offers sessions around four tracks: All Things Considered – From Housing to Whole Cities, Building for Resiliency and Equality, Nuts & Bolts of Green Building, and Innovative Building Strategies.

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Hogs for the Cause Family Center, a sanctuary of healing in New Orleans

Hogs for the Cause Family Center, a sanctuary of healing in New Orleans

Posted by | Jan 28, 2020 | 0 |

One of the original structures on the former 1930s-era U.S. Marine Hospital site, the Hogs for the Cause Family Center designed by EskewDumezRipple, is now a welcome sanctuary of healing for visiting families and patients to New Orleans’ Children’s Hospital. The project is a story of how a community came together to take a long-forgotten tract of land and property, and repurpose and prioritize it for patients, families, and the greater New Orleans region, and in doing so, designing a space that invokes a much larger community impact.

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Saeed Towfighi joins Stantec’s buildings practice

Posted by | Jan 27, 2020 | 0 |

Stantec is pleased to announce that Senior Structural Engineer Saeed Towfighi has joined its buildings team in Ottawa. He specializes in structural design projects within high-seismic areas, and holds a US patent on the effective use of damping systems for building and non-building structures — a significant invention due to the level of energy dissipation that can be achieved, often with lower costs than traditional design methods.

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Johns Manville announces plan to build polyiso production plant in Texas

Posted by | Jan 27, 2020 | 0 |

Johns Manville’s Hillsboro plant will manufacture polyiso products including ENRGY 3® roof insulation, ProtectoR® HD high density cover board, AP® Foil Faced Foam sheathing and GoBoard® tile backer. These polyiso products are preferred in the market due to their high R-value per inch and the lightweight strength and durability they offer for several building applications.

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Cultural and Health Center buildings in Shanghai have topped out

Cultural and Health Center buildings in Shanghai have topped out

Posted by | Jan 26, 2020 | 0 |

Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Shanghai Cofco Cultural and Health Center has topped out. The project aims at being a social condenser, fostering community among the residents of the surrounding new housing blocks with a public space and park along an existing canal. While the adjacent housing blocks are repetitive, here the architecture is of spatial energy and openness, inviting the whole community in for recreational and cultural programs.

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Arkansas nonprofit received $440K to construct 56-unit housing development

Posted by | Jan 26, 2020 | 0 |

Strategic Community Investments of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was recently awarded a $440,000 Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grant from Arvest Bank and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas). The grant will help fund the construction of Electric Park, a 56-unit apartment and four-plex community for low- to very low-income, special-needs, elderly and homeless individuals.

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USGBC releases the top 10 states for LEED

USGBC releases the top 10 states for LEED

Posted by | Jan 25, 2020 | 0 |

As USGBC continues to advance green buildings, cities and communities through the adoption of LEED and the latest version of the rating system, LEED v4.1, the organization is also considering a future that is focused on a more regenerative approach. In November 2019 at the annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, USGBC introduced LEED Positive – a roadmap that will lay the foundation for a future of LEED that transitions away from strategies that only reduce harm and instead focus on those that help repair and restore.

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Lorin supplies anodized aluminum for unique panels on the CapitaMall LuOne shopping complex in Shanghai

Lorin supplies anodized aluminum for unique panels on the CapitaMall LuOne shopping complex in Shanghai

Posted by | Jan 24, 2020 | 0 |

Lorin Industries, Inc. announces that it supplied the anodized aluminum for the unique shining silver-toned exterior panels for the CapitaMall LuOne shopping complex, located in Shanghai, China. Designed by famed international architect Moshe Safdie, the CapitaMall LuOne’s façade includes a living wall with exterior curtain wall “flappers” made from Custom ClearBrite® and Custom Silver White anodized aluminum provided by Lorin, which move gracefully in the wind.

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Cradle to Cradle Certified products

The Cradle to Cradle program certifies products based on five quality categories—material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. Click here to see a list of building supply & materials, as well as other products, that are Cradle to Cradle certified.

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