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Organizations representing building-safety professionals, energy and lighting engineers, green-building practitioners, architects, and technical-standard developers have come together to establish a comprehensive model green-building code designed to rapidly advance green-building practice across the United States....More

With the publication of a green-building standard, an updated online seminar reviewing its requirements will be available from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) on March 15. The seminar will focus on the requirements of ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1, Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, and be taught by Tom Lawrence, a member of the committee that developed the standard....More

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), with an assist from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), unveiled the nation's first code-intended commercial green building standard to members of the media during its annual press breakfast just prior to the start of the 2010 International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo) Jan. 25 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla....More

The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) “Your Role in the Green Environment” curriculum has been approved by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for 15 hours of continuing education (CE) under the Green Building Certification Institute’s Credentialing Maintenance Program....More

HPAC Engineering author Jerry Yudelson, PE, MBA, LEED AP, will discuss the insights and green-building practices he illuminated in his recent book, “Green Building Trends: Europe,” during a free Webinar on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 1 p.m. Eastern....More

The Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami is committed to becoming one of the country's leading bioscience research institutions. It also...More

In coordination with green-building councils worldwide, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is helping kick off the inaugural World Green Building Day on Wednesday, Sept. 23, by leading a group of green-building practitioners, including architects, engineers, builders, planners, contractors, and building owners, to advocate for climate-change legislation on Capitol Hill....More

Marc Nathanson, founder of Falcon Waterfree Technologies, has been recognized by Global Green USA with the 2009 Millennium Award for Green Building Environmental Leadership....More

Ken Langer, president of Environmental Market Solutions Inc. (EMSI), a unit of Carrier Corp., will be presenting at two green-building conferences in Asia this summer: the China Sustainable Building Summit 2009, which will take place from June 20 to July 1, and GreenBuild Asia 2009, which will begin July 7 in Hong Kong. Carrier Corp. is a unit of United Technologies Corp....More

Great article (The State of Energy: Revisited, March). It lays out the energy economic arguments in a very clear and concise manner. Matter of fact and...More

Greenbuild International Conference and Expo just continues to grow. Proving that last year's impressive attendance was no fluke, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the show's sponsor, said attendance for the 2008 event, held Nov. 19-21 in Boston, was just over 28,000 — an increase of about 20 percent over 2007. That's big....More