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GSA Brainchild: Full Fees After Building Hits Energy-Use Targets
05/14/12 By Nadine M. Post
For an office project in Seattle, the U.S. General Services Administration is withholding 0.5% of the design-build team’s contract value until the building performs as promised, regarding energy use.

Photo courtesy Sellen Construction Co.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Green Roof Captures Water, Camouflages Building and Complicated Construction
04/16/12 By Nadine M. Post
22,000-sq-ft visitor center with a 10,000-sq-ft green roof kicks off Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s stormwater management program

Photo by Rebecca Bullene/BBG

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05/07/12	Georgia Tech Builds Carbon-Neutral Lab to Study Carbon Neutrality By Scott Judy Unlike most laboratories, Georgia Tech’s is designed as both an energy miser and a prototype for net-zero energy-use research facilities.
04/30/12	Lots More Green Building Paperwork Coming Soon, Warn Code Watchers By Nadine M. Post in Grapevine, Texas Steel group warns of future, intense material information and documentation requirements to meet green buildings codes and standards, and gives tips on compliance to steel sector members. Lots more paperwork will be necessary to document carbon footprint of all building materials, beginning in two or three years, say the experts.
04/16/12	National Renewable Energy Lab Building Meets Annual Energy Use Goals By Nadine M. Post For its first full year of occupancy, the nation’s biggest energy miser—a 220,000-sq-ft office building in Golden, Colo.—met its modeled annual energy-use targets.
04/09/12	New Green Model Code Released By Pam Hunter 2012 version of IgCC provides more flexibility to builders and designers2012 version of IgCC provides more flexibility to builders and designers
02/27/12	Big Usage Gaps Exist Between Building Energy Models and Performance By Nadine M. Post in Chicago Mechanical engineers burst myths about green buildings and energy conservation.
02/20/12	Tensioning Eases Stress on a 13-Story Sustainability Showcase By Nadine M. Post Switch to novel concrete system from damped steel moment frame sliced $4 million off the structural cost of the San Francisco building.
02/20/12	U.S. Post-Tensioned Seismic Systems Not Yet Tested by a Quake By Nadine M. Post Novel structural systems are designed to limit building movement and damage in major earthquakes
12/19/11	Green Building Booms in India By Mridu Khullar Relph In India, the market for green buildings is exploding.
12/19/11	Green Schoolhouses to Be Built With Donated Materials, Volunteers By Scott Blair With the first of 24 LEED-Platinum schools breaking ground in Phoenix, the all-volunteer Green Schoolhouses Series has launched to provide $200 million in new, 100% donated buildings for disadvantaged public schools across the country.
10/17/11	Green Model Contract Forms Coming Out Early Next Year By Joann Gonchar in Toronto The American Institute of Architects previewed green model contract documents at Greenbuild in Toronto. The International Living Future Institute unveiled a net-zero energy use building certification program.
10/05/11	Two Small Buildings are Taking ‘Green’ to Big Extremes By Tim Newcomb Design for 38,000-sq-ft hospital in Washington state calls for slashing energy use by nearly two thirds compared to a typical hospital. Design for a 52,000-sq-ft office building in Seattle aims for net-zero energy use to offset energy consumption of 16,000 Btu per sq ft per year.
08/24/11	Green Building Code 'Rollback' in N.M. Sparks Debate By Ben Ikenson in Albuquerque New Mexico’s Construction Industries Commission voted to replace a stringent energy conservation code developed by the state’s previous governor, sparking a lawsuit and vigorous industry debate.New Mexico’s Construction Industries Commission voted to replace a stringent energy conservation code developed by the state’s previous governor, sparking a lawsuit and vigorous industry debate.
08/15/11	Report Identifies Barriers, Solutions to Energy-Benchmarking Policies By Pam Hunter A new report from the Institute for Market Transformation takes a look at the barriers to implementing effective building energy benchmarking and disclosure laws and how to overcome those barriers.
07/18/11	Super-Green Steps: Colo. Building Hits Net-Zero Energy For 1 Day By Nadine Post Nation’s largest “net-zero” building could top its June 22 milestone of net-zero-energy use for a day, with NZEU for the entire month of July.
07/04/11	Joplin, Mo., Devastated by May 22 Tornado, Learning Lessons From Rubble By John Gregerson Post-twister forensics lay the groundwork for a massive reconstruction effort, with probable revisions in building code.
06/29/11	Kansas Tornado Town Rebuilding With an Eye Toward Sustainability By John Gregerson Greensburg learned lessons about smart rebuilding.

04/27/11 Haiti’s President-Elect Sees Major Tasks Ahead
04/06/11 Closely Watched Building Lives Up to Expectations
04/06/11 Construction Contributions Drive Hospital’s Rise in Haiti
04/06/11 Risky ‘Golden’ Job Proves Itself a ‘Door Opener’
02/23/11 Hundreds of Roofs Buckle After Storms Slam Northeast
02/17/11 Forensics Team Seeks Cause Of Midwest Green Roof Collapse
01/26/11 Third Millennium Rescue for Ailing Pyramid
01/12/11 Structures Group Criticizes Building Rating System Draft
12/22/10 Metrodome Repair Under Way, But Vikings Want New Venue
12/15/10 Weight of Snow Deflates Fabric Roof Of Minneapolis Metrodome
11/24/10 Global Cities Rally To Tackle Sustainability
11/10/10 Tighter Standards, Model Code Aim To Cut Building Energy Use
11/03/10 Rating System Preview at ASCE
10/06/10 Chile’s Quake Likely To Have Minor Impact on U.S. Practice
10/06/10 Prefabricated Unit Prototype Contains Solar Collector
09/29/10 House ‘Quake Belts’ Could Prevent Collapses
09/29/10 Once Again, Rivals Slam PCA’s Proposed Sample Ordinance
09/15/10 Is It a Park, Wastewater Treatment Plant or Both?
09/01/10 Construction Methods of the Ancient Inca Offer Sustainable Lessons
06/30/10 Higher Ed Sets Power Goals
06/10/10 Architects Release Tracking Tool For Sustainable Design
06/09/10 Safety Concerns Close Historic Baltimore Monument
06/09/10 New Process Shows Dollar Value of Building Green
06/09/10 Rating Controversy Heats Up
06/02/10 Green 'SITES' Rating Program Picks 175 Pilot Projects
05/19/10 Contractor Offers Limited Fix For Troubled Seattle Tower
05/06/10 Feds Seek Energy-Efficient Building Projects
05/05/10 Green Design-Build Model Crafted for Buildings To Achieve Net-Zero Energy Use
05/05/10 Report: Green Opportunities
03/17/10 Green-Standard Efforts Merge
02/25/10 Earthquake Engineers Head to Haiti for More Research
02/10/10 Group Clarifies Rating System Confusion
02/10/10 Surviving Hangar Shored Against Storm
02/03/10 NIST Recommends Code Changes for Fabric-Covered Steel Structures
01/20/10 Remote Sensing Catalogs Quake Damage to Buildings in Haiti
01/18/10 Structural Engineers Begin On-Site Damage Assessments in Haiti
01/06/10 India Considers 'Green' National Rating System
12/16/09 Troubled Tower Project Halted by Settlement Ends With a Crash
12/03/09 Masdar City Offers $150,000 Prize for Sustainable Concrete Mix
11/18/09 Sustainability Boosters See Greener Pastures
08/26/09 Winds Blow Roof Section Off Brand-New Indian Terminal
08/26/09 Las Vegas High-Rise Problem Snares California Inspector
07/08/09 Building Rating System Requirement Raises Concerns
07/01/09 Landscape Architecture Rising
07/01/09 Debut Exam for Yet Another 'Sustainable' Credential
07/01/09 Refrigerants More Greenhouse Than 'Green,' Study Says
07/01/09 Landscape Architects Invade Big Cities
06/10/09 Greener Empire State Building Could Be Model for Retrofits
05/15/09 House Passes Spending Bills For Schools and Defense
05/13/09 Green Building Rating System Revamp Gets High Marks
05/06/09 Industry Participants Outline Added Green-Building Risks
03/25/09 Vegas' CityCenter Problems Mount
03/04/09 Nearby Subway Excavation Suspected As Cause of Cologne Building Collapse
01/28/09 Some Surprises at Shake Test

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