Reporting on Sustainably Built Environments from Bricks to Cities
Green Building Elements has a few more interesting and useful websites added to its blogroll for you to check out for more information about green building and design. If you have come across a particularly useful or interesting site with a strong emphasis on green building and sustainable design, drop us a note about it [...]
Solar Power in Building Design by Peter Gevorkian is subtitled “The Engineer’s Complete Design Resource,” and it is certainly an apt description of this extensive volume. The book goes far beyond what a casual reader interested in solar power would need to know, but there is a wealth of good information inside, and it is [...]
San Francisco’s Union Square may be noted for its abundance of shopping, hotels, tourist joints, and even outside movies; but, a Green Home? Don’t call your Green Real Estate agent quite yet. The temporary green home occupied the prime real estate last week as part of the Better Homes and Gardens & Green Works Living [...]
Harvard University has achieved several firsts with the recent renovation of an old power plant into an office building. It is the first LEED Platinum certified university building renovation, as well as Harvard’s first Platinum building. More interestingly though, it is the first Platinum building built before the turn of the the century–last century, that [...]
If you attended the Greenbuild conference in Chicago last November, you would have been hard pressed to find a green cabinet manufacturer among the exhibitors – but you couldn’t turn around without bumping into a new type of green countertop. They nearly outnumbered the waterless urinals. Over the past couple of decades, countertops have evolved [...]
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