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Roxul ComfortBoard IS has some important environmental and performance advantages over XPS and polyisocyanurate insulation ComfortBoard IS, Roxul's exterior insulation board, is being distributed nationwide in the U.S. at thickensses up to 3". Photo Credit: Roxul Readers of this Energ...
Turning waste into a unique architectural product, Coldspring and Jason F. McLennan have teamed up on a new dimensional stone product. Photo: Coldspring As the founder and CEO of the International Living Future Institute and its influential Living Building Challenge, Declare product d...
Poison pill pushed by illegal lobbyists, or exciting, bipartisan energy bill that could change everything? It could be up to you. Meet the "strategic advocate" behind Green Globes. The president of this organization is also Green Buidling Initiative's vice president for federal outrea...
Heat-Pump Clothes Dryers Really Work, Study Confirms Residential clothes dryers account for an estimated 4% of annual U.S. household electricity use, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Yet these appliances continue to use standard tumble-dry, electric-resistance te...
Despite their promise as a durable, rapidly renewable building material that uses agricultural waste, compressed-straw boards have not taken off in the U.S. That’s not for lack of trying: counting various straw composites, EBN has covered the comings and goings of more than a dozen pr...
Roxul ComfortBoard IS has some important environmental and performance advantages over XPS and polyisocyanurate insulation ComfortBoard IS, Roxul's exterior insulation board, is being distributed nationwide in the U.S. at thickensses up to 3". Photo Credit: Roxul Readers of this Energ...
Whole-Building Life-Cycle Assessment: Taking the Measure of a Green Building 1 CEU is available to BuildingGreen members. Log in or join to earn the credit. Net-zero energy use is a difficult goal for most buildings—but it wasn’t nearly enough for the designers of the Center for Inter...
Great article however I think a more appropriate title might have been "LCA alone wont give us a zero impact building but without it you've got no chance". Whole of building LCA provides plenty of counter intuitive results and results that really challenge some peoples way of thinking...
