The National Green Building Standard, known as ICC-700, was approved on January 29 as an American National Standard. The new Standard provides guidance for safe and sustainable building practices for ...

"This project is a work-in-progress on HygroStructures (‘hygro’ from the root Greek word ‘hugros’, meaning ‘wet’), a new class of physical structures that conserve form, material and process.

Rising demand for housing in most major cities around the world is increasingly at odds with efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, as the literal building blocks—concrete and cement—of the ...

With the growth of the United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification program, no longer is it viable to merely install recycled carpet and ...

Seeing green In the past seven years, hints of the green-building trend have surfaced here. Within a 30-mile radius of Butte, 37 NorthWestern Energy customers have installed renewable energy systems; ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Green Building Materials - A Global Market Overview" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global market for Green Building Materials is likely ...