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State Compensation Insurance Fund Building Goes Greengreenbuildingelements.com » Green Building Elements - Oct 31, 2008 Leave it to the State Compensation Insurance Fund, the quasi-public workers’ compensation insurer based in San Francisco, to bring more green building to the Bay Area. Okay, we’re stretching it a little to call … Also tagged: energy, design, materials, construction, landfills, energy efficiency, energy savings, urinals, construction waste, solar panel system, hok, flow toilets, low flow, state compensation insurance fund, lighting and 38 electrical, recycled building materials, water use and 38 plumbing, ventilation and 38 indoor air quality, irrigation system, heating and cooling systems, state compensation insurance, non potable water, server virtualization technology, system energy, rubber flooring |
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First LEED Certified Green Data Centergreenbuildingelements.com » Green Building Elements - Oct 24, 2008 Mostly when we talk about LEED certified buildings we think about office buildings or government centers but here we scope out another first. The Advanced Data Center building in Sac-town already became the first data … Also tagged: business, energy, design, materials, residential, construction, energy efficiency, energy use, first data, grey water, water flow, doing the right thing, brownfield, cooling systems, economizer, passive systems, green building tour, water use and 38 plumbing, heating and 38 cooling, ventilation and 38 indoor air quality, cooling tower, government centers, mcclellan air force base, leed certified buildings, water fixtures, sac town, energy hogs, roof rainwater, polluted groundwater, flow design, municipal water system |
thaindian.com » Thaindian News - Oct 23, 2008
Managua, Oct 24 (IANS) At least 23 people have been killed and thousands affected in floods caused by torrential rains over the past 30 days in Nicaragua, EFE news agency reported Friday, citing officials.The …
Also tagged: uncategorized, evacuations, heavy rains, torrential rains, efe news agency, civil defence, central american nation, disaster operations, nicaragua managua, operations centre
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Largest Solar Installation at a Winerygreenbuildingelements.com » Green Building Elements - Oct 17, 2008 Up here in the Bay Area where people are crazy about their wine and their green building, Gonzalez winery decided to combine both. No, the Monterey County based isn’t the first local winery to go solar but when this … Also tagged: business, energy, wine, cars, solar system, commercial, power management, trees, wineries, social justice, monterey county, environmental benefits, organic wines, solar installation, seasonal workers, organic grapes |
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Largest LEED Platinum Building in the Worldgreenbuildingelements.com » Green Building Elements - Oct 10, 2008 This post, like the masses of crowds, makes its way inside the just opened Academy of Sciences Museum. And why not as the Museum just became the largest LEED Platinum building in the world as well as the world’s most … Also tagged: design, materials, civic, coral reef, leed, aquariums, louvre, rainforest, pacific ocean, seahorse, potable water, filtration, programs and standards, lighting and 38 electrical, water use and 38 plumbing, sciences museum, aquarium water, water planet, recycling systems, radical ideas, roof skylights, alligator swamp |
greenbuildingelements.com » Green Building Elements - Oct 3, 2008
A shift in locale (from San Francisco to San Jose) did nothing to change the energy and the recent West Coast Green. As we any conference we tried to see as much new buildings materials, spy as much green washing and …
Also tagged: materials, shipping containers, bathroom vanities, hunter lovins, west coast green, water usage, harbinger, low flow, new buildings, cool air, interior materials, structural materials, lighting control system, shipping companies, william hayward
greenbuildingelements.com » Green Building Elements - Sep 26, 2008
It sounds like a war effort or some great new candy bar, but it has been ten years in the making. Yes, the Academy of Sciences museum finally opens in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. We’re totally jazzed to have this …
Also tagged: design, civic, landscaping, renzo piano, tree sap, planetarium, golden gate park, native plants, green guys, rana creek, sciences museum, africa hall, coconut husks, albino crocodile, heat island effect, urban heat island
gadling.com » Gadling - Sep 25, 2008
Filed under: Arts and Culture, Learning, North America, United States, Hotels and Accommodations, Transportation, Budget Travel Summer might be over, but it's never out of season to take a road trip down the Oregon …
Also tagged: oregon, fni, road trip, roadtrip, newport, pacific coast highway, pacificcoasthighway, cannon beach, tillamook cheese, pacificcoast, tillamookcheese, cannonbeach
greenbuildingelements.com » Green Building Elements - Aug 28, 2008
Sprawl is a constant issue at the outside periphery of every city in the country. Although matters have abated temporarily in the midst of the housing and mortgage crunch, new construction continues to decimate the …
Also tagged: development, california, legislation, new urbanism, urbanism, wetlands, farmland, smart growth, sprawl, site and 38 development
greenbuildingelements.com » Green Building Elements - Aug 21, 2008
The air is going to get a little bit cleaner come January, 2009 - and that has nothing to do with a new presidential administration. The California Air Resources Board’s dramatic Air Toxic Control Measure known as “the …
Also tagged: health, construction, carb, leed, usgbc, cpa, formaldehyde, programs and standards, composite wood, ventilation and 38 indoor air quality