Articles Tagged with ''carbon footprint''

Early planning ensures compliance with ever-stricter environmental regulations. It allows time for devising the most efficient building processes, reduces waste generation and minimizes a project’s overall carbon footprint.

While the resilience benefits of building codes are already staggering, the discussion is expanding beyond traditional definitions of benefit.

NEU: An ACI Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete—with a mission to drive education, awareness, and adoption of carbon-neutral concrete materials and technologies—announced the detailed plans for $6B of investments in the U.S. industrial sector by the U.S. Department of Energy.

The U.S. General Services Administration recently awarded over $10 million to select windows made of low embodied carbon glass to be featured in an existing renovation project at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. U.S. Courthouse and Annex buildings in Richmond, Virginia.

The UK-based Building Research Establishment, Green Building Council of Australia and the U.S. Green Building Council have announced an industry-first, international alliance to unlock the sustainable finance needed for the built environment to play its role in meeting global climate goals.

While much attention has historically been focused on operational carbon emissions generated during a building's lifecycle, the significance of embodied carbon cannot be overstated.

Innovative Brick Systems has rejoined AltusGroup as an Innovation Partner to lend its expertise and technical support to the group’s precaster members.

Participants at the 2024 Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance Annual Conference were given the opportunity to take part in an interactive session entitled, "The EC3 Tool for Glazing and Fenestration Products | Facilitating Improvements in the EPD System."

Vitro Architectural Glass has announced the promotion of Fernando Diez to Vice President of Marketing. In this role, Diez will develop and implement global marketing efforts and lead four multi-regional teams in North America, including Vitro’s Sample Program and Center for Architectural Design.

BASF and Carlisle Construction Materials have announced a collaboration using Lupranate® ZERO, the world’s first isocyanate with a zero carbon footprint.