Des Moines, IA – Greengrade–LEED Management SoftwareTM, a division of Textura ® Corporation, announces the addition of LEED Canada to its available LEED-supported rating systems. Project teams seeking LEED certification via the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) can now utilize […]
Corbett Lunsford has performed hundreds of comprehensive home performance assessments as technical director of Green Dream Group and has also written Home Performance Diagnostics: the Guide to Advanced Testing. In this Q&A he answers some common questions about home performance
For more than a hundred years, modular has been touted as the next big thing in homebuilding. But neither companies as practical as Sears Roebuck, which offered a house in a box in 1908, nor architects as visionary as Frank
Earth. The abundant resource is locally accessible almost everywhere on Earth. The ease of transportation alone makes it a fine green building material, but its benefits are much more than just that. It’s non-toxic, has a high thermal mass, low
Space heating accounts for 29 percent of personal greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, second only to passenger road transportation. Other northern countries also face the space heating challenge when trying to attain environmental sustainability. Doug McClenahan of Natural Resources Canada,
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As a concept, NPulp—the revolutionary straw-pulp technology developed by Taiwan-based YFY Corp.—is the type of feel good sustainability story that attendees of the 16th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference in Washington, D.C. want to hear more
Green Building Canada interviewed Dan Powell, owner of EarthTek, a New Mexico-based compressed earth block machine manufacturer, to get the details on some of compressed earth blocks’ (CEB) many benefits and the advantages and disadvantages of interlock blocks and horizontal
