Articles Tagged with ''sustainable design ''

The time has come for a roof to last nearly the life of a building. Duro-Last, Inc. is announcing a sustainable, 50-year commercial, low-slope roofing system that significantly lowers replacement costs and reduces building materials entering the waste stream.

Rainwater mitigation and insulating goals can both be achieved in low-slope or flat roofs with optimized, project-specific tapered polyisocyanurate insulation panel designs and systems.

Nexii, the sustainable construction company utilizes around 99% of building materials.

Armstrong World Industries, Inc. and Irving Consumer Products announced a partnership between their respective Macon, Georgia, facilities designed to improve both companies’ environmental footprints.

To meet the project's numerous design goals and performance requirements, Tubelite Inc. worked closely with the design and building team. In addition to Tubelite, WashU's 86,500-square-foot McKelvey Hall project was supported with products and services from Wausau Window and Wall Systems, Viracon and Linetec.

Last spring, LafargeHolcim Ltd.’s $3.4 billion blockbuster acquisition of Firestone Building Products regenerated the conversation about companies delivering innovating and sustainable building solutions on multiple continents. 

//3877 announced the addition of Architectural Associate Kate Janik to the firm. A recent graduate of the Catholic University of America with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a minor in sustainability, Kate brings a fresh perspective and a technical skillset to the expanding design team.

When Very Severe Hail requirements were introduced to the roofing industry, it was as if all hail was about to break loose!

Vitro Architectural Glass announced that it has updated its online Glass Education Center website with a series of three new articles that address trending topics relating to sustainability, including a comprehensive review of embodied carbon, a discussion of biophilia and biophilic design and a review of green building codes and code organizations.

There's no other event that brings together this unique set of individuals -–government agencies, contractors, the private sector, architects, scientists and more -– to improve the built environment.