Articles Tagged with ''environmental impacts''

The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment is awarding ten design projects with its highest honor—the COTE Top Ten Awards— for their significant achievements in holistic sustainability and advancing climate action and equity.

Armstrong World Industries has committed to meeting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “Clean Air in Buildings Challenge,” a call to action for organizational leaders and building owners and operators to assess their indoor air quality and make ventilation, air filtration, and air cleaning improvements to help keep building occupants safer.

This actionable climate strategy provides a roadmap for reaching net zero emissions within the decade, and reinforces FCA’s ongoing commitment to strategies and best practices that work towards an inherently sustainable built environment.

The National Institute of Building Sciences recently convened 30 building industry executives to discuss social equity and goals to steer the future of the U.S. built environment workforce.

HALIO announced its largest exhibition as part of the SK Pavilion, exhibit #16955, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV., located inside the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, on January 5-8, 2023

If PVC is categorized as hazardous waste, the EPA would have to develop a comprehensive framework to ensure its treatment, storage and disposal. This would likely be very costly, burdensome and particularly hit small businesses hard.

The Code Council continues its thought leadership in the global discussion about the role of the built environment in expected future climate conditions.

Metl-Span announced that it recently achieved an Environmental Product Declaration for CF wall and roof panels.

Despite evidence of changing climate, in the United States it is still common for building project teams to reference U.S. Climate Normals derived from three consecutive decades of historic data for broad-based climate analyses and to utilize Typical Meteorological Year datasets for building energy modeling exercises.

AKF Group has appointed Dennis Boone as Senior Director of Smart Buildings. In this role, Dennis is responsible for expanding AKF’s Smart Building Consulting practice by leveraging our suite of Integrated Services.