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University of Iowa Voxman Music Building

Designing for Resiliency and LEED Gold

November 23, 2016
Designed for sustainability and the highest acoustic performance, the $152 million project is targeting LEED for New Construction Gold certification
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11-7-16 Living Sustainable

Sustainability Redefined through Resilient Communities

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Daniel Overbey
November 7, 2016
The discourse regarding resilient design is evolving.
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IMU

Campus Building Achieves LEED Silver

November 1, 2016
As the first building designed under Loyola Marymount University’s Campus Master Plan, the Life Sciences Building sets the pace for modern, sustainable design at the university
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Wall Systems

Case Study: Multi-Family Passive Housing

Prescription for Passive
October 27, 2016
Multi-family building demonstrates a simple and easy recipe to achieve Passive House levels of energy efficiency
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metal roofing

The Sustainable Metal Roofing Contractor

High-performance metal roofing systems that will last can only be installed by a field crew that embodies the best of craftsmanship.
Jim Hoff
October 21, 2016
This month’s focus on metal in Roofing Contractor provides a great opportunity to look at the sustainability of one of the oldest roofing systems.
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Pond Lake

Project Overcomes Requirements To Achieve Gold

October 19, 2016
Two corporations created a plan for a building that combined the NYSHCR 9% tax credit program and the DOH's licensed Enriched Housing Program for frail seniors – the first of its kind in New York
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sustainble roofing research

Hats Off to the RCMA! RCMA Advances Roofing Research

Organized peer-reviewed research in roofing tended to drift for almost a decade … until now.
Jim Hoff
September 6, 2016
When I first got involved in the roofing industry in the 1980s, one of the most important events for researchers like myself was a series of technical conferences co-sponsored by the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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Oberlin Hotel

Innovative Architecture and Green Technology

September 2, 2016
The Hotel at Oberlin was designed to be one of the most environmentally sustainable hotels in the world
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sustainable roofing

Selling the Sustainability of Roof Underlayments

Jim Hoff
August 3, 2016
This month we shine the spotlight on one of the fastest-growing categories of roofing products: roof underlayments.
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ROCKFON Pool

Aquatic Center Relies on Ceiling to Create Sustainable Facility

July 27, 2016
Helping create an attractive, functional and sustainable facility, acoustic stone wool ceiling systems were installed throughout the new space
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