Author: LEED Blogger
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Innovative Solar Systems to become IPP in all 50 states
Innovative Solar Systems LLC (ISS) has become one of the largest developers of Utility Scale Solar Farms in the last decade and has now announced that it will become an Independent Power Producer (IPP) in all 50 states. Developing and building large scale solar farms in the United States isRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Home Built out of Repurposed Concrete Blocks
As you’re probably well aware, concrete has a huge carbon footprint and what’s worse, a lot of it gets discarded each year. Given these facts, it’s nice to come across the new project by Australian firm Archier, which recently built a family home using recycled concrete blocks. The home is called Sawmill House and is…
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Green Building Initiative Announces Start of Public Comment Period on Revised ANSI Standard
GBI 01-201X will provide compliance requirements for the next version of Green Globes® for New Construction expected to be released in 2016Click here to download the full press release as a PDF Portland, OR – (September 8, 2015) The Green Building Initiative’s (GBI) 32-member Consensus Body today released for public comment a revision to GBI’s American…
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Sensor to Detect Corrosion in Concrete Structures
Device can identify risks when weaknesses first appear. More…
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Low Loss Sunlight to Energy Conversion
Currently available solar panel arrays still have the drawback of loosing lots of heat in the sunlight to energy conversion process, because of the thermodynamic inefficiencies of the process of converting the incoming energy to power. This could soon be a thing of the past though, since a team of scientists at the University of…