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  • Lawrence Livermore Engineering Team Breakthrough in Solar Energy Research

    The LLNL Materials Engineering Division (MED) research team has made breakthroughs experimenting with black metals. These nanostructured metals are designed to have low reflectivity and high absorption of visible and infrared light. The MED research team recently published their black metals research results in a cover-page article in the May issue of Applied Physics Letters…

  • San Francisco Exploratorium Shoots for LEED Gold and the World’s Largest Net-Zero Museum

    The historic Exploratorium, a science museum in San Francisco, California, has been working on its $300 million project to relocate from the Palace of Fine Arts to Piers 15 and 17 at the heart of the Bay Area’s waterfront Embarcadero. It is the first major development to be undertaken on the waterfront since the San…

  • Leadership in Sustainable Manufacturing: Ecovative Design

    This is a business feature worth sharing. Ecovative Design features a shining example for manufacturing building materials on a sustainable basis. It grows the insulating products it manufactures and sells.

  • Vantem Panels Introduces Net-Zero Kit House: SmartHomze

    Vermont-based Vantem Panels, one of the United States’ first producers of SIPs (structural insulated panels) and one of three American producers of urethane panels, has released the first affordable net-zero energy kit homes: SmartHomze. With an estimated $150 per square foot cost of construction (not including permits, site work, or foundation), SmartHomze are significantly more…

  • Green Roof At Penn. Children’s Hospital Contributes To Leed Potential

    “Incorporation of natural spaces like green roofs helps Penn State Hershey fulfill our mission of providing comprehensive care to sick or injured children and their families, care that is focused on them and designed to help them heal not only physically, but spiritually and emotionally as well,” said Penn State Hershey Medical Center director of…