Tag: Sustainable Buildings
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DIRTT cleans up in Canadian IPO
DIRTT’s Phoenix factory DIRTT Environmental Solutions, a designer and producer of pre-fab interiors profiled by Sustainable Industries in 2012, announced last week that it had completed its initial public offering (IPO) worth $45 million at $3 per share. The stock is now trading under the symbol DRT on the Toronto Stock Exchange. DIRTT (which stands for Doing it Right…
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Clinton discusses ‘building the kind of future we want’
Hillary Rodham Clinton For many, a major highlight of last week’s Greenbuild 2013 conference in Philadelphia was seeing an up-close and personal keynote from Hillary Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state – and arguably the most likely contender for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Despite criticizing the nation’s political atmosphere, saying “we have to overcome…
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Information is power
John Knott The screen saver on John Knott’s computer rotates through images of his seven (and soon-to-be eight) grandchildren. It’s a constant reminder to the third-generation builder of the impact of his life’s work on future generations. Knott participated in the closing plenary of Tuesday’s Materials and Human Health Summit at the U.S. Green Building…
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The ‘retrofit triangle’
Every successful resource efficiency retrofit involves an ongoing integration of three normally distinct and separate functions: operations, technology and finance. In spite of all of the tangib…
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Putting new energy use metrics to the test
New Buildings Institute (NBI) has developed the first ever set of plug load energy use metrics, aimed at allowing commercial building owners and managers to more easily gain insight into their b…