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Adams Homes Completes Energy Star® Qualified Home In Orlando, Florida | PRLog
www.prlog.org | 19 hours 23 minutes ago
Adams Homes Completes Energy Star® Qualified Home In Orlando, Florida. In a positive step toward improving energy efficiency and fighting climate change, Adams Homes has taken the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ENERGY STAR Challenge and completed the company's first Energy Star

ENR Construction Week: Construction Unemployment Stuck at 17.7% | ENR: Engineering News Record |
enr.construction.com | Feb 13, 2012
Late-breaking and brief items for the week ending Feb. 13, 2012.

New York City Mayor Says Green Building Codes Will Help City Meet PlaNYC Goals | News |
archrecord.construction.com | Feb 8, 2012
New York City s adoption of new green building codes are expected to result in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5% and saving $400 million by 2030, says a recently released report from the Urban Green Council, the U.S. Green Building Council s New York chapter.

New DuPont™ Building Knowledge Center Helps Builders, Contractors, Architects and Designers Address
www.prweb.com | Feb 7, 2012
DuPont Building Innovations Launches Digital Resource Featuring Industry-leading Building Science Knowledge.

Elta Fans and Ziehl-Abegg join forces
www.heatingandventilating.net | Feb 3, 2012
Elta Fans has announced a strategic alliance with Ziehl-Abegg to use the German fan giant's motors and impellers.

Banff, Alberta gets $4.4 million from Green Municipal Fund for recreation centre expansion – Daily
www.dcnonl.com | Feb 2, 2012
The Town of Banff, Alberta used $4.4 million in funding from the Green Municipal Fund (GMF) loan and grant contributions towards a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver-certified expansion of its recreation centre.

ELTA GROUP LIMITED News - Elta Fans Launch First Wave OF Products Featuring Ziehl Technology
www.eltagroup.co.uk | Jan 30, 2012
Elta Fans has announced the first in a series of phased launches of new products which will be powered by motors and impellers from Ziehl-Abegg, including the first ever fan, in the HVAC market sector, to feature the Ziehl FE2owlet impeller.

Zero Energy Buildings | SYS-CON MEDIA
www.sys-con.com | Jan 30, 2012
SYS-CON Media, NJ, The world's leading i-technology media company on breaking technology news.

High-Performance and Net-Zero Homes — Part 3 | GreenBuildingAdvisor.com
www.greenbuildingadvisor.com | Jan 25, 2012
Subtitle:  What does Code have to do with high performance? Images:  Guest Blogs During the last month we’ve had a very stimulating conversation going about design – and how some important design opportunities for improving energy

Rockwool Simplifies RockShell Specification : UK Construction News
www.build.co.uk | Jan 23, 2012
Rockwool Simplifies RockShell Specification - To support specifiers in adopting the RockShell wall system, Rockwool has developed a suite of standard interface details which are designed to optimise thermal performance and provide an 'off-the-shelf' solution for delivering low energy buildings to