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HEALTH, CARE AND COMFORT River Campus Building One, for Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) in Portland, is a high-performance building with a conventional budget. The 16-story building, currently in construction, displays an innovative approach to mechanical engineering for a medical and research environment. In collaboration with developer Gerding/ Edlen and GBD Architects, Interface Engineering has met aggressive design criteria for resource conservation while paying special attention to the thermal comfort of medically fragile occupants. — Editor
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SAVING CONCRETE ENERGY With the growing awareness of the environmental harm of greenhouse gases, one major culprit in the construction industry is beginning to attract attention. The production of Portland cement, a key ingredient of concrete, releases substantial amounts of carbon dioxide (C02) — 8 percent of greenhouse gases worldwide. The United States consumes 110 million tons (100 million metric tons) of Portland cement annually and China now produces and places five times that amount.
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More Environment On the Beam with Green — Albequerque Tribune, 2006.0306How to Build a Reduced-Plastic, Polar-Bear-Sensitive House — New York Times, 2006.0305 Energy Saving: Start Small, but Start Now — Building Design, 2006.0303 Planners' Green Skills Gap — Building Design, 2006.0303 Iceland Wants an Oil Change — AIArchitect, 2006.0303 For This Architect, It's Easy Being Green — Howard County Times, 2006.0302 Diary of an Eco-Builder — Independent Digital, 2006.0301 Fund to Offer Solar 'Leases' — Red Herring, 2006.0228 IFMA Teams with Alliance to Move Sustainability Practices Forward — International Facility Management Association press release, 2006.0228 Students Hope to Build Green Dorm Near Central Campus — Stanford Daily, 2006.0227 Hartford Area Habitat for Humanity to Build First Green Home — PR Web, 2006.0226 A Precautionary Tale for the Green Building Movement — Healthy Building News, 2006.0224 RHWL Sets Standards in Sustainable Urban Regeneration — World Architecture News, 2006.0224 School of the Future — Monterey County Weekly, 2006.0223 Arup Developing Green City in China — Architectural Record, 2006.0223 Rooftops Come Alive — Monterey County Weekly, 2006.0223 On-Line Introductory Course in Renewable Energy Systems — Renewable Energy Access, 2006.0222 IRS to Provide Guidance on Energy Credit to Home Builders — Internal Revenue Service press release, 2006.0221 New York Times Pursues Light Not LEED — eOculus, 2006.0221 Studies of Ancient Climates Suggest Global Warming — UC Santa Cruz press release, 2006.0217 Greenland's Glaciers Losing Ice at Faster Rate — MSNBC, 2006.0216 Green Roof for True Nature Foods — Urban Habitat Chicago press release, 2006.0216 ASHRAE, USGBC, IESNA Partner on New Standard — U.S. Green Building Council press release, 2006.0215
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