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LEED GOLD ELDER LIVING As "green" principles begin to take hold in U.S. firms, those architects who have been following them the longest are demonstrating a refined and diverse understanding of what "sustainability" means to a building's occupants. For the NBBJ design team for the Washington State Veterans' Home, sustaining the elderly inhabitants' quality of life was a key component of the design intent.
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SUSTAINABLE HOUSING PROTOTYPES At the United Nations Habitat World Urban Forum in Vancouver, British Columbia, in June 2006, Living Steel announced the results of its International Competition for Sustainable Housing. Living Steel is a consortium of steel companies and associations that has teamed with the UN to find solutions to worldwide housing shortages.
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More Environment Energy-Efficient Homes the Wave of the Future — News 8 Austin, 2006.0809UK Energy Rules Leave Managers Cold — IT Week, 2006.0809 Homes Going Lean, Mean and Green — CNN, 2006.0808 USG to Provide Gypsum Recycling Options — USG Press Release, 2006.0808 GM Opens LEED-Gold Certified Manufacturing Facility — The Manufacturer, 2006.0808 Tax Incentives Go Green — BusinessWeek, 2006.0808 New Green Carpet Adhesive from Bentley Prince Street — Interior Design, 2006.0808 Green Offices Are Cool — Gulf News, 2006.0808 Commercial Demand for Green Development Grows — GreenBiz, 2006.0807 USGBC Partners with Clinton Climate Initiative — USGBC Press Release, 2006.0807 Building Blocks — Boston Business Journal, 2006.0807 Green Building Movement Yielding Tax Incentives — Architectural Record, 2006.0807 Going 'Green' Can Turn a Bottom Line Black — News-Record, 2006.0806 Going, Going, Green — Washington Post, 2006.0806 Creating a Self-Contained World — New York Times, 2006.0806 Green House — Orange County Register, 2006.0805 Sustainable Design Starts with You — Miami Herald-Tribune, 2006.0805 Contractor Turns New Page in Green Building — BDC, 2006.0804 How Green Is Your Commercial Construction Project? — Orlando Business Journal, 2006.0804 Green Factor Would Change Urban Landscape Design — Seattle Daily Journal, 2006.0803 Dorms of the Future — CNN, 2006.0803 Wind Turbines on the Parapet — BuildingGreen.com, 2006.0803 Looking for the "Teflon Chemical" in Building Materials — BuildingGreen.com, 2006.0803 Outdoor Illumination Selected for ASLA Green Roof — BDC, 2006.0802 Silver Is the New Green — Colorado Daily, 2006.0802 SEDA-COG Plans Energy Center — Daily Item, 2006.0802 Logan's Terminal A Goes Green — Boston Globe, 2006.0802 Cities Team Up to Fight Global Warming — ENN, 2006.0802 Green Building 101: Indoor Environmental Quality — Inhabitat, 2006.0802 Building an Eco-Toilet in China — Ohmy News, 2006.0802 Radical Urban Housing Project Wins Environment Award — PR Web, 2006.0801 Defining the Environmental Workforce — GreenBiz, 2006.0801 House Report Calls for Changes to Environmental Law — ENN, 2006.0801 Life in the Straw — Hawke's Bay Today, 2006.0801 Going Green Turns to Gold for Developers — The Globe and Mail, 2006.0801 'I'll Take The Hemp Chair': Home Design Goes Green — MTV, 2006.0801 BPA to Help Propel National Plan for Energy Efficiency — Bonneville Power Administration press release, 2006.0731 Logan Airport Becomes Home to First LEED-Certified Terminal — FacilitiesNet, 2006.0731 Three from MIT Envision Grow-Your-Own Home — PhysOrg, 2006.0731 Solar Roofing at Tahoe Center for Environmental Science — Open Energy Corp Press Release, 2006.0731 The Building That Grew Itself — Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0731 Just the Place for Homegrown Ecological Museum Park — The Age, 2006.0729 House Proposes Green Building Legislation — Steel Works, 2006.0728 Going Green — Forbes, 2006.0727 Chicago's Green Light for Permits — BusinessWeek, 2006.0727 Building 'Green' Reaches a New Level — USA Today, 2006.0726 Central Valley Housing Boom Plays Role in the Big Heat — San Francisco Chronicle, 2006.0726 Taking LEED in Oregon City — Clackamas Review, 2006.0724 Black & Veatch Opens Rain Garden — Revitalization Online, 2006.0720 Going Greener than Green — The Vancouver Sun, 2006.0707
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