Greenprofs

With a grand opening planned for late August, the new Research Support Facility for the U.S. Department of Energy‘s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) provides a model project, created to be one of the most energy-efficient and healthy workplaces in the world. Registered with U.S. Green Building Council‘s LEED® Green Rating System, the project [...]

Curious Collection offers one of the industry’s most environmentally-friendly line-ups of premium fine papers. Four Curious Metallics’ colors contain 100% post-consumer recovered fiber and Green Power is a standard feature for the Metallics, Translucents, Skin, and Particles lines. In addition, these products are Forest Stewardship Council™ (FSC) certified. CuriousPapers.com, the North American Curious Collection website, [...]

Linetec’s Field Service team offers a new, environmentally-responsible coating system for on-site repair and restoration of architectural aluminum products’ finishes. The innovative formulation of TRINAR® Aqua air dry system (ADS) coating was developed in partnership with AkzoNobel. This new, on-site finishing option from Linetec helps preserve commercial and residential properties’ green goals, as well as [...]

Contributing to environmental and energy-efficiency goals, Tubelite Inc. offers Therml=Block™ door products with thermal barriers. These insulated doors and frames are manufactured using EcoLuminum™, a high recycled-content aluminum billet composition featuring environmentally-friendly finishes. “Therml=Block entrances dramatically reduce the transfer of hot and cold temperatures, block interior frost build-up and can be installed quickly,” says Mary [...]

Balancing functionality, aesthetics and green goals, the Business Instructional Facility at the University of Illinois College of Business not only meets students’ needs for classroom, group collaboration, study and gathering space, it also incorporates industry-leading sustainability measures that students lobbied for at the outset of the building’s design. The University’s eye to the environment earned [...]

Bharatbook added a new report on “Global Biofuel Market Analysis” which gives the growth prospects of the biofuel industry in the developing countries. By RNCOS.    Global Biofuel Market Analysis    The global biofuel industry has been witnessing sustainable growth and developments for the past few years in the backdrop of depleting fossil fuels and [...]

Bharatbook added a new report on “Deep Research Report on Global and China PV Inverter Industry” which gives overview of Global and China PV Inverter Industry.    Deep Research Report on Global and China PV Inverter Industry    2010 Deep Research Report on Global and China PV Inverter Industry was professional and depth research report [...]

Wausau, Wis. — Lance Premeau, Kolbe’s product and market analyst, successfully passed the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design® (LEED) Green Associate Certification. The achievement is part of the company’s ongoing initiative to support and educate customers’ green design and building projects. Professional certification for LEED unites leaders from across the [...]

Considered the most expensive building of its kind, the $437 million Los Angeles Police Administration Building also is among the greenest, thanks in part to Wausau Window and Wall Systems. In May 2010, the building earned Gold certification under the LEED® Green Building Rating System™ for new construction. The LAPD Headquarters project also was recognized [...]

Science and beauty don’t often intersect, but when they do, the results can be stunning, or joyous, or artful: all of which have been used to describe the recently opened Auraria Science Building. Contributing to the structure’s praise-worthy façade design, glazing contractor J.R. Butler and Wausau Window and Wall Systems supported the building’s energy-efficient performance [...]