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Parting Shot: A Second Chance
A $42-million green affordable housing complex and service space in West Harlem is currently underway, made possible by The Fortune Society, a respected and effective alternative to incarceration and reentry.
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Web Exclusive: Sustainable Design Technology and LEED 2009
Informed decisions early in the design process are critical to achieving the highest levels of efficiency – a significant goal of LEED 2009. Sustainable design and analysis software technology, including building information modeling (BIM), provides opportunities to support the new credit weighting emphases on energy and emissions.
by Erin Rae Hoffer AIA, LEED AP
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Web Exclusive: Walking the Talk
For 38 years, Greenpeace has been campaigning to safeguard the environment and neutralize global warming. When it came time to renovate a new office space in Washington, D.C., the deputy executive director of Greenpeace USA set out to make sure that the organization was “walking the talk.”
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Web Exclusive: Paving the Road to NuLu
Like many cities, downtown Louisville fell into disrepair as residents and businesses migrated to the suburbs. Today, thanks to the popularity of The Green Building, a 19th century warehouse modernized with 21st century green building techniques and technology, what was once a federally classified distressed area is becoming a burgeoning city center.
by Douglas V. Pierson AIA
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"Superior Technologies Yarn" to be Manufactured by AquafilUSA
Aquafil USA, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Monticello International, the newly formed company which acquired the assets of Thomas Industries, to manufacture all nylon yarns previously produced at the Cross Plains Boulevard plant under the brand “ Superior Yarn Technology.”
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Mannington's Virtual Library Earns Best of NEOCON Award
At NeoCon 2009, Mannington Commercial has won a Best of NeoCon Silver award for its innovative online Virtual Library. The first of its kind in the floorcovering industry, the Virtual Library offers a 3-dimensional immersive product library experience, showing Mannington’s full range of carpet and hard surface floorcoverings on any computer with Web access.
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Editor’s Note: Experimenting with Social Media
A recent poll on ED+C’s homepage reports that 90 percent of you are using some type of social media outlet, including LinkedIn (28 percent plus), Facebook (27 percent plus) and Twitter (16 percent plus). A total of 17 percent, including me, indicated that they use other or all of the above outlets. Still, 10 percent checked “What’s Social Media?”
by Michelle Hucal LEED AP
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Letter to the Editor: July 2009
The June ED+C cover photo, usefully juxtaposes Rio Tinto’s new headquarters in their Daybreak development in South Jordan, Utah, against the background of Kennecott Utah Copper’s Bingham Canyon Mine waste rock dumps. Rio Tinto, as one of the world’s largest mining companies, owns both Kennecott and Daybreak. ...
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