Tremco introduces the GreenSave Life-Cycle Cost-Benefit Calculator from Tremco for comparing green roofs to conventional roofs. It determines the lowest cost investment for a specific roofing requirement over a specific time frame.
The calculator is useful in determining whether the initial cost of an investment is justified by reductions in future costs such as operating, maintenance, repair or replacement costs.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. offers mobile devices that have an extended battery life, including notebooks, MP3 players, digital cameras, video camcorders, multimedia phones and cellular handsets.
Devices have more energy-efficient chip and display designs, utilizing nano-scale and sensor technologies. Some features include the DRAM chip with temperature-sensors that reduce mobile phone power drain and System-on-Chips for hybrid hard drives that reduce laptop power consumption.
Roos International manufactures EnVision, a wall covering that is an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional vinyl. It is a PVC-free contract wall covering made with textural, natural fibrous polyester cellulose substrate. The product is printed with water-based inks, contains recycled and renewable content, contains no heavy metals and has minimum waste during installation.
PORTLAND — Sage Hospitality Resources is seeking LEED certification for a $118 million, environmentally sustainable conversion of the historic Meier & Frank department store.
The Denver-based hospitality company is renovating the upper nine floors of the 1908 building to create The Nines — a 334-room hotel, which will become part of Starwood’s luxury collection hotels.
WILMINGTON, Del. — DuPont’s enhanced Tyvek weather barrier system that is designed to provide weather protection and insulation for commercial-building envelopes will help projects achieve points toward LEED-certification by improving energy efficiency, according to the company.
WASHINGTON — America’s colleges entered the fight against global warming this summer after more than 280 college and university presidents pledged to neutralize campus greenhouse gas emissions.
The presidents of 284 higher-education institutions signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment at a leadership summit in Washington that was organized by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and environmental advocacy groups, ecoAmerica and Second Nature.
HOUSTON — The Greater Houston Partnership hosted the first of two symposiums designed to educate business leaders about environmentally sustainable buildings.
GHP — the city’s premiere advocacy group and informational clearinghouse — attracted several hundred business leaders, developers and architects to the event, which featured USGBC President Rick Fedrizzi and Houston Mayor Bill White.
WASHINGTON — The Forest Stewardship Council-US is calling for project submissions for the third annual Designing & Building with FSC Award, which will be presented at the 2007 USGBC GreenBuild International Conference and Exposition in Chicago in November.
The FSC annual award recognizes building projects that have furthered responsible forest management through the incorporation of FSC-certified wood products.
Greenbelt, Md. — NASA broke ground on a $56 million eco-friendly Exploration Sciences Building at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center here.
The 265,500-square-foot research-laboratory and office building, which is registered for LEED Silver certification, will house personnel from the astrophysics and solar systems exploration divisions and the office of the directorate.
