August 2010

Green Bay city planners have approved a land-use change to allow construction of a Veterans Affairs clinic on the citys northeast side.

NEW YORK — Most Manhattan office buildings are designed for paper pushers, but there is a new factory running at the end of a long dim corridor on the fifth floor of the Empire State Building. Here machines are whirring, a furnace is roaring, and dozens of blue-collar workers are bustling about. They are setting up to dismantle the building’s 6,514 double-hung window frames, to reuse the glass …

Scott Adams narrates the difficulties of building a “green” house: Green building – Scott Adams – Sustainable architecture – Business – Green

Jessica Shankleman, BusinessGreen , Tuesday 24 August 2010 at 12:12:00 Delayed construction work starts on Merseyside’s Green Energy Training Centre for microgeneration technologies Construction work is finally kicking off on the UK’s first Green Energy Training Centre on Merseyside, which is aiming to boost the number of skilled contractors qualified to install microgeneration technologies …

Radnor Townships Willows Cottage played host to a Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC) event last week in which attendees from around the region watched a geothermal well-drilling demonstration and learned about the rehabilitation of the cottage.

An anonymous reader writes “Scott Adams built himself a new house with the goal of making it as ‘green’ as possible, and detailed his experience for those interested in following in his missteps. Quoting: ‘… So the architect and later your building engineer, too each asks you to sign a document saying you won’t sue them when beavers eat a load-bearing wall and your entire family is crushed …

PV Crystalox Solar blow adds to gloom in green energy sector Crystalox boss insists group can compete effectively The tough environment being faced by many companies in the green energy field was highlighted again today when a British solar power company reported a huge downturn in profits for the first half of the year. A 40% slump in the global price of silicon wafers sent Oxford-based PV …

Radnor Townships Willows Cottage played host to a Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC) event last week in which attendees from around the region watched a geothermal well-drilling demonstration and learned about the rehabilitation of the cottage.

A soaring new office tower in New York would disturb views of the Empire State Building and diminish the signature symbol of the city’s skyline, the famous skyscraper’s managers said on Monday at city council hearings.