2013

C.W. Driver Breaks Ground on Manhattan Beach Library

4 mins

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — The new 22,000-square-foot Manhattan Beach Public Library is currently under construction after C.W. Driver, with offices in Irvine, Calif., broke ground on the facility in August. The $19 million project includes demolishing the existing 43-year-old facility (about half the size of the new structure) and replacing it with the new, two-story facility. Los Angeles-based Harley Ellis Devereaux Architects designed the facility, and the master plan was created by Johnson Favaro, based in Culver City, Calif. It is designed to meet LEED Gold standards.

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Goats Hired to Clean Up O’Hare

3 mins

CHICAGO — As part of a Sustainable Vegetation Management initiative, officials at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in August launched an environmental pilot program that uses goats, sheep, llamas and wild burros to eat the overgrown grass and cattails at the far northeastern corner of the 8,000-acre airport.

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Mike Thomas

1 mins

Mike Thomas has been named vice president and business development director at Environmental Systems Design Inc. (ESD), an international leader in the consulting-engineering design of high-performance building systems. Thomas will be responsible for sales, business development, thought leadership and client relation strategies for the firm, in particular in ESD’s commercial, institutional, health care and science practices.

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Eco-friendly Ceiling Panels

1 mins

CertainTeed Ceilings is boosting the sustainability of its Ecophon acoustical fiberglass ceiling panels with the addition of 3RD Technology, a fiberglass manufacturing method that combines a high-recycled content with a renewable plant-based binding agent. The new binder significantly reduces the environmental impact of the Ecophon product line, having the equivalent effect of removing more than 800 vehicles from roads, according to the company.

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USGBC Predicts Green Building to Represent Half U.S. Construction

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WASHINGTON — The USGBC released a new report, LEED in Motion: People and Progress, which shows that green building may represent more than half of all commercial and institutional construction by 2016. This is the first of three reports in the LEED in Motion series and it specifically examines individuals and organizations that are driving and benefitting from green building and using graphics, charts and other tools to showcase a positive outcome.

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Mark Mihelich

1 mins

San Diego-based Stellar Solar, a California commercial and residential solar integrators that started in 1998, announced the addition of sales professional  to its sales team. Mihelich has been a top performer in the San Diego solar industry in sales and sales management for the past five years. His hiring comes at a time when Stellar Solar is experiencing the most growth in the company’s history.

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Kitchen Ventilation Systems

1 mins

Greenheck’s Vari-Flow integrated kitchen ventilation systems allow foodservice managers and building owners to reduce energy costs by more precisely modulating exhaust and supplying airflows to match cooking operation demands. Temperature sensors located in the hoods’ capture area are directly exposed to quick changes in cooking activity, resulting in a five-times faster response to cooking load changes. This feature, coupled with fan-speed turndown of 50 percent and high-efficiency Vari-Green motors, offers total energy savings in terms of electrical, heating and cooling costs.

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