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CEFPI and EPA Host Free IEQ Event

SAN ANTONIO — CEFPI and the EPA are offering a free one-day training session with national indoor environmental quality experts for districts interested in learning more about maintaining healthy schools.
 
The program, “Healthy Schools: Effectively Implementing an IEQ Management Program,” will take place on May 12 at the North East Independent School District in San Antonio. 

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Houston District Receives $90K Efficiency Reward

 
HOUSTON — As part of its energy efficiency incentive program, Centerpoint energy company recently awarded a Houston school district more than $93,000 for efforts to reduce its peak electricity demand.
 
Spring Independent School District received the check as a reward for the total estimated annual kilowatt-hour savings at 10 of its schools.
 
Gloria Marshall Elementary Sch

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Austin’s Tallest Building Awarded LEED Gold

AUSTIN, Texas — Not only is Thomas Properties’ Frost Tower the largest high-rise office building, it’s also the first downtown structure to receive LEED Gold certification.
 
"Achieving the USGBC’s Existing Building certification is a challenging and time-consuming process that requires a great deal of historical property performance information," says John Kelley, vice president of property management w

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NASA Goes Green

 
HOUSTON — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is typically more concerned with what happens in outer space, but NASA has taken significant steps recently to make sure it leaves behind a smaller footprint here on planet Earth.
 
A new addition to a NASA procurement office at the Lyndon B.

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