All Entries in the "USGBC" Category

USGBC’s LEED Green Building Program Use Falls

The Allen Matkins/CTG/Green Building Insider Green Building Survey takes a poll of 1,600 design and building professionals from the U.S. every year for the last 4 years.
Not surprisingly, green construction represents the fastest growing sector of the building industry.  And support for it as a practice continues to be high as 92% of those surveyed [...]

Insurance Discounts for Green Homes

There are two types of green insurance policies for homeowners.

One covers buildings that already meet stringent efficiency and sustainability standards. The other offers the option to replace any losses incurred on the property with more environmentally sensitive materials.

Green Retrofit Chicago Conference

It’s great to build green homes, commercial office buildings, schools and city halls, but what about the stock of millions and millions of existing buildings that aren’t green or energy efficient?  Tearing down or ‘de-constructing’ buildings can be green but what if you could just upgrade the building with modern green building technology?  Green Retrofit [...]