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By Scott Moffatt (PPG) - A 33-story skyscraper made of nearly one million square feet of glass opened October 1 in Pittsburgh and is designed to be one of the world’s greenest office buildings.

The funny thing about good design is it’s easy to miss. The best designs simultaneously add more than the sum of their parts and fade into their surroundings.

The age of transparency is here, and it’s a major focus of green building standards and codes, said Aaron Smith, director of sustainable building solutions for ASSA ABLOY Door Security Solutions.

The venue for Executive Committee and Annual General Meeting of The All India Glass Manufacturers' Federation (AIGMF)* was Paharpur Business Centre, LEED Platinum/BEE 5 star Building.

Back when artificial illumination was a costly commodity (think whale oil and early electricity systems), it was incumbent upon architects to plan for the optimization of natural daylighting into their building designs.

Biophilic design is an approach to architecture that seeks to connect building occupants more closely to nature.

Sustainable living has become a global movement and consequently a rapidly increasing industry. We are constantly reminded of our destructive carbon footprint and are also provided with a range of solutions.

Learn to see daylighting in a different light with SageGlass - Green building has moved past the fad stage to enduring trend status, placing increased pressure on architects, engineers and other building professionals to stay abreast of new…

The City University of New York's (CUNY's) Borough of Manhattan Community College's opened the Miles and Shirley Fiterman Hall at the beginning of the 2012-13 academic year.

Glass is fundamental to ‘green’ building revolution, according to ArbabPITTSBURGH, April 30, 2012 – Glass is vital to buildings, but glass technology is vital to “green” buildings – that was the message from Mehran Arbab, PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG)…

Glenn Miner, PPG director, construction, flat glass, said that Solarban 70XL glass is popular not just for its environmental performance, but for its color consistency as well.

In the 1950s, great minds from Monsanto Chemical Company, Walt Disney Imagineering and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came up with the ultimate "Home of the Future," a wondrous and elevated cross-shaped marvel made entirely of…

Dedicated to installing only high-performance, low-maintenance products in his homes, Michigan builder Greg Powell has seen strong sales of the Cottages at Harbor Shores Hideaway development.

Urges U.S. Senate committee to fund small business energy efficiency initiativesWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Low interest loans to help small businesses improve their energy efficiency is one of the best ways to grow jobs in rural America.

Glass and Orientation for Green Buildings: Glazing of a green building should reflect harmony of daylight and shading, views and protection, energy conservation, cost of material as well as highlight the individual character of the building.

The American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) has published a new fact sheet on daylighting and energy savings, detailing how top-lighting and side-lighting contribute to a building design that integrates natural light and can help…

The upcoming American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) Fall Conference, to be held October 10-13 in Santa Ana Pueblo (Albuquerque), N.

Supporting the U.S. Green Building Council LEED(R) Rating System(TM) criteria for recycled content, Wausau Window and Wall Systems now fabricates all of its products using aluminum extrusions exclusively from secondary billet that contain at…

Wausau Window and Wall Systems named Cyndy Workman-Snow as its architectural sales representative in New Mexico, Utah and Colorado.

Even as the dire financial news continues to dominate year-end headlines, a cascade of newly released studies and reports points to green building as one of the growing bright spots for the U.

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Southwall Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:SWTX) announced fourth quarter 2007 revenue of $8.7 million, down 5.6% from third quarter of 2007 and down 5.5% from the fourth quarter of 2006.

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is  pleased to announce that the city of Greensburg, Kansas has passed a resolution to certify  all city-owned buildings LEED® Platinum, making it the first city in the U.S. to pass  such a resolution.

It sounded at times like a meeting of Optimists, but, no, it was the seventh Congress of the World Green Building Council.

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recognized the Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc. U.S. corporate Home Office in Deerfield, Ill., with its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design(R) (LEED) designation at a Gold-level…