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Building-integrated Photovoltaics Expected to Play a Larger Role in Making Buildings Green

Construction Dive

Solar energy is expected to play a larger role in making buildings green in the not-too-distant future. Nanomarkets LC believes the worldwide market for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) will skyrocket from approximately $2.1 billion by 2015. billion now to roughly $7.5 ” Read more.

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Top 10 green building products for 2015

BD+C

released its annual Top-10 Green Building Products list. Last week, during the Greenbuild show in New Orleans, BuildingGreen Inc.

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Outcome-Based Approach Approved for the 2015 IgCC, But How Extensively Will Designers and Others Use It?

Construction Dive

Designers will have more flexibility to innovate and facilitate more energy-efficient buildings across America now that the outcome-based provision in the 2015 International Green Construction Code (IgCC) has been approved, but it remains to be seen just how much influence the new provision will have across the industry.

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Unfit planning system means 4,700-year wait for onshore wind

Construction Enquirer

The current planning system will fail to deliver the Government’s ambitions to build infrastructure to meet net zero goals and housing needs. Progress in England was stalled in 2015 when planning laws were changed to make it more difficult to gain permission for new onshore wind turbines – in what was effectively a ban.

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Green building councils in 62 countries expect 60% of their work to be green by 2015

BD+C

More than half of the respondents to a survey of members of the Green Building Council in 62 countries expect green projects to comprise 60% of their work by 2015. The green-building demand is likely to grow because of its benefits for business, the study found. ( [link] ).

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Zero Energy Workforce Housing for $200,000

Civil + Structural Engineer

— Join Green Builder Media on Wednesday, July 17 at 2:00 ET for a free webinar on building net zero energy ready homes at an affordable pricepoint. Howard Building Science is building beautiful net zero energy ready homes in Granite Falls, N.C., Lake City, Colo. for around $200,000. Click here to reserve your seat.

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World’s tallest vegetated façade to sprout in Sri Lanka [slideshow]

BD+C

When the 46-story Clearpoint Residences condo tower officially opens in late 2015, it will be the world''s tallest vertical garden. All 164 units in the building will come with a spacious garden terrace, complete with lush vegetation and a self-sustaining, automatic drop irrigation system. Body Image: read more.