Sources: Webcor Builders, San Francisco; CP staff The Contra Costa County Administration Building and Redevelopment Project in Martinez, Calif. recently became the world’s first Total Resource Use and Efficiency (TRUE) Gold for construction-certified public project, setting a new sustainability benchmark for such work the world over. The facility rose on the site of a 12-story county building and jail, demolition of…
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New EPA guidance frames Buy Clean construction materials label program
Source: Environmental Protection Agency; CP staff The Environmental Protection Agency has outlined an implementation plan for a program and publicly accessible registry providing data on greenhouse gas emissions attending principal building and infrastructure project inputs. The EPA Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials will define parameters and thresholds informing the White House Federal Buy Clean Initiative, which aims…
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