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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Building Transparency loads carbon accounting toolbox for Greenbuild
Sources: Building Transparency, Seattle; CMCM staff Clark Construction, Skanska USA, Turner Construction, Webcor and peers will join Building Transparency, host of the Embodied Carbon Calculator accounting tool for architectural/engineering/construction professionals, to launch contractorsCAN during the 2023 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, September 26-29, Washington, D.C. Building Transparency’s third Carbon Action Network, contractorsCAN seeks to decarbonize building projects through embodied carbon tracking,…
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Sources: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Silver Spring, Md.; CP staff
Toward the 9th annual International Concrete Sustainability Conference, May 12-14, in Cambridge, Mass., NRMCA has secured 60-plus experts to cover the latest developments in design, specification, production, testing, construction, maintenance and research of concrete as they relate to sustainability.
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