Most of us in the construction industry believe in the idea of LEED principles, but the backbreaking paperwork and documentation is an enormous hassle. It also seems really silly to use tons of paper to track your progress and submit reports, when the whole point of LEED is to reduce waste and save energy. Now, there's a software that allows you to track your project's LEED project and create instantaneous reports without the use of paper right from the job site.
Read more
Cement has been around for a long time, historically since the Ancient Babylonians and Assyrians, whom used bitumen to bind materials together. In modern times, Portland cement has been the leader in the cement industry since it was created in Britain in the mid-1700s. Annually, Portland cement manufactures roughly 76.7 million metric tons of cement in the United States alone. There’s no telling how much they’ve manufactured for China, who has used more concrete in the past 3 years than the US did in the entire 20th Century!
Read more
Like it or not pre-manufactured modular construction is coming to America. It has been used in other countries as fast inexpensive housing, but that doesn't make it bad. When most people think of modular housing they think of shipping containers, ugly squares and rectangles, trailer parks in the sky. But that stigma is about to change.
Read more
The U.S. Green Building Council is constantly updating and changing how it scores and interprets how LEED points are calculated and distributed. Three recent interpretation rulings have been added to LEED’s addenda database.
Read more