GreenFrameworks
Comprehensive Information for those in the Sustainable Energy & Construction Fields
Green Networking
- Sustainable Water Utilities
Sustainability is increasingly referenced as part of the every-day operation of water utilities; however, there is still some confusion about what being a sustainable utility actually means. This web site will help clarify the issue. - Eco-friendly, renewable Energy
This web site focuses on eco-friendly actions and includes "green" blogs and opinions on important topics such as renewable energy and sustainable construction - The U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation. - The Ecological Building Network
According to their website, this organization promotes, fosters and catalyzes the transformation of building to favor intelligent design, clean energy, and healthy materials. - American Institute of Steel Construction
Structural steel produced in the United States contains 93.3% recycled steel scrap. At the end of a building’s life, 98% of all structural steel is recycled back into new steel products with no loss of its physical properties. For more on how steel is being recycled to benefit sustainable construction efforts, please visit this site.
Welcome to GreenFrameworks
GreenFrameworks.com was established to bring together the best the web has to offer on both sustainable energy and green construction. The goal of sustainable construction is to meet human needs while preserving the environment. The Brundtland Commission defined sustainable construction as development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
The field of sustainable development can be conceptually broken into three constituent parts: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and sociopolitical sustainability.
What Construction Professionals Should Know...
An Overview of The LEED Rating System
This article was written by
Joseph Macaluso, CCC, Empire State Development for ReedConstructionData.com
A building can be green without a single standard being applied to it. In fact, to reduce costs, green buildings are often built using a rating system strictly as a guide without ever formally registering the building. Green rating systems do offer a way to measure how green a building is and can supply recognition and validation of that level of commitment.
Rating systems, standards, and guidelines can be classified into two groups: those that relate to specific building components, and those that relate to the building as a whole entity. They range from those that assess specific properties of individual building materials or system/assembly standards from established trade organizations, to those that assess the entire building’s overall environmental performance from more recently formed environmentally based organizations. The broader the assessment, the unavoidably more subjective it is.
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