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GSA Recommends LEED For All GSA Buildings

May 29, 2013

This week, the Green Building Advisory Committee established by the General Services Administration (GSA), officially recommended to GSA that the LEED green building certification system be used for all GSA buildings as the best measure of building efficiency. The full article is available for review on the GSA website. LEED® is the most widely recognized…

NASA Administration Building 4494 Achieves LEED Gold

May 20, 2013

The NASA Administration building 4494 is an existing building that was undergoing a major renovation. Formerly, the building was used as a railroad-shipping depot for ordinance in World War II, a storage facility, a fitness center and exercise facility, and Children’s Day Care Center. An all-women workforce laid the original exterior terracotta block walls in…

SEA Expeditionary Resource Efficiency Managers (eREMs) Help the U.S. Army Achieve Net Zero Goals through Composting at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait

Waste reduction, force protection and conservation of resources are just a few of many reasons for composting. The added benefit is that it helps the Army reach it’s Net Zero Goals for providing a nutrient-rich material that can be used to fertilize plants and avoid having to use fertilizers. These compost materials are collected from...

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