The sustainable and green building movement is more than cutting down on construction waste and using sustainable building materials like bamboo, recycled or reclaimed woods or plastics, or using energy efficient appliances or systems. You may have even chosen to...
Sustainable Green Building
How to Use Prefabrication to Reduce Construction Waste
Traditional construction materials and methods and time-tested, reliable, and easy to implement on any jobsite for any project. But constructing a building, beam by beam, in an open outdoor environment, is an arduous and often wasteful task. The construction industry...
Carbon Footprint Reduction in Commercial Developments
The building an construction industry, and specifically commercial buildings, have the largest amount of global carbon emissions, as well as a large energy demand. The industry has been working diligently over many years to clean up and reduce its carbon footprint....
Implementing Green Roofs in Urban Commercial Spaces
The building and construction industry is the leading producer of pollution worldwide. That’s not an award the industry is particularly proud of, and construction companies have been working to reduce carbon emissions over the decades. Practices like sustainable and...
Water Conservation Strategies in Commercial Construction
A cleaner, greener world starts from the ground up. Many commercial (as well as residential buildings have made green building practices like green building methods and the use of easily renewable or recycled building materials to get a jumpstart on applying green...
Sustainable Building Materials to Include in Your Next Build
What goes into building? Finding the perfect property, preparing that property, drawing up plans, gathering permits, employing the right contractor and subcontractors, and finally getting started, right? Hold on, wait a minute. There’s a lot more than that! You need...