Articles by GreenLinks

Edward Mazria’s non-profit organization Architecture 2030 challenges the global architecture and building community, asking them to adopt design goals of reducing fossil fuel, GHG-emissions, and energy consumption in all new construction and renovation projects. Buildings …

Self-healing concrete for safer, more durable, and greener infrastructure?  Professor Victor Li at the University of Michigan has created concrete that can bend and heal itself. A concrete material developed at the University of Michigan …

Build It Green is a non-profit membership organization that promotes healthy, energy and resource efficient building practices, and offers the GreenPoint Rating system specific to residential buildings in California. Smart Environmental Solutions from the Ground …

The Center for the Built Environment at U.C. Berkeley is a place where prominent industry leaders and internationally recognized researchers collaborate to produce substantial, holistic, and far-sighted research on buildings. Industry/University Collaborative Research Solutions CBE …

The Pacific Coast Builders Conference (PCBC) will be held on June 17 – 19, 2009 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, and will feature hundreds of product vendors and host a diverse range of speakers and …

Straw-bale construction is a building method that uses bales of straw (commonly wheat, rice, rye and oats straw) as structural elements, building insulation, or both. This construction method is commonly used in natural building or …