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GreenLinks
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The Center for the Built Environment
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 is a place where prominent industry leaders and internationally recognized researchers cooperate to produce substantial, holistic, and far-sighted research on…
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Pacific Coast Builder’s Conference (PCBC)
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 workshops. PCBC connects all the heavyweights from homebuilding, land development, architecture, and home products at one supercharged event. Education, innovation,…
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Who Knew Straw Could Cost $1.125 Million?
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 “green” construction projects. Built a decade before today’s green building vogue, Oakland’s only straw bale house has emerged as a…