Wastewater Reclamation, Recycling & Reuse

The new concept of polished concrete floors is both modern and beautiful. This is best accomplished by wet grinding and polishing of the cement...

Green Building Product Underfoot

San Antonio schools install 340,000 square feet of Porous Pave The North East Independent School District (NEISD), San Antonio, Texas, used Porous Pave XL to...

Inclement Weather

Weather events can wreck construction sites and timelines. In fact, many contractors lament it is the leading cause of project delays.  Inclement weather can create...

It’s Daylight Savings Time: Save Big on Natural Lighting with Smart...

Commercial property owners of hotels, resorts, condominiums, and apartment buildings hammered by the rising cost of electricity, have turned to solar in growing numbers...

Roof Hatches

Roof hatches are a common building component that are used to access the roof for maintenance purposes, such as air treatment systems, air conditioning...

Dust, Noise, or Vibration

Increased awareness of environmental issues around demolition and construction sites has resulted in growing numbers of local complaints by nearby residents—especially when visible dust...

Close Encounters

I remember getting a call one day from my safety director who was working with our crew in Texas. His exact words to me were,...
EMBODIED CARBON

It’s Time for the Building Industry to Cut Down on Embodied...

Climate change is the fundamental design problem of our time; not education, not urban sprawl, not disease, not justice. The threat climate change poses...
PNC Tower

LEED Platinum-certified Tower at PNC Plaza

The 33-story LEED Platinum-certified Tower at PNC Plaza has been touted as the “world’s greenest office tower” and stands as the showpiece of PNC’s...

Cresset Chemical: 75 Years

Ohio in the mid-to-late 1940s was bustling, with USA metros growing as fast as the businesses on Main Street. It was in Weston, Ohio, 1946,...