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Green Building Initiative - The GBI is the US Licensee of Green Globes
The Green Building Initiative (GBI) provides sustainability assessment and certification services to help you reduce operational costs, qualify for tax incentives, meet federal mandates, or increase the marketability of your buildings. The efforts of the GBI staff exceeded our expectations. We could not have asked for better service. Thanks for guiding us through the certification process.
Green Globes is a web-based program for green building guidance and certification that includes an onsite assessment by a third party. Backed by excellent customer support, Green Globes offers a streamlined and affordable alternative to LEED as a way to advance the overall environmental performance and sustainability of commercial buildings. The program has modules supporting new construction - Green Globes for New Construction ( NC ), existing buildings – Green Globes for Continual Improvement of Existing Buildings ( CIEB ), and Healthcare buildings – Green Globes CIEB for Healthcare . It is suitable for a wide range of buildings from large and small offices, multi-family structures, hospitals, and institutional buildings such as courthouses, schools, and universities.
Green Globes: The Green Building Initiative
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Biomimicry Design Portal
Nature's elegant solutions to building challenges include the Scots pine's adaptive growth, the thorny devil's passive water collection, and a leaf's on-site energy production. AskNature can help you solve your design challenges. Learn more
Cambridge Econometrics Home Page
Cambridge Econometrics: providing specialist support to professional service companies Cambridge Econometrics offers a wide range of skills and expertise with which to support the work of professional service companies. Please download this brochure for more information. Cambridge Econometrics is an independent consultancy that applies economic modelling and data analysis techniques to the needs of clients in business and government. We are a leading independent economic forecasting group with a full portfolio of economic intelligence services covering the UK and the rest of Europe delivered through our Knowledge Base accessed via this website, and a substantial consultancy capability .
Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd
The Boots 'wets' factory of 1932 by the engineer-architect Sir Owen Williams is an outstanding landmark of early modern architecture in Britain. Its purpose was the manufacture of medicines and cosmetics and, remarkably, this still continues today. CAR recently completed a Conservation Management Plan to reconcile the constant need for updating equipment and plant with the building's Grade I listing status.Zero Carbon Hub
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MCS provides reassurance to consumers through the assessment of microgeneration products and installers against robust quality, performance and safety criteria. It is supported by industry, certification bodies and non-governmental groups as a prime method for making a substantial contribution to cutting the UK's dependency on fossil fuels and carbon dioxide emissions. About the scheme
Green Book Live
Welcome to T-ZERO, the comparison site that saves you money and carbon through green home improvements. Compare your options to find the best solution for your home, then locate the companies in your area that can help you with the improvements.
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PassivHaus UK
What is Passivhaus? Passivhaus or 'Passive House' is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world with 30,000 buildings realised to date, the majority of those since 2000. The Passivhaus Standards strengths lie in the simplicity of its approach; build a house that has an excellent thermal performance, exceptional airtightness with mechanical ventilation! This robust approach to building design allows the designer to minimise the 'Heating Demand' of the building and in some residential buildings only specify a heated towel rail as means of conventional heating, this heat can then be recovered and circulated by a Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery (MVHR) unit. As well as being an energy performance standard Passivhaus also provides excellent indoor air quality, this is achieved by reducing the air infiltration rates and supplying fresh air which is filtered and post heated by the MVHR unit. Global ApplicationBioRegional-Quintain
BioRegional Quintain is the UK’s leading sustainable community development business and we aim to deliver on three key promises : People : We believe that the concept of quality lifestyles should be at the heart of every community that we build, so our key objective is to enhance the health and happiness of our residents. We will work tirelessly to establish a genuine sense of community where our residents can feel safe, happy and assured. Place : We will set standards for design that produce world class, characterful and inspirational buildings employing the best international architects and designers. We will deliver sustainable buildings, public realm and landscape of the highest quality.