Recently more information has emerged on possible adverse health effects associ-ated with some building and furnishing materials,leading to or initiating legisla-tive changes towards their reduction or elimination in ...
INTRODUCTION LEED is the“yardstick”by which the design and construction industry measures the sustainability of a structure,comparing multiple buildings all on the same scale in an effort to prevent green-washing.It...
INTRODUCTION Since the foundation of his practice Ingenhoven Architekten in 1985,Christoph Ingenhoven(born 1960,as the son of an architect)has been an advocate of sustainable design and low-energy architecture.He is c...
Meg Calkins is Assistant Professor,Department of Landscape Architecture,Ball State University,Architecture Building 226,Ball State University,Muncie,IN 47306,Phone:765.285.2183,e-mail:calkins@bsu.edu.
While green roof technologies are increasingly employed in Northern European countries,adoption is progressing at amuch slower rate in the US.This manuscript discusses results of a survey that quantified knowledge,bar...