By February, contractors committing to build environmentally friendly projects could get their permits faster than others waiting in line, if the City Council approves an ordinance offering this and other green building incentives.
LEED promotes the conservation of resources like water and electricity through design and choice of electrical and plumbing fixtures, recycling as much as possible from demolition and construction materials and even using cleaning and maintenance supplies that don't harm the environment.
The City is planning for the interior renovation of the old Haverty's building, which will become the new City Annex, and the eventual construction of a new County Courthouse to meet the LEED requirements.
Although the ordinance doesn't require private projects to meet the certification, Schuster said he hopes the incentives in the ordinance will spur more construction projects to go green.
The Green Building Alliance on Thursday gave seven grants totaling $448,000 for the development of new green building projects.
The grants include collaboration between private sector companies and university teams located within Pennsylvania, said Rebecca Flora, executive director of Green Building Alliance.
$100,000 for Ductmate GreenSeam II product development, which is designed to reduce duct leakage
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The proposed laboratory building on the 25 acre campus is a ground plus three floors structure set on the southern edge of a large central maidan.
But instead of a closed-in structure, with a clear demarcation between surrounding landscape and built area, what Anupam Bansal and Rajesh Dongre of 10-year-old Delhi firm ABRD Architects have done is open out the building to the surrounding greens, allowing it to flow in and over.
Here too Bansal and Dongre integrate eco-friendliness with design aesthetics, so you have a roof-lit atrium with louvres that not just lights up the interiors but also gives it grandeur