The U.S. Green Building Council has named Jim Nicolow, a principal of the architecture firm Lord, Aeck & Sargent, and its director of sustainability, to the 2012 class of LEED Fellows.
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U.S. Green Building Council's new headquarters earns LEED Platinum
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Arup, SOM top BD+C's ranking of the country's largest mixed-use design firms
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Structure Tone, Turner among the nation's busiest reconstruction contractors, according to BD+C's Giants 300 report
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SSOE, Fluor among nation's largest industrial building design firms
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Walmart establishes sustainable product index to evaluate 'greeness' of products
Walmart today announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index during a meeting with 1,500 of its suppliers, associates and sustainability leaders at its home office. The index will establish a single source of data for evaluating the sustainability of products.
