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What is Your Sustainability Message

Volvo CE’s OptiShift technology makes equipment up to 15% more fuel efficient while reducing emissions and environmental impact.

NAPA Endorses GAO Call For Support for LCCA Cost-Estimating Practices

National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA)

Association says Congress must devote funds to ensure better, more reliable data for states to conduct and verify life-cycle cost analysis models for road construction

Tips of the Sustainable Trade

Understand how your actions, as a contractor on a sustainable jobsite, impact the overall project

Julie Buffenbarger serves as an Engineering and Architectural Specialist for Lafarge Cement. Her role is to promote cement and supplementary cementitious materials and sustainable design and building practice initiatives through technical education, promotion and specification with contractors, owners, architects, engineers and design agencies. She is an active member of ACI, serving as vicechair of the Sustainable Concrete Committee, and voting member on the fly ash, silica fume and durable concrete committees. Julie also serves on the Concrete Joint Sustainability Committee and the NRMCA and PCA technical committees relating to sustainability. She has more than 15 years' experience in concrete construction marketing and research and has authored more than 15 publications on supplementary cementitious materials, concrete sustainability and durability, and admixtures in mining backfill. She holds Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.

Studying in Sustainable Style

Daylighting, shown here in the open student area, provides nergy savings through the reduced use of electricity and the warmth gained from solar heat.

Are You Ready for Damage Restoration Season?

As our climate becomes more severe, we're seeing more flooding and, as a result, more property damage caused by water. As an equipment rental business, you are in a prime position to offer assistance when this occurs.

What is YOUR sustainability message?

Volvo CE's OptiShift technology makes equipment up to 15% more fuel efficient while reducing emissions and environmental impact.

AIA Honors Two Sustainable Projects with Top Ten Awards

American Institute of Architects

Top Ten Plus recognizes projects that show quantifiable metrics that demonstrate the true impact the sustainable design has achieved

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Atlas Copco Implements New Identity for Road Construction Equipment

Atlas Copco Power Technique

Transitional period will differ from product to product and depend on new product introductions, but full integration should be complete by 2014.

EPA Report to Congress Highlights Success of Diesel-Engine Retrofit Program

Diesel repowers and exhaust-filter retrofits funded by DERA grants from 2008 to 2010 prevented production of 203,000 tons of NOx, 12,500 tons of particulate and 2.3 million tons of CO2

Validating Products' Environmental Performance Becomes Necessary with LEED v4 Launch

Companies such as Elixir Environmental and GreenCE provide direction for building product manufacturers seeking to maximize benefits of environmental compliance

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FREE WEBINAR - Sustainable Concrete:The Role of Performance-based Specifications

National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA)

Bridges to Replace Snowshed on I-90 East of Snoqualmie Pass

Design change gets environmental approval after months of collaboration between WSDOT and contractor Guy F. Atkinson Construction

Replacing I-90 snowshed with bridges will cost slightly less than building expanded snowsheds, and reduce necessary avalanche control work (seen here).

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