a global safety science leader, announced today it has developed the first certification program that helps demonstrate a products contribution to requirements in the WELL
Building Standard, a program advancing health and wellbeing in buildings globally.
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) announced that it has crossed the 100 million square foot mark for buildings registered and certified under the WELL
Building Standard (WELL).
The homes meet National Green
Building Standard certification requirements, he adds, and represent the first New York development to receive the NAHBGreen Award.
The Leicester project is the largest non-residential project to meet the ultra-energy efficient
building standard.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) plans to develop a new green
building standard for residential properties, including multifamily buildings three stories or fewer in height.
The resulting ICC 700 National Green
Building Standard is the first and only residential green building rating system to undergo the full consensus process and receive approval from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
Chalabi added the Estidama Pearl Rating System will cause a "relatively expensive
building standard per square metre", but a relatively high sustainability standard of one or two pearls can be achieved through best practice design without exceeding the standard building cost.
The opportunity to have a project verified to the National Green
Building Standard became available in January 2009.
WASHINGTON -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the National Green
Building Standard for all residential new construction work, including single-family homes, apartments and condos, land development, and remodeling and renovation.
He also told the House committee that NAHB and the International Code Council are collaborating to develop the first national consensus-based residential green
building standard that would be certified and accredited by the American National Standards Institute.
ULs Wellness Certification mark will to signal architects, designers and specifiers that certified products such as furniture, interior paints and coatings, adhesives and sealants, insulation and lighting comply with requirements of the WELL
Building Standard and can help their projects achieve certification.
Updates of Two Green Building Programs of importance to the apartment sector--the N:H Kt I Green
Building Standard (INGBS) and the Green Building Council's (lISGBC) LEED programs--are nearing completion.
