Is Precast Concrete the Key to Rebuilding Our Infrastructure?
Maybe we should start looking to concrete—made out of locally-sourced water, stone, sand & gravel—as a green solution to America’s infrastructure problems.
Maybe we should start looking to concrete—made out of locally-sourced water, stone, sand & gravel—as a green solution to America’s infrastructure problems.
Experts think it’s cheaper & greener to maintain existing infrastructure than to build it new from scratch given the resource demands of new construction.
Eco-mansions are helping to relieve guilt from the Hamptons to Palm Beach.
Five percent of new commercial construction meets standards set by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program (LEED). Ten percent of new homes satisfy the federal government’s Energy Star guidelines, meaning they’re nearly one-third more energy-efficient than regulations require. But U.S. buildings put out about a third of the country’s greenhouse gasses, and at the rate green building is penetrating the market today, it will be many years before we save the 70 percent of emissions thought necessary to stabilize the climate.
In sizing up a prospective house, more and more homebuyers are asking themselves how the property rates on the green scale…