Inviting MEP to the Embodied Carbon Party

MEP engineering firms and others are encouraging MEP equipment manufacturers to report on the embodied carbon of their products.
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MEP systems contribute to both the initial construction and lifetime embodied carbon footprint of an example office building. This MEP footprint begins at construction and grows over time is due to operations, refrigerant leakage, and replacement.

The Sustainable MEP Leaders group, organized by BuildingGreen, is a group of motivated individuals, representing many of the leading engineering firms in North America, including most of the signatories on this letter. Our teams include tens of thousands of MEP engineers practicing in the US market.

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Celebrating 30 Years of Publication

BuildingGreen’s editors look back on three decades of a movement
by the BuildingGreen editors

It has been quite a wild ride! As The BuildingGreen Report (formerly Environmental Building News) celebrates its 30th year of publication, we decided to track the growth—and explosion—of the green building movement. We start in 1990 with the founding of AIA’s Committee on the Environment.

Our Editors’ Picks

To celebrate Volume 30 of BuildingGreen's publication this blog features a few of our editors’ favorite pieces.  

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