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Making Healthier, Greener Foam Insulation
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A proposed change to the residential building code (International Residential Code) would eliminate the need for halogenated flame retardants in many applications
For this Passive House in New York's Hudson River Valley, 12 inches of XPS were installed beneath the concrete slab. With proposed changes to the IRC, subslab insulation wouldn't need to be treated with flame retardants.
USGBC Exploring A New Kind of LEED Plaque
The concept plaque, a digital, data-driven “performance dashboard,” would keeping a building’s LEED certification up to date with its actual performance.
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LEED v4 got most of the attention at the November 2012 Greenbuild conference, but another LEED concept was unveiled that could, over time, have as much or more impact on how we perceive and interact with the LEED Rating System. While all aspects of the concept are in development, including the name, USGBC’s senior vice president for LEED, Scot Horst, unveiled something he’s calling the “LEED dynamic plaque,” and that he’s pitching as the future of LEED performance tracking and recertification.