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I recently heard a powerful statistic presented by a guest speaker at Greenbuild 2013 in Philadelphia. Stuart Kaplow, an attorney and green building practitioner, said that over the last seven years, non-residential green building construction has grown from 1.4% to 44% of the construction market.

GSA has made its announcement that Green Globes is being added to the list of acceptable Green Building Rating systems for federal projects. 

In the effort to increase the transparency of product content, Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are gaining momentum. They are highlighted in both LEED V.4 and Green Globes – New Construction as pathways for compliance.

The Armed Forces Retirement Home located in Gulfport, Miss. was built to replace the facility that was destroyed during Katrina. This innovative space includes all types of vinyl graphics. 

Suburbs around Washington, D.C. have some of the most problematic water infrastructure in the country, second only to Detroit

The following list outlines the applicable LEED v.4 credits that utilize windows as a part of a building system in a direct manner.

A list of credits given by LEED v4 (for use of design solutions that achieve LEED objectives) for which PVC products likely help.

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a consensus standards organization that writes codes and standards. For most people in the vinyl industry this sentence may seem irrelevant but as the following explanation points out, what NFPA does or does not do can, and will affect building safety and the materials chosen by specifiers.