Showing posts with label green buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green buildings. Show all posts

Green Builder Hardware Associations

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Green Builder hardware association are those government as well as private bodies that monitor as well as promote sustainable building along with providing information on green builder manufacturers, green building suppliers and manufacturing associations and professional associations in all sectors of the green building industry. These associations provides and shares resources and various technologies to aid in the designing of high environmental standards that includes minimizing energy requirements, reducing water consumption, using building materials of low environmental impact, reducing wastage, conserving the natural environment and safeguard human health and well being.

Countries all over the world have configured their own set of rules and standards of efficiency for green building. These organizations play an active role in facilitating the learning process between the members and thus help the building industry in avoiding the hazardous impact on non green buildings. The green building hardware association have access to international network and they use their resources to bring together all the representatives of the green hardware industry and further expand its growth among the member companies. The advantages of these trade associations is that they provide source of technical expertize and focus on maintaining the green standards of the global green building industry. While browsing through these trade associations one can gather fruitful information on the latest happenings in the green industry. Promoting and sensitizing the building hardware manufacturers about the environmental impacts of green building is the key aim of these green building associations.

Following is the list of some of the most popular green builder associations across the globe -

US Green Building Council is a non profit community of leaders that works with the aim of making green buildings available for every generation. This 15 years old organization is the prime association among the green building trade associations and also license some of the other organisations that run on similar pattern.

Builders Owners & Managers Association, of Canada manages the building environment standards along with certification, along with replacing their Go Green and Go Green Plus programs.

The New Zealand Green Building Council, provide the construction industry with an objective measurement for green buildings and to recognize and reward environmental leadership in the property industry.

UK Green Building Council
, was launched in February 2007 and aims at providing sustainable building environment by radically transforming the way it is planned, designed, constructed, maintained and operated. The participation list in this membership council includes businesses, NGOs, academic institutions and government agencies.

Sustainability Practitioners Association was formed in July 2004 by 14 consultants working in different areas of sustainability. Based in Australia, the vision of this green council is to endure, high impact association to connect and help in developing Australian sustainability practitioners.

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Zero Carbon Homes - Another Initiative to Turn Green

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In another attempt to go green, the Litchfield Group is all set for the curtain raiser of its new range of sustainable and energy efficient window hardware, doors and structural wall products. This launch happened at Ecobuild in the low carbon building category. Cashing upon the programme objective that is Reducing carbon dioxide emissions, lowering fuel bills and improving the insulation of buildings, the managing director of the firm claims to have heavily invested in the development of products that will be applicable in the zero carbon home requirements even in the year 2016. The company has launched three step solution to counter the growing carbon emission. They include Sheerframe HED window system, made to measure Masterdor Thermal door-sets and ICF Tech structural walls. The Sheerframe HED (Homogenous Energy Dynamics), a new thermal PVC window system that is aimed to deliver U-values as low as 0.8W/m2K.

Litchfield is a UK based company that has installed technology like regional fabricators and installers, 55mm insulated timber engineered Masterdor Thermal door-set and Insulating Concrete Form (ICF) system to make its product a success in the building market and construction industry. All these products manufactured by the company qualify the UK government standards. Some of the main features of this range of zero carbon homes are that they provide excellent sound reduction, are low on maintenance and are secured by design accredited.

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