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Green Building Starts with Land Planning and Urban Design

Does sustainability only mean that proposed buildings within a project meet some sort of criteria (LEED® or otherwise) that designate them as “green”? Or, is there a more elusive, perhaps more encompassing definition to the term sustainability?

Installment 1: SIPs Construction

BartonPartners and Insulspan are improving on the current model for protected wood-frame construction without significantly impacting construction cost. We can improve: speed of construction, construction quality, labor efficiency, the thermal and moisture envelope, sustainability, quality, and operating expenses for maintenance and energy.