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USGBC opens registrations for LEED v4.1

The U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC’s) newest version of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building program, LEED v4.1, is open for registration for new construction projects as well as interior spaces with LEED v4.1 BD+C and LEED v4.1 ID+C. 

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Harvard’s HouseZero lab a lesson in ultra-efficiency

The HouseZero lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) was completed earlier this month in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Snøhetta and Skanska Teknikk retrofitted the headquarters of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC), in a pre-1940s building into a living laboratory and an energy-positive prototype for ultra-efficiency.

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