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Author: Jeff Sinclair Publisher: Scholastic Canada ISBN: 9780545994064 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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Want to put the freeze on global warming? Want to be in the know zone about the ozone? Reduce the heat or the air-conditioning, reuse an old pencil stub and recycle your brain cells! It's time to tackle these fun games and quizzes and learn how you can help the environment!
Author: Jeff Sinclair Publisher: Scholastic Canada ISBN: 9780545994064 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
Want to put the freeze on global warming? Want to be in the know zone about the ozone? Reduce the heat or the air-conditioning, reuse an old pencil stub and recycle your brain cells! It's time to tackle these fun games and quizzes and learn how you can help the environment!
Author: Alyssa Milano Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 1338329472 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 145
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Hope Roberts saves the planet! In the fourth book in Alyssa Milano's funny and relatable middle-grade series, Hope Roberts is determined to save the world—literally. Hope has already gotten her school to add more recycling bins and coordinate a carpooling program. But it's not enough. Hope wants to do more to protect the environment before it's too late. But will Hope's plans to help the planet backfire?Hope's relatability, kindness, empathy, and can-do attitude will inspire a generation of do-gooders. This series is a response to the very palpable feeling that not only can young people save the world—they will!This story will include Hope's tips about recycling and protecting the environment in the back of the book!
Author: Sam Kubba Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN: 0128039000 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 710
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LEED v4 Practices, Certification, and Accreditation Handbook, Second Edition, provides users with a practical user-friendly roadmap that presents the guidelines for selecting the LEED v4 rating system to better fit a particular project (e.g. LEED for Building Design and Construction, LEED for Operations and Maintenance, LEED for Interior Design and Construction, LEED for Building Design and Construction, or LEED for Neighborhood Development). In addition, this comprehensive handbook carefully explains the modifications in the credentialing process, including the new 3-Tier system requiring applicants to first take the LEEDTM Green Associate exam, followed by the LEEDTM Professional Accreditation exam. - Practical strategies and guidelines for applying LEED v4 project certification - Annotated tables, checklists, charts, and references to "quantum leap," LEED v4 - Includes case studies with special focus is put on key areas where most errors occur - Demystifies LEED v4 requirements for project as well as personal/professional LEED Certification - Appendixes including sample exam questions, acronyms and abbreviations and a glossary
Author: Sam Kubba Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN: 0080957048 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 561
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Green Construction is a specialized and skilled profession, and the author has extensive experience in this field. With this in mind, the reference is designed to provide practical guidelines and essential insights in preparing competent and professional looking ?Project Analysis Reports? and ?Project Status Reports?. The book also provides numerous tips on how to phrase the language of reports in a manner that is articulate and clearly understood by Real Estate Lenders and investors, as well as being an indispensable companion for both information and stimulus. Written in a conversational manner, this book will clarify the nuts and bolts of green construction, finance, and cost monitoring? as a profession, and will outline the many attributes required to being successful in this field. Moreover, it will scrutinize the mechanics of organizing monthly meetings, contractor payment certifications, budgets, change orders, construction schedules, code compliance, waivers of lean, and much more. Drawing on over 30 years of personal experience across the world - both as an employee and as an employer, the reader will learn how to plan and implement sound business strategies and form alliances in a global context. The book also offers important information and penetrating insights into the process of setting up and working as a due-diligence consultant. In a clear, practical style, it will be explained how to identify opportunities for business development and how to maximize return. It will also articulate how to meet new challenges as well as avoid many of the pitfalls along the way. For the individual professional, this guide provides useful information and tips to help secure a high paying professional position. The book will include amongst other things, up-to-date information on hundreds of useful contacts. Topics covered in this guide include: types of services offered, the consultant's role on the construction loan team, what the lender needs to know, and marketing techniques. The guide will also include a comprehensive appendix that will contain numerous sample letters (e.g. for marketing and certification), building loan agreements, AIA forms, lender/consultant agreement, closeout documents and much more. Likewise included will be an extensive list of useful references from a variety of resources, and much more. Indeed, this handbook will be the most detailed & comprehensive program on the market. It meets all the criteria of a major work and will provide vital and absorbing reading. - Provides a detailed blueprint of how to conduct monthly meetings, investigations, understand typical client/consultant agreements, analyze contractor requisitions - Includes sample letters, reports, forms and agreements for easy reference - Practical guidelines for preparing Property Analysis and Property Status Reports - Includes a glossary of important terms, abbreviations and acronyms
Author: Sam Kubba Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN: 0128104430 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 1066
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Handbook of Green Building Design and Construction: LEED, BREEAM, and Green Globes, Second Edition directly addresses the needs of building professionals interested in the evolving principles, strategies, and concepts of green/sustainable design. Written in an easy to understand style, the book is updated to reflect new standards to LEED. In addition, readers will find sections that cover the new standards to BREEAM that involve new construction Infrastructure, data centers, warehouses, and existing buildings. - Provides vital information and penetrating insights into three of the top Green Building Codes and Standards applied Internationally - Includes the latest updates for complying with LEED v4 Practices and BREEAM - Presents case studies that draws on over 35 years of personal experience from across the world
Author: Sam Kubba Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN: 0080958591 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 529
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Adopted in the United States and a number of other countries, LEED certification is the recognized standard for measuring building sustainability. Achieving LEED personal certification or project certification is the best way to demonstrate that the project is truly "green." Written by an architect with over 30 years of international experience, this book provides architects, designers, building owners, and construction engineers with an easy to understand guide to the nuts and bolts of LEED project and personal certification. Written in plain and easy to understand language, this ?hands on? book is designed to assist readers with all aspects of LEED certification. The handbook follows the rigorous third-party commissioning process, beginning with basic LEED concepts, and then carefully explains LEED documentation and technical requirements along with its standards, professional accreditation, and codes. The handbook provides readers with design strategies for sustainable site selection, and design process for high performance building and commissioning. Other important topics include green materials and products selection as well as strategies for ensuring Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), water efficiency and sanitary waste disposal. This handbook also offers readers a multitude of forms with expert guidance for their completion. Clear and authoritative in scope, LEED Practices, Certification, and Accreditation Handbook provides architects, builders/owners, construction managers, and engineers with a reference that will help them to offer their clients, peers, and the public at large compelling proof that they have achieved their projects environmental goals and that the building is performing as designed. Instruction for completing LEED checklist and forms Detailed explanation of the third-party commissioning process Explains LEED documentation & technical requirements Topics include green materials and products selection
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264079416 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 216
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This OECD Territorial Review of Toronto proposes a new sustainable competitiveness agenda to enhance productivity, focusing on innovation, cultural diversity and infrastructure, as well as on green policies for this key economic region of Canada.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Publisher: ISBN: Category : Energy conservation Languages : en Pages : 382
Author: Jeff Sinclair
Author: Jeff Sinclair
Author: Alyssa Milano
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Author: Sam Kubba
Author: Sam Kubba
Author: Sam Kubba
Author: Sam Kubba
Author: OECD
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works