Green Construction and Design

Hannah Solar is a home-grown, two-year old full-service solar integrator. Its growth has skyrocketed to more than$4 million in current sales. For more information, please visit Hannah Solaror call 404-609-7005. Hannah Solar has completed the largest solar array on any office building in Atlanta’s history. Partnering with Atlanta Property Group’s ten-story Peachtree 25th Building located [...]

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Sustainable Atlanta

November 9, 2010

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Keep up with the city’s plans for change here – http://www.sustainableatlanta.org/ The plan is to “Amend Atlanta’s building code so that it responds to advances in building technology to protect the health, safety, and welfare of Atlantans and to safeguard Atlanta’s long term comprehensive competitiveness.” What are the requirements of the Ordinance? The Sustainable Building [...]

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A Lesson In Energy Design

October 21, 2010

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-Chris Laumer-Giddens Chris is a licensed architect and energy efficiency professional who leads Energy Vanguard’s Design and Technical Services. Follow Chris on Twitter: @claumergiddens When my wife and I moved from Tampa to Atlanta in 2008, we decided to try high rise living. We were living in a 1916 bungalow, which we loved dearly, and looked [...]

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Cincinnati Schools has in effect a long term $1 billion building project that will help to renovate and rebuild many of its older buildings. One Cincinnati School’s elementary school, Pleasant Ridge Elementary School, has been recently featured in District Administration. This national magazine focuses on issues in K-12 education. The article from the August issue [...]

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Green Building

By Matthew Hancock “Green Building” is a broad term used to describe the design and construction of sustainable and environmentally conscious buildings. The driving force behind this is to lower our negative impact on the environment and, at the same time, make the buildings we live and work in safer and healthier for us. According [...]

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