Report cards are no longer just for students, a new program is holding builders to higher standards as well. The Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) is the first green building rating program in the U.S. to target schools in the K-12 range and progressively more states are adopting the new program. According to CHPS, there […]
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Hurricane Sandy, unofficially dubbed “Superstorm Sandy,” was the deadliest and most destructive category-three hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the second most costly hurricane in U.S. history, just behind Hurricane Katrina. While most hurricanes go out to sea upon reaching the Mid-Atlantic, Sandy, however, set a course for devastation. From Oct. 22, […]
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Just when it seemed like things were getting better, the Commerce Department said Wednesday that “sales of new homes declined 14.5 percent” in March 2014. This brings home sales down to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 384,000. Worse still, the Commerce Department announced that March “was the second straight monthly decline and the lowest […]
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