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Why You Need to Use a Certified HVAC Installer

Jun 22, 2021

Written by Michael Miranda, LEED AP, HERS Rater—Outreach Manager, Building Clean Your heating system (furnace, boiler, or heat pump) is likely to die during the middle of winter when it is working the hardest. The same is true with your air conditioner (A/C or heat pump) when it is trying to pump all that heat…

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INFORM Magazine Article: Specifying American-Made Building Products

Feb 25, 2021

Dana Parker, the National Program Manager for the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation, penned a feature article for INFORM Magazine, which is published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Virginia.

BuildingClean.org Adds Building Enclosure Products to American-Made Building Product Database

Feb 09, 2021

BuildingClean.org, an online tool that links the energy, housing, and health sectors together, today announced the addition of building enclosure products to its American-made building product database.

BuildingClean.org Report Finds “Buy American” Policies Would Dramatically Boost Manufacturing Jobs Making Energy-Efficient Products

Feb 02, 2021

A new report released today by BuildingClean.org found increasing the rate of residential deep retrofits across the nation coupled with the implementation of Buy American procurement policies could create more than 170,000 American manufacturing jobs.

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Home Radon Levels Go From Low to Dangerous within 150 Feet

Sep 18, 2020

Building Clean and its Habitat for Humanity partner in Rochester, N.Y., have found a cautionary example of how radon exposure can vary greatly even in the same neighborhood.

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Building Clean Teams up With HPN Select to Help Affordable Housing Owners Find Local Building Products

Oct 30, 2019

Building Clean and HPN Select, a Housing Partnership Network social enterprise, announced a partnership to help affordable housing owners find locally manufactured building products. With Building Clean’s assistance, HPN Select will add the manufacturing location—city and state—to thousands of building products in the Select EcoGuide, a database highlighting the health and sustainability of materials used by nonprofit multifamily housing developers.

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What’s In Your Water?

Aug 07, 2019

PFAS are a family of man-made chemicals that arrived on the scene in the 1950s and have been manufactured and used in a wide variety of consumer products ever since. An estimated 99 percentof Americans have traces of PFAS in their blood.

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Latest Project from A Tiny Home for Good Applauded by Building Clean

Jul 26, 2019

A Tiny Home for Good today held a ribbon cutting ceremony in Syracuse after the completion of its latest project, four homes at 216 Slocum Avenue in Southeast Syracuse.

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Literally Building Green

Jun 27, 2019

Architects and designers can play a huge role in helping to improve health and wellness by bringing nature into buildings and surrounding environments. A landmark study by Danish researchers found that children who grow up surrounded by more green space have up to a 55 percent lower risk of developing mental disorders later in life.

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Building Clean: Buy Local, Buy Healthy

Jun 19, 2019

Americans spend almost more than two-thirds of their lives inside their homes, and while news stories about what’s in our cleaning or personal care products are seemingly everywhere these days, how often do we think about what’s in the structure surrounding us?

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