BlueGreen Alliance Foundation

Biophilic Design as a Holistic Approach to Healthier Buildings

May 17, 2022

Relative to affordable housing, biophilic design provides a path forward for healthier and more beautiful spaces, and has the potential to rectify the negative impacts of living in what are too often depleted and insufficient living environments.

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Building Clean: Policies to Accelerate the Presence of Locally Made, Healthy Materials in Multifamily Housing

Mar 31, 2022

Building Clean’s “Buy Local, Buy Healthy” motto is a concept and approach to purchasing building products that focuses on supporting jobs in the local or regional economy, while lessening exposure to hazardous substances in the home through a better understanding of a product’s ingredient content and how it might impact the health of residents and installers. When applied in conjunction with building products that are energy and water-efficient, this concept can help transform lives and communities by creating buildings that save resources, grow jobs, and protect public health.

Zero Energy Ready Strategies

Mar 02, 2022

Net-Zero Ready or Zero Energy Ready buildings are designed and built to meet a certain level of energy efficiency so that if a renewable energy system were installed, the building would then produce as much energy as it consumes.

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Building Clean Case Studies

Feb 09, 2022

Over the next few weeks, Building Clean will be releasing a series of case studies highlighting successful programs across the country that incentivize buying local or buying healthy!

Builders Share Their Thoughts on Health and Hazards in Building Products

Oct 15, 2021

The Building Clean project is interested in shaping research and educational materials that can help builders take a health-centered approach to understand building products, including what chemicals of concern are in building products and how to identify and purchase healthier options.

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Buy Local, Buy Healthy, and Save!

Sep 14, 2021

How buying efficient, healthier, and U.S.-made products are not only cost-competitive but can actually save you money!

Building Clean

Why You Need to Use a Certified HVAC Installer

Jun 22, 2021

The following post is from Michael Miranda, LEED AP, HERS Rater—Outreach Manager, for the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation’s Building Clean initiative. 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)…

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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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Biophilic Design as a Holistic Approach to Healthier Buildings

Building Clean: Policies to Accelerate the Presence of Locally Made, Healthy Materials in Multifamily Housing

Zero Energy Ready Strategies

Building Clean Case Studies

Builders Share Their Thoughts on Health and Hazards in Building Products

Buy Local, Buy Healthy, and Save!

Why You Need to Use a Certified HVAC Installer

INFORM Magazine Article: Specifying American-Made Building Products

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

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