Green Building Pages Awarded
SBIC Best Practices Stimulating Demand through Increased Consumer Awareness
Washington D.C.,
December 7, 2006 -
Green Building Pages, a web resource
guide for sustainable building materials, received
the 2006
SBIC's
award for Stimulating Demand through Increased
Consumer Awareness. SBIC recognized three winning
projects for
the 2006 Best Sustainable Practice Award at the
Ecobuild Federal Conference in
Washington, D.C.
The award program is in its sixth year of
recognizing those who are making
exceptional contributions to sustainability in
America's built environment. Green Building
Initiative and
ASHRAE were other recipients of this year's awards.
Creating a Market Transformation
Green Building Pages received the award based on the
sustainable practice tools for Creating a Market
Transformation. The mission for the company is to
create a clear, concise, public format for
communicating comprehensive, current, and
transparent information to enable building industry
professionals and consumers seeking a healthy,
sustainable lifestyle to choose building materials
that preserve health, the environment, and whose
production and manufacture processes promote social
equity and economic sustainability.
The website is a resource for anyone interested in
"green building". Green Building Pages provides a
product
database with
transparent information concerning the manufacturer
and the processes; links and resources to over 400
sustainable design related web-links and
paper-published resources, including conferences &
expos, government agencies, LEED-mandating agencies,
Professional Trade Organizations, and many more;
news briefs with current green news from across the
web; links to over 130 case studies including AIA
Top Ten Green Projects.
GBP 2007 Benchmarking Sustainability...
About Green Building Pages
The Green Building Pages has evolved over ten years
as a part of the sustainable design and architecture
practice of Marilyn Miller Farmer, AIA, LEED AP, and
Habitat Studio, Architecture & Planning, in San Luis
Obispo,
California. The
research and development for this web resource guide
has been in collaboration with numerous
professionals involved in the building industry as
well as many others vitally interested in preserving
the environment and in creating a sustainable world.
With a format that provides current, comprehensive,
easily accessible, and totally transparent
information about building materials, product
life-cycles, manufacturing processes and company
policies, the Green Building Pages offers users the
opportunity and ability to make fully informed
decisions in the selection of sustainable building
materials.
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For more information contact:
Marilyn Miller Farmer, AIA, LEED AP
phone:
805-782-9431
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