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		<title>Announcing the 2015 SIPA Building Excellence Award Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 13th Annual Structural Insulated Panel Association Building Excellence Awards were announced during the association’s 2015 Annual Meeting &#38; Conference in Tucson, Arizona. Winning submissions demonstrated exceptional performance in quantifiable energy efficiency using structural insulated panels (SIPs); design and structural engineering innovation; creative use of SIP construction; and environmental sustainability. The 2015 winning projects and award recipients are: The competition’s Overall Winner and winner of the Single Family Homes under [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Schweiss Doors part of winning Ontario municipal building</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Municipal building awarded for innovation, environmentally friendly features HECTOR, Minn. – In a perfect world, the construction of a municipal building would be highlighted by both form and function. Most times, because the budget is determined by taxpayer dollars, the end result is to settle for function. The award winning Municipal Operations Centre at Newmarket, Ontario, has achieved both form and function, as an aesthetically pleasing, energy efficient and environmentally [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>AWC announces self-directed study program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEESBURG, VA. &#8211; The American Wood Council is now offering a complimentary self-directed learning program on designing with wood. Courses are related to the use of traditional and engineered wood products for residential and commercial applications and are available on the AWC website. The program allows those seeking continuing education unit (CEU) credits and others wanting to learn proper wood design to work at their own pace. Users will watch [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>NCI Building Systems Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire CENTRIA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HOUSTON- NCI Building Systems, Inc. (NYSE: NCS), a leading manufacturer of metal products for the nonresidential building industry, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pittsburgh area-based CENTRIA, an internationally recognized leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of architectural insulated metal panel (IMP) wall and roof systems and a provider of integrated coil coating services for the nonresidential construction industry. CENTRIA, which generates over 85% of its revenue [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. manufacturers showcase innovative propane technologies in new video series</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8211; The Propane Education &#38; Research Council has released video interviews with leading U.S. equipment manufacturers highlighting their investment in developing and commercializing new propane technologies. The online video series, Clean American Innovation, goes behind-the-scenes at manufacturing facilities across the U.S. to capture footage of cutting-edge propane technologies in production. Companies featured in the series include Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp., Generac, Kohler Engines and Power Systems, Marathon, Origin Engines, Power Solutions [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Envolution brochures highlight company dedication to environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEWISVILLE, Texas – Envolution™ by Metl-Span® has produced two brochures illustrating its dedication to the development of energy-efficient and cost-effective architectural panel systems. Environmentally Connected is a LEED v3 and v4 Support Guide to highlight the Envolution insulated metal panels and accessories that meet sustainability and energy efficiency standards. This brochure is being provided to help architects, specifiers and design professionals in identifying the sustainability benefits, attributes and performance criteria [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>WoodWorks to host national symposium on taller wood buildings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 6 and 7, the Wood Products Council’s WoodWorks program will host a National Symposium, &#8220;Toward Taller Wood Buildings&#8221;, in Chicago, Ill. Intended to give attendees a practical perspective on North America’s evolution toward taller wood buildings, the Symposium will focus on how designers are increasing density at lower cost by designing taller mid-rise buildings under the International Building Code (IBC), as well as the structural design of wood [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>AWC statement on recent Biogenic Carbon Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8211; American Wood Council (AWC) President and CEO Robert Glowinski has issued the following statement regarding the “Forest Carbon Accounting Considerations in U.S. Bioenergy Policy” article recently published in the Journal of Forestry. The article is a review of current literature regarding the carbon emissions of biomass. It concludes that considering the full spectrum of forest-based activity, including using a time horizon consistent with that used for other greenhouse [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>BioPreferred program opens to wood products</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8211; American Wood Council (AWC) President and CEO Robert Glowinski issued the following statement regarding the recognition of wood products under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) BioPreferred Program going into effect.  The 2014 Farm Bill states that forest products, previously considered to be ineligible because they were “mature market,” are now eligible products to be recognized in USDA biobased programs. “Beginning today [September 2, 2014], USDA is recognizing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>American Wood Council statement on USDA&#8217;s bio-based final use rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 18:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8211; American Wood Council (AWC) President and CEO Robert Glowinski has issued a statement regarding the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Friday release of a final rule on the BioPreferred program. Among other changes, the new rule deletes the mature market language from the regulation. The 2014 Farm Bill includes language on the Biobased Program that explicitly states forest products are eligible biobased products and recognizes ways in which innovation can be demonstrated [&#8230;]]]></description>
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