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Electronic Resources for Finding Articles

BuildingGreen.com

  • BuildingGreen.com is a web-based resource that provides comprehensive, fully researched sustainable design strategies and green products reviews.
  • This resource provides access to more than 2,000 articles from the pages of Environmental Building News, which offers building contractors and architects practical, in-depth insight into environmentally-responsible building materials, technologies, and construction methods. The newsletter also reviews new products and reports on news in the field.
  • This resource additionally provides access to in-depth case studies of more than 120 high performance buildings featuring designs that have put green building strategies to work.
  • Also included is a well-researched and comprehensive database of more than 1,950 continually updated green product listings from GreenSpec Directory.
  • This is an important resource in the AE and CM programs!
Question 10
In BuildingGreen.com, click on the Case Studies tab at the top of the page. Scroll down and click on "By Name of Project" Enter "Michigan Alternative Renewable Energy Center of Grand Valley State University" into this box, and click on the Overview link.

  • Where is the Center?
  • What percentage of conference space is available in it?
  • "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" -- or LEED -- is a design system that recognizes the environmental performance of buildings at four levels, including Certified, Silver, Gold, and Platinum.
  • What is the LEED level for the Center?


GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

  • GREENR provides open access journal articles, videos, and images for national and international coverage of topics in:
    • Agriculture and Food Systems
    • Economics and Trade
    • Energy
    • Humans in the Natural World
    • Law and Politics
    • Pollution
    • Resources Management
    • Science and Technology (see link for a good overview of LEED-Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
    • Social Factors

ProQuest SciTech Collection

  • This database is the ultimate science and technology research solution, combining full text journals with detailed indexing of global literature on natural sciences, engineering and technology. Areas covered include materials science, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, biology, aquatic sciences, environmental science, computer science and earth sciences in addition to many more. It fully incorporates ProQuest Natural Science Collection and ProQuest Technology Collection.

ScienceDirect College Edition

  • This database provides access to full-text articles published in more than 1,800 scholarly journals in the health sciences, the physical sciences, and the social sciences.
  • Available articles include those articles published from 1995 to the present.
  • All articles are peer-reviewed, and are from some of the world's best journals in the subject areas that are covered.
  • This is an outstanding database that you should search for virtually all research topics at MSOE.
Question 11
In ScienceDirect, enter the following terms into the All Fields search box: 
durability of concrete made with marble

One of the articles retrieved should be entitled, "Durability of Concrete Made with Granite and Marble as Recycle Aggregates."  Copy and paste the complete bibliographic citation of the article into your answer sheet.  The "bibliographic citation" means the title of the article, the journal it was published in, the volume and issue, the date, the page numbers, and the names of the authors.

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