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The Sustainability and Green Design group publishes widely in major environmental engineering, public policy, green buildings, and sustainability journals.



NEW: Dr. Landis's Feature article in Environmental Science and Technology

Sample Publications From SGD

Dr. Bilec's Recent Publications

  • Bilec, M. and Ries, R. (2007), "Preliminary Study of Green Design and Project Delivery Method in the Public Sector." Journal of Green Building, 2(2), 151-160.
  • Bilec, M., Ries, R., Matthew, H. S., and Sharrard, A. L. (2006). "Example of a Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment of Construction Processes." Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 12(4), 207-215.
  • Ries, R., Bilec, M., Gokhan, N. M., and Needy, K. L. (2006). "The Economic Benefits of Green Buildings: A Comprehensive Case Study." The Engineering Economist, 51(3), 259-295.

Dr. Landis's Recent Publications

  • Miller, Shelie A., Amy E. Landis, Thomas L. Theis (2007). "Environmental Tradeoffs of Biobased Production." Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 41, No. 15, pp. 5176-5182.
  • Landis, Amy E., Shelie A. Miller, Thomas L. Theis (2007). "Life cycle of the corn-soybean agroecosystem for biobased production." Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 1457-1464.
  • Landis, Amy E. and Thomas L. Theis (2006). "Response to 'Comments on Workshop Report on the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Biobased Production.'" The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 213-214.

Dr. Marriott's Recent Publications

  • Marriott, J., Matthews H.S. (2005). "Environmental Effects of Interstate Power Trading on Electricity Consumption Mixes." Environmental Science and Technology, 39 (22) pp 8584-8590.
  • Marriott, J., Matthews, H. S., "Disaggregating the power generation sector for input-output life-cycle assessment". Submitted.
  • Marriott, J., Matthews, H. S., Hendrickson, C., "Impact of Electricity Mix Choice on GHG Results in LCA". Submitted.

Green Construction research

pioneers the development of new techniques in Sustainability

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