Big and Super-Green Buildings and Cities Highlighted at Innovation 2010 Conference

NEW YORK, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Construction, Architectural Record and GreenSource today released video highlights from Innovation 2010, a conference on big and super-green buildings and cityscapes, held in New York City in October 2010. The video features sustainable projects from Dubai, Chicago, New York, Hamburg, Manitoba and South Korea.

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In the video, James von Klemperer of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates reviews plans for New Songdo City in South Korea and underscores the importance of integrated, overlapping functions and mixed-use buildings in a sustainable city. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's Robert Forest presents the Decarbonization of Chicago Plan, developed to reduce carbon emissions in dense urban cores. David Owen of The New Yorker highlights New York City's sustainable merits: "NYC residents use less energy than any other Americans."

View the video at http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/mcgraw-hill/46846/ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_dHy0mObs8. Link to us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2949531 or check out future McGraw-Hill Construction events at http://construction.com/events. Additional videos are also available at ArchitecturalRecord.com/Video.

About McGraw-Hill Construction:

McGraw-Hill Construction connects people, projects and products across the construction industry. For more than a century, it has remained North America's leading provider of project and product information, plans and specifications, and industry news, trends and forecasts. McGraw-Hill Construction serves more than one million customers in the $5.6 trillion global construction industry through Dodge, Sweets, Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record, GreenSource, and 10 regional publications. To learn more, visit www.construction.com or follow @mhconstruction on Twitter.

About The McGraw-Hill Companies:

Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a global information and education company providing knowledge, insights and analysis in the financial, education and business information sectors through leading brands including Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, Platts, and J.D. Power and Associates. The Corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2009 were $5.95 billion. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com.

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