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BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of GreenSpec and Environmental Building News (EBN), has announced the Top-10 Green Building Products for 2013. The eleventh annual awards, announced at the U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild Conference in San Francisco, are BuildingGreen's editors' picks of the most innovative green building products, drawn from product reviews published in GreenSpec and EBN.

"After a year of record droughts and floods across the country, this year's Top-10 products include several for managing moisture in buildings or for irrigating more responsibly," says BuildingGreen founder and GreenSpec executive editor Alex Wilson. "In selecting this year's products, we looked for companies addressing resilience, energy efficiency, thoughtful use of materials, cutting-edge system optimization, and other needs."

This year's selections include software for modeling heat and moisture flows, concrete masonry units with sequestration of carbon dioxide, a low-e coating for windows that opens new possibilities to energy-efficient, passive solar windows, and an LED streetlight meant to deliver 100 lumens per watt to precisely the area where the light is needed.