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Glycon Garcia

ENN: Build "green" to cut emissions fast, report says - 0 views

  • "Green" construction could cut North America's climate-warming emissions faster and more cheaply than any other measure, environmental experts from Canada, Mexico and the United States reported on Thursday.
Energy Net

California Introduces Statewide Green Building Code : TreeHugger - 0 views

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    In what was described as the United States' first statewide "green" building rules, the California Building Standards Commission said the code would help reduce the carbon footprint of every new structure in the state.
Colin Bennett

Cascadia Releases Study on the Value of Green Building - 0 views

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    A new study of office buildings in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, BC by the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, the Vancouver Valuation Accord and Cushman & Wakefield identifies how high-performance green features and systems can increase the value of commercial buildings.
Energy Net

Peak Energy: Green Buildings In Madrid - 0 views

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    Herzog and de Meuron have been very busy lately designing some amazing new buildings in Europe, like their Project Triangle in Paris. Their newest design for the Spanish banking group BBVA will be built on the outskirts of Madrid as early as 2013. The verdant green headquarters will feature luscious gardens and will create it's own microclimate by using natural ventilation, evapotranspiration, and the shade of the gardens and buildings to create a cool artificial oasis on a desert-like site. The project is meant to function as a small city, encouraging people to walk and meet within the outdoor spaces. The project is essentially a linear series of 3-story buildings seperated by alleyways and irrigated gardens. The smaller buildings are designed to give employees access to natural light and the outdoors, while the tower rises as a skyward-tilted circle, giving BBVA a presence in the Madrid skyline. The courtyard located around the tower is planted with shady trees and features a large basin of water that serves as a resevoir and humidifies the air.
Colin Bennett

Have your say on the future of green building - 0 views

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    Got an opinion on how green green buildings should be?
Colin Bennett

Energy News and Commentary: Think You Know What a 'Green Job' Is? Think Again - 0 views

  • So what is a green job? Well green jobs are architects and engineers that build buildings, design buildings that operate at extremely low energy use. They are people that design, manufacture, and install devices in buildings ranging from high-tech windows to lighting to sensors and controls and electronics. It means looking at radically new industrial processes which simply replace previous kinds of industrial manufacturing with sophisticated bionumetics and nanotech approaches, to cutting down the material intensity and energy intensity of production, this is the kind of thing you need to do to stay competitive in the modern world.
Colin Bennett

What's next in driving green building | Cleantech.com - 0 views

  • A new trinational report gives green building a green light, but who should drive? The industry weighs in.
Colin Bennett

The Largest Building In The World To Be Green : MetaEfficient - 0 views

  • As you would expect from a Foster + Partners project, the self-contained city within a city has green energy management at the very heart of the design. Crystal Island will generate low carbon energy from solar arrays and wind turbines located on the building with vast atriums to regulate the internal air temperature during the extremes of the Russian summer and winter.
Glycon Garcia

BBC NEWS | Americas | Empire State building goes green - 0 views

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    One of the world's most famous skyscrapers - the Empire State building in New York - is going green. A project is underway to reduce the amount of energy used in the building by more than a third, saving millions of dollars a year.
Colin Bennett

Green Buildings to Hammer Out a $277 Billion Market - 0 views

  • Buildings consume more energy and materials than any other human activity -- a reality that, for decades, has fueled interest in any improvements able to save energy and reduce costs. As energy prices continue to rise and resources dwindle, interest in "green buildings" has sparked a growing industry. According to a new report from Lux Research, the market for energy saving green buildings technologies will expand from $144 billion today to $277 billion in 2020, representing a 6.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
Colin Bennett

Despite Recession, Green Building Soars in U.S. - 0 views

  • Not only are new homes in the U.S. getting smaller, they are getting greener. Despite overall sluggishness in the U.S. construction sector, the U.S. green building market is accelerating at a substantial rate, according to a new report from McGraw-Hill Construction.
Colin Bennett

What do movie actor Edward Norton and low-income, single moms have in common? They're b... - 0 views

  • What do movie actor Edward Norton and low-income, single moms have in common? They're both driving the renewable energy and green building industries.
  • What do movie actor Edward Norton and low-income, single moms have in common? They're both driving the renewable energy and green building industries.
Colin Bennett

A valuable reminder on green building materials - 0 views

  • VCs investing in green building techs and materials will therefore need to take special care to make sure they're not just investing in something that will be simply a high-end niche product.  That means not just validating the economic value proposition.  And it means not just double-checking that there's nothing unsafe about the materials.  It means also working hard to evaluate the market's perception of and openness to the product, to understand just how difficult it will be to introduce the new product to the channel.  Even if it's cheaper and works better and has a few early "wins", it still may see very slow adoption.
Colin Bennett

Green construction code aims to improve commercial buildings - 0 views

  • The International Code Council (ICC) earlier this week launched the first public version of the International Green Construction Code (IGCC), which aims to bring together standards for the environmental performance of commercial buildings.
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    "The International Code Council (ICC) earlier this week launched the first public version of the International Green Construction Code (IGCC), which aims to bring together standards for the environmental performance of commercial buildings."
Sergio Ferreira

Ecotality Life » How To Finance a Green Building Project - 0 views

  • Financing for green building projects may be easier to get from smaller banks who are competing with other smaller banks
Hans De Keulenaer

Greens tout alternatives to electricity privatisation - ABC News (Australian Broadcasti... - 0 views

  • The Greens are warning the New South Wales Government not to rush into building a new base load power station and privatising the electricity industry.
  • The Greens are warning the New South Wales Government not to rush into building a new base load power station and privatising the electricity industry.
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    With the best of intentions ...
Colin Bennett

Thoughts On Piers' "Why Build Sustainability into your Business" on PSFK - 0 views

  • A recent post entitled ‘Why build Sustainability into your business’ highlighted some great profit centred arguments for building sustainability into business strategies. The basic premise behind them being that “greed got us into this mess and greed will get us out”… “being green means making more profit”. Piers Fawkes illustrated this paradigm with some exciting contemporary examples of win-win scenarios arising from corporate responses to the sustainability agenda. Yet there seems to be something rather unsettling about the notion that our last hope should be greed. Einstein once said that you can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that gave rise to it. Was this to be the exception?
Colin Bennett

UK building regulation changes - 1 views

  • The programme I am setting out today has been arrived at after active engagement with our external partners. A key theme to emerge from this process has been that these partners believe that although the regime is generally fit for purpose, there are things we can improve. This confirms the Department’s belief that the building regulations should remain the national minimum standard that building work should comply with. While much of the programme of work is deregulatory in nature, it will, however, include work to deliver our commitment to increase energy efficiency through part L (conservation of fuel and power). This will represent our next steps towards zero-carbon buildings and will also provide an opportunity to consider provisions for the existing stock in the light of the Government’s emerging policies on reducing carbon emissions, including the green deal. We will also explore how better to ensure high levels of compliance.
  • Set against this there are a number of key areas where we want to explore the potential for deregulation and streamlining of the existing provisions. In particular, representations made to Government demonstrate concern with the costs imposed on electricians by part P (electrical safety—dwellings). We believe it is now time to evaluate the building regulations’ contribution to the safety outcomes they were intended to support and, if we are to retain regulation of this kind, how we might minimise the associated costs.
davidchapman

Photos: Green building goods get a home | CNET News.com - 0 views

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    The Green Building Exchange [Its a shop!] held its grand opening Saturday in Redwood City, Calif. It is the first shopping and meeting center of its kind serving home buyers, builders and nonprofit groups. Products on display include solar panels, recycled renovation materials and low-toxic furniture.
Colin Bennett

With green "in," home automation's time is here - 0 views

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    Intelligent consumer use of our limited energy supply is now recognised as one of the major factors in the green revolution. According to the Smart Energy Home Initiative, which brings together companies to overcome the barriers that prevent sustainable houses from being the norm, buildings consume 40% of the energy used in Europe and contribute to 36% of greenhouse gas emissions, with the loss in monetary terms estimated at €60 billion a year. Using home automation technology for energy control can reduce power consumption by limiting use to where and when it is most needed … therefore saving money on energy bills without affecting quality of life.
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