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Colin Bennett

The "Energy Plus" Building Produces All Its Own Power : MetaEfficient - 0 views

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buildings

shared by Colin Bennett on 23 Jan 08 - Cached
  • The “Energy Plus” office building, to be located outside of Paris, is designed to produce all its own energy for heating, lighting and air conditioning. This zero-energy building, according to the designers, will be the greenest office building ever created. It will accomplish this by having more solar panels on its roof than any other building - producing enough energy to power the entire building and still feed extra back into the grid.
Hans De Keulenaer

Home | BUILDUP - 0 views

www.buildup.eu

buildings resources europe

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 17 Jun 09 - Cached
  • BUILD UP is a new environment for building professionals, local authorities and building occupants willing to share their experience on how to cut energy consumption in buildings. Diversity is a major strength of the EU and BUILD UP will promote the exchange of all the best practices, tools and technologies available across Europe for an effective implementation of energy-saving measures in buildings. When it comes to climate change and security of energy supply, there is no easy fix. It is only by working together that we will achieve a real impact.
Hans De Keulenaer

Logging Occupancy to Optimize Energy Use - Energy Efficiency Markets - 2 views

www.energyefficiencymarkets.com/-occupancy-optimize-energy-use

efficiency buildings

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 01 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Every occupant in a building creates demand for lighting, ventilation, thermal comfort, and electrical power. Lighting, heating, and cooling unoccupied spaces is a huge source of energy waste in buildings, and many studies have shown that building occupancy profiles have a significant impact on building energy use and operational controls. Closer alignment of occupancy patterns to building equipment schedules can be an effective low-cost/no-cost energy efficiency strategy leading to more intelligent control of buildings, a better balance between occupant comfort and energy savings, and lower utility bills. This includes, but is not limited to, HVAC temperature set points, lighting schedules, and economizer schedules.
Energy Net

Peak Energy: Green Buildings In Madrid - 0 views

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buildings conservation

shared by Energy Net on 30 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 30 Dec 08
     
    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.
Hans De Keulenaer

Renewable Energy Focus - Indian and Swiss cooperation on energy efficiency in buildings - 1 views

www.renewableenergyfocus.com/...energy-efficiency-in-buildings

india switzerland buildings efficiency

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 18 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • The five-year MoU aims to reduce energy consumption in new buildings in India through building capacities and knowledge of builders, architects, engineers, laboratories, institutions and others, in the area of building energy efficiency using Swiss experience and expertise.
Hans De Keulenaer

Building Energy Efficiency at Six Times the Speed : Greentech Media - 0 views

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efficiency buildings

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 31 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 31 Aug 12
     
    FirstFuel, inverse modeling and speeding up the U.S. utility energy efficiency mandate market. "In the time it takes that entire lifecycle to happen for one building, we're doing 100 buildings, identifying 100 times more opportunities, doing 100 ...
Hans De Keulenaer

NREL Helps Cut Building Energy Use 50% - CleanTechnica - 1 views

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nrel efficiency buildings

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 30 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Commercial Buildings Program and DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are working with the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the buildings industry (see sidebar) to find ways to reduce the energy intensity of large hospitals, schools, and retail buildings by 50%.
Colin Bennett

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

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shared by Colin Bennett on 29 Nov 07 - Cached
  • 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

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

www.cascadiagbc.org/...on-the-value-of-green-building

buildings efficiency

shared by Colin Bennett on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 20 Jul 09
     
    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.
Colin Bennett

UK building regulation changes - 1 views

www.publications.parliament.uk/...101216.htm

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shared by Colin Bennett on 19 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
Energy Net

California Introduces Statewide Green Building Code : TreeHugger - 0 views

www.treehugger.com/...rnia-new-zoning-code-green.php

buildings conservation usa footprinting

shared by Energy Net on 21 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 21 Jul 08
     
    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.
Hans De Keulenaer

NFRC News Now: California's 2013 Building Energy Efficiency Standards are First Ever to... - 1 views

nfrcnews.blogspot.fr/...nias-2013-building-energy.html

efficiency buildings usa

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 05 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 05 Sep 12
     
    The California Energy Commission (CEC) recently approved the nation's most stringent energy efficiency standards for residential and commercial buildings, and the new requirements for the thermal performance of windows are expected to contribute ...
Colin Bennett

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

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buildings

shared by Colin Bennett on 23 Jan 08 - Cached
  • 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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shared by Glycon Garcia on 14 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Glycon Garcia on 14 Apr 09
     
    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

www.investorideas.com/...4062.asp

buildings

shared by Colin Bennett on 12 Apr 10 - Cached
  • 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).
frank smith

Pythagoras Solar: HomePage - 1 views

www.pythagoras-solar.com

electricity renewables efficiency windows

shared by frank smith on 09 Jul 11 - Cached
  • frank smith on 09 Jul 11
     
    Pythagoras Solar provides innovative Building Integrated Photovoltaics products which combine energy efficiency, solar power generation, and transparency to enable aesthetically-pleasing, self-powered buildings.Learn More Building Integrated Photovoltaics, by replacing common materials in the building envelope, provides the most promising solution for harnessing the sun at the point of use-the buildings where we live and work.Learn More Extending the advantages of BIPV with patent-pending optics, Pythagoras Solar delivers the industry's first transparent, high power Photovoltaic Glass Unit.Learn More NEWS GE Ecomagination Challenge winners announced NEWS GE Ecomagination Challenge "Powering Your Home" Winners Declared!
Hans De Keulenaer

Research shows many buildings may be energy efficiency goldmines | DVIRC - 0 views

www.dvirc.org/be-energy-efficiency-goldmines

buildings renovation efficiency

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 10 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • The report, according to the news source, outlined that roughly 20 percent of commercial buildings with the highest potential energy savings averaged 43 percent in potential reductions, while the bottom 20 percent averaged only 5 percent in potential savings.
Phil Slade

Greenest Jersey offices open for business - 0 views

www.greenbuildingpress.co.uk/article.php

shared by Phil Slade on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Phil Slade on 07 Nov 10
     
    "The first office building on Jersey to be built to BREEAM specifications is now occupied. Ogier, providers of offshore legal and fiduciary services, have moved into their new premises, Jersey's largest and greenest single occupancy office. The the partnership between the company, developer JCN and local building firm Camerons as the main contractor has resulted in a new landmark for St Helier. Ogier House has achieved a "very good" BREEAM rating."
Colin Bennett

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

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shared by Colin Bennett on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • 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

Energy Efficiency in Buildings - 0 views

renewables-usa.blogspot.com/...y-efficiency-in-buildings.html

buildings efficiency

shared by Colin Bennett on 02 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 02 Mar 09
     
    Each topic in the 50to50 provides an overview of the strategy, typical applications, emerging trends, links to other information resources, and the relationship of the current strategy with other carbon-reducing strategies. The strategies are specifically intended to address the carbon neutrality goal, but also provide a great base for sustainable building design.
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