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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Green Building Consultant pens book on sustainability for developers

From Jan Buchholz’ Phoenix Business Journal review of Green Building A to Z: For people who don’t know the meaning of zero-net-energy buildings, ecologic footprints or cradle-to-cradle design, a new book helps set the record straight about sustainability.

Ryc Loope, director of Arizona State University’s master’s degree program in real estate development, got an early peek at the softcover. He said the book will be an “invaluable” tool for developers and individuals who want to get into the green-build arena, but aren’t well versed yet. “Jerry is one of the more forward thinkers in this area,” Loope said. “He was a part of our sustainability discussion last year, and he’s back again this year.”

Posted by Jerry on 10/30/2007 at 06:59 PM

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Corporate Real Estate Chiefs Join the Green Building Revolution!

Seventy-nine percent (79%) of respondents to a recent CoreNet Global and Jones Lang LaSalle survey say that sustainability is a near-term business issue that’s important today, or will be in the next 1-2 years. The international corporate real estate organization, CoreNet Global, and Jones Lang LaSalle queried more than 2300 attendees of CoreNet Global Summits on four continents in recent months.

According to the survey, most companies are willing to pay for sustainable real estate solutions. Seventy-seven percent say they are willing to pay a premium for sustainability and 22 percent expect to pay the same. But there’s also a gap between what sustainable real estate solutions actually cost and the perception of what they will cost. 74% thought that the “green premium” was 5% or more, whereas studies indicate that designing buildings energy-efficiently, or building them to LEED certification, will cost about 1-5 percent more than conventional construction, and the incremental cost is falling.

See the full story at Environmental Leader, one of the best edited newsletters covering the corporate sustainability movement.

Posted by Jerry on 10/30/2007 at 11:57 AM

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Green Building: From Trend to Revolution!

At the end of 2006, the cumulative number of LEED-registered projects increased 50% above 2005 year-end totals to 5026, and the cumulative number of LEED-certified projects increased 67%, to 669. Current statistics through the middle of September show that the cumulative number of LEED-registered projects had increased 52% in less than nine months, on track to achieve more than 70% growth in 2007. During the same period, the cumulative number of LEED-certified projects had grown 58%, reaching nearly 1100, on track to achieve more than 80% growth during 2007. Over the same period, the number of USGBC dues-paying members grew more than 60%! Folks, this is a full-fledged revolution underway, no longer just a “trend!”

Posted by Jerry on 10/28/2007 at 02:38 PM

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Saturday, October 20, 2007

Portland Architecture blog reviews Green Building A to Z

Green Building A to Z With Jerry, from Brian Libby’s incredibly rich and diverse architecture blog, Portland Architecture:

Although he left Portland about a year ago for the more scorched pastures of Arizona, Jerry Yudelson was for many years a fixture in our city’s burgeoning green building movement, mostly for Interface Engineering. You don’t meet many people with training as an engineer and in marketing, but that is Jerry’s niche. He’s trained more than 3,000 people in the US Green Building Council’s LEED rating system and chaired the Greenbuild conference’s steering committee for four years.

Jerry seems to crank out books like other people finish the Monday crossword. His fifth and latest makes an ideal reference material for any architect, builder or green building enthusiast’s bookshelf. Published by New Society Publishers, It’s called Green Building A to Z: Understanding the Language of Green Building.

One thing that struck me as funny in the book, but in a good way, is the mixture of technical terms, philosophical ones, and the more casual. For example, there are entries for brownfields, biophilia, biodiesel, certified wood, displacement ventilation, hybrid technology, and so on. But there are also these entries: ‘cool roofs’, ‘question authority’, ‘paradigm shift’, and my personal favorite, ‘Unbridled Enthusiasm!’ I say this not to tease Jerry, but just to point out the readable nature of his book. Which is helpful, because it would be very easy for a book like this to get overly technical...and gather dust.

Posted by Jerry on 10/20/2007 at 12:37 PM

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