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Green Building Megatrend Predictions by Jerry Yudelson Featured in Builder Magazine
Monday, January 30, 2012
Dubbed “the godfather of green,” Jerry Yudelson discusses 10 trends bound for growth in the months ahead.
Jerry Discusses Net Zero Energy Greenbuilding at 2011 Greenbuild Toronto
Friday, January 06, 2012
In this interview for Building Design & Construction at 2011 Greenbuild Toronto, Jerry covers three key points in the business case for net zero energy greenbuilding.
Ten Green Building MegaTrends for 2012
Monday, December 12, 2011
Green building will continue its rebound globally in 2012 in spite of ongoing economic difficulties in most developed economies. What we’re seeing is that more people are building green each year, and there is nothing on the horizon that will stop this MegaTrend or its constituent elements.
Singapore Leads the Way in Greening Existing Buildings
Monday, November 28, 2011
In October 2009, Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA) opened of the Zero Energy Building (ZEB) located on BCA’s Waddell Road campus.
Western Australia’s Greenest Building Sets High Design Standards
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Located in Perth’s central business district, 2 Victoria Avenue is a 7,185-square-meter (77,000-sq.ft.), four-story Class-A office building, designed to be a benchmark for new sustainable office developments.
First LEED Gold Green Building in the Czech Republic
Friday, September 23, 2011
What once served as a dumping ground for hazardous waste is now the site of one of the greenest buildings in the Czech Republic. CSOB, a commercial bank, member of KBC Group, decided to consolidate its headquarters offices in southwest Prague, and developed the first LEED Gold certified building in the country.
San Francisco Bay Area Ohlone College Leads the Way in Green Building
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Ohlone College President Douglas Treadway insisted that the Newark Center for Health Sciences and Technology building prioritize sustainability principles throughout the design, construction, and operation phases. The state-of-the-art research and teaching facility, housing laboratories, classrooms, offices, a library, and an exercise center, was completed in January 2008 and awarded a LEED for New Construction Platinum certification.
Sustainable Building Visit: Marketable 2000 Sq. Ft. Tucson Home is “Super Energy Efficient”
Monday, September 05, 2011
Michael Ginsburg’s ENERGY STAR rated beautiful, 4 BR, 2 BA ranch style home includes radiant heating AND cooling in the concrete floor slab and 3.4-kW of solar photovoltaics on the roof, and uses 80% less energy than a conventional home.
My Top Ten Green Building Trends for 2011
Tuesday, December 28, 2010It’s that time of the year again for predictions! As a green building and sustainability consultant, I get a front row seat and a good view into the industry. Here, modestly offered, are my ten top trends, plus two emerging trends. Number 1: worldwide, green building’s rapid growth is the most prominent trend. Let me hear from you. What are your picks for the Top Green Building Trends of 2011?
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Time to Put Rainwater Harvesting into Every Green Building Project?
Monday, August 09, 2010One of my favorite green building technologies is rainwater harvesting: the capture, treatment and use of rainwater for uses inside the building such as toilet flushing and cooling-tower makeup water (to replace water lost by evaporation and back-flushing). This is such a simple and obvious thing to do in much of the country that one wonders why it has taken so long to be considered as a viable new water supply. Why harvest rainwater? There are many good reasons, starting with the fact that rainwater is high-quality water. Shouldn’t every green building project harvest rainwater? See Chapter 9 of my new book, Dry Run: Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis, for a fuller discussion of using water that nature gives us for free.
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Avoiding Future Urban Water Management Crises
Monday, August 09, 2010Expected global warming in this century will cause significant problems for urban water management unless more water agencies begin to incorporate conservation and water use efficiency as integral parts of their future supply planning. In my book, Dry Run: Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis, Chapter 4, I explore methods by which cities have addressed these crises in the past decade.
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The Water/Energy Nexus: Saving Water Saves Energy & Reduces Emissions
Monday, August 02, 2010Water and energy are inextricably linked, now and forever. Water is required to supply energy and energy is required to supply of water. This dynamic is called “the water/energy nexus.”
It takes electric power to move water from one place to another, to pump it from rivers and groundwater, to treat it before use and to treat it (as wastewater) after use. Today, an estimated 1 kWh of electricity is required to treat and distribute 1,000 gallons of potable water. Multiply that by tens of billions of gallons, and you have a lot of energy use!
The New Normal in Building Construction? Redirect your Marketing Focus!
Monday, August 02, 2010With everyone hoping for a speedy recovery in building construction, there is disturbing new evidence that the New Normal is far less construction that we’ve been used to and, with that, less business for design and construction firms. The ENR report on US construction through the end of May shows disturbing trends. Top that with the expected disaster in refinancing commercial office loans coming due through 2012 and you have a distressed situation that won’t go away anytime soon. (See you again in 2015?)
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New opportunities abound for water technologies
Saturday, July 31, 2010My latest article in HPAC Engineering magazine highlights some of the major opportunities in the water technology field. Water likely will be the next big environmental crisis in the United States, probably first in the West/Southwest, then extending to rapidly growing metropolitan areas throughout the nation. The crisis likely will come as a result of drought and/or lack of funds for infrastructure upgrades to provide new supply sources.
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Exciting new video for my new book Dry Run: Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis
Friday, July 30, 2010My production team at Combridges has gone all out and produced a great new video about my new book, Dry Run. Take a look for yourself and see why “Blue is the New Green” and why you need to be informed about the coming wter crises and what we can do to forestall them.
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