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Monday, April 06, 2009
What is a Green Home? Chapter 2 of Choosing Green
We’ve explored why people are building and buying green homes. But what exactly do we mean by the term “green home?” Reading the first chapter, you might surmise that there are many possible definitions, depending on what features a builder includes in a home and what rating or certification system a builder uses. There are no “Consumer Reports” or “J. D. Power” ratings for green homes, as there are for cars, home appliances and so many other consumer products, so to some degree you’re on your own in looking for a green home.
To read the entire chapter, click here to download the PDF version.
Posted by Sky on 04/06/2009 at 03:00 AM
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
Green Building through Integrated Design Gets Accolades from Architectural Record
To quote from the review, “Tucson, Arizona—based engineer Jerry Yudelson offers Green Building Through Integrated Design as a practice manual, packed with actionable information and showing the design process from many professional points of view. In lengthy quotes from architects, engineers, and building owners, he gives firsthand accounts of innovative teamwork. In this, the meatiest of the three books, the author specifies the characteristics of high-performance buildings, explains LEED categories in detail, and offers no-nonsense descriptions of collaboration at each design phase. Uniquely qualified, with degrees in both engineering and business administration, and a nationally recognized expert in green design, Yudelson describes the barriers perceived by clients and presents a business case for building green. The book includes an extraordinary, 400-item list of questions to consider at successive design phases.”
Posted by Jerry on 04/02/2009 at 07:26 PM
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Monday, March 23, 2009
The Revolution in Property Management: Chapter 14 of The Green Building Revolution
Green building advocates realized early on that existing developments represent a major opportunity for achieving energy and water savings and reducing the overall environmental impacts of building operations. After all, in any five-year period, new construction and major renovations affect only a small fraction of the existing building stock. As a result, the USGBC created the LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) standard in 2004, as a means to benchmark building operations against a variety of sustainability criteria. By the end of 2006, nearly 250 projects had registered to participate in LEED- EB, and about 40 had been certified. Compared with the success of the LEED- NC program, this program has had a slow start. Nevertheless, there is considerable evidence that the LEED-EB program is poised to take off, as more organizations begin to track their carbon footprint and attempt to reduce it.
This is an excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s book, The Green Building Revolution.
To read the entire chapter, click here to download the PDF version.
Posted by Sky on 03/23/2009 at 03:00 AM
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Monday, March 09, 2009
The Business Case for Green Buildings: Chapter 3 of The Green Building Revolution
The business case for commercial green buildings is simply stated: if your next project is not a green building, one that’s certified by a national third-party rating system, it will be functionally outdated the day it’s completed and very likely to under perform the market as time passes. That bold statement has been echoed by a well-known real-estate expert, who bluntly claimed that trillions of dollars of commercial property around the world would soon drop in value because green buildings are going mainstream and would render those properties obsolete. In a meeting in Sydney, Australia, in 2007, the head of Australia’s Property Council, representing the entire development industry, claimed that no large developer in that country would ever start another project that wasn’t going to be at least LEED Silver (Australia Four Green Stars) certified. Within two years, the business case for green buildings is going to be part of “business as usual.” Jerry Lea of Houston-based Hines, a strong proponent and developer of ENERGY STAR and LEED buildings, says,“I think sustainable is here to stay. I think the definition of ‘Class A’ buildings very soon will include sustainable design and probably LEED certification.” Richard Cook, a prominent architect in New York City, says, “In five years, it will be clear that buildings not reaching the highest standard of sustainability will become obsolete.”
This is an excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s book, The Green Building Revolution.
To read the entire chapter, click here to download the PDF version.
Posted by Sky on 03/09/2009 at 03:00 AM
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