GreenBuild Blog
Portland Architecture blog reviews Green Building A to Z
Saturday, October 20, 2007Brian Libby’s well read blog, Portland Architecture, praises Green Building A to Z, with these words: 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.
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Campus Sustainability Rocks!
Friday, October 19, 2007The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), of which I’m proud to be a founding board member, now has 320 campus members. More than 400 campus presidents have signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. Green buildings will be a key part of meeting the climate commitment on all campuses, so design and construction firms should be pushing LEED Silver and Gold certification for every project.
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Ecoefficiency and Ecoeffectiveness: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Monday, October 15, 2007Architect and sustainable design expert William McDonough exhorts green building designers not to be content with just “doing less-bad” designs that put off the day of reckoning for excessive energy and water use, but to design buildings and cities that are “positively good.”
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Commissioning: An Excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s “Green Building A to Z”
Tuesday, October 02, 2007Building commissioning is a high-value-added activity that is unknown outside the building industry. Think of a ship; when construction is finished, it’s time for sea trials.
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German Cars and German Green Buildings: A Necessary Match?
Thursday, September 20, 2007German green architecture is starting to move out into the U.S. A recent visit to Behnisch Architekten in Stuttgart revealed how well they do green building using an integrated design team approach.
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Why Build It Green?
Friday, September 14, 2007The business case for green buildings is all about productivity, says green building consultant, in an interview with Matter magazine.
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Retail Green Set to Grow Dramatically!
Thursday, August 30, 2007Retail Industry Leaders Association announces a new sustainability program on August 29th. Green retail buildings certifying to the LEED standard will grow by hundreds of stores in 2008, I predict.
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Growth rates in energy-efficient lighting lead green building technologies
Wednesday, August 08, 2007The Freedonia Group’s market research into advanced lighting products shows growth rates of 14 percent annually through 2011, doubling 2006 levels to reach $4.4 billion in sales. Lighting energy conservation is a key green building technology because lower lighting power use also reduces HVAC use, both of which contribute to global carbon dioxide generation.
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Green Buildings Critical to Cutting Global Energy Demand Growth, New Report Says
Tuesday, August 07, 2007The McKinsey Quarterly reports that improving energy productivity with cost-effective green building measures could cut global demand by residential and commerical buildings by 20 percent by 2020.
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Green Developers Cash In Big-Time!
Thursday, August 02, 2007Portland, Oregon’s Gerding Edlen Development sold three of their five Brewery Block properties for $292 million, nearly $450 per square foot, a new record for Portland Class A offices. With one LEED Silver and two LEED Gold certifications, this sale shows that green development pays off.
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Cities Lead the Way to a Green Building Future, New Study Says
Wednesday, July 18, 2007The US Conference of Mayors “Survey of Mayoral Leadership on Climate Protection” shows that 60 percent of 134 cities responding to the survey already require their own new buildings to be green, with 28 percent more expecting to to have such a policy by the end of 2008.
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77% of Real Estate Executives Committed to Green Buildings
Sunday, July 15, 2007A May 2007 survey for the Urban Land Institute shows that 77 percent of real estate executives and real estate funders are committed to green buildings.
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60% of Real Estate Professionals Say Green Construction Important
Tuesday, June 12, 2007International law firm Bryan Cave LLP releases survey of 349 real estate executives. Nearly 60% expect green construction to be very important or somewhat important in real estate development plans in the next 12 to 18 months. It’s obvious that green building marketing is becoming very important for the development industry.
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LEED Registrations top 6300, green building trend accelerates!
Friday, June 08, 2007According to the US Green Building Council’s latest figures, LEED registrations for new construction topped 800 for the first four months of this year, ensuring another acceleration in the green building trend, with the likelihood of the bellwether rating system, LEED for New Construction, topping 2,000 new project registrations this year, which would represent another 50% increase in cumulative LEED-NC project registrations.
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California CEQA-el Promises more Green Buildings, says Consultant
Wednesday, May 23, 2007Newly elected California Attorney General Jerry Brown (yes, the former Governor) is pushing to have large development project environmental impact reports require a “carbon mitigation” plan, before they are certified as complete under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This should dramatically accelerate consideration of energy efficiency and other carbon mitigation strategies in new developments.
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