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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Green Building Books Signings Next Week at Greenbuild in Phoenix
I’ll be signing Greening Existing Buildings at the McGraw-Hill booth at 10 am on Wednesday November 11th, on the show floor. On Thursday, November 12th, at 1:00 pm at the Conference Bookstore, I’ll be signing Green Building Trends: Europe, my new book for Island Press. Hope to see you there!
Posted by Jerry on 11/05/2009 at 05:36 PM
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Company News • (0) Comments • PermalinkWednesday, November 04, 2009
New Water Technologies for Green Buildings
The Mechanical Contracting Education & Research Foundation (MCERF), the foundation of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America, Inc. (MCAA) in late October released a new research study. “Water-Efficiency Technologies for Mechanical Contractors: New Business Opportunities,” prepared by Jerry Yudelson of Yudelson Associates, explains how anticipated water shortages could result in unprecedented opportunities for mechanical contractors, technology suppliers and engineering consultants to supply water conservation technologies. The report anticipates that public policy will soon focus on water conservation, water efficiency technologies and onsite water treatment and reuse. The report reviews and profiles many opportunities that this will present for mechanical contractors—from water efficiency audits to rainwater harvesting, gray water reuse, high-efficiency fixtures and cooling tower water conservation.
Posted by Jerry on 11/04/2009 at 11:20 AM
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(0) Comments • PermalinkSunday, November 01, 2009
Markets for Greening Existing Buildings: Chapter 3 of Greening Existing Buildings
RREEF Research reported in February 2009 its expectation that “major real estate markets—the markets where institutional investors focus their attention—will be pushed even faster to the tipping point where green building becomes the market standard.” The research predicts that older, less-efficient conventional buildings will actually have their market value discounted in the years ahead. Even with the continuing global economic recession, government policies will continue to accelerate the push toward greener buildings, as will tenant demand, especially from corporate real estate executives. There is also “no pronounced indication that major institutions are pulling back from their greening commitments” as investors. In this context, greening existing buildings, especially upgrading energy efficiency, can be seen as a “defensive strategy,” since these less-efficient properties risk “market decay” in the form of lower rents and higher vacancies, “as tenants increasingly migrate to more modern, greener buildings.”
This is an excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s book, Greening Existing Buildings
To read the entire chapter, click here to download the PDF version.
Click here to order this book from Amazon.com.
Posted by Sky on 11/01/2009 at 09:46 AM
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(0) Comments • PermalinkSaturday, October 17, 2009
New book tells inside story of Civano development in Tucson
“Inside the Civano Project: A Case Study of Large-Scale Sustainable Neighborhood Development” is the first book in ages to tell the inside story of a “bottoms up” effort by activists in Tucson to create an energy and water-efficient community with a New Urbanist flavor, with a special focus on using the abundant solar energy of the Sonoran desert. What makes the book especially interesting is the extensive interviews with the participants. The effort succeeded: today Civano is the largest sustainable mixed-use community in the country and a great model for others to visit. What’s also interested is that the development’s 60 percent reduction in heating and cooling energy and 55 percent reduction in potable water use is documented each year. And, what I find even more unusual, in Civano’s first phase, there are only two private pools for 600 homes, with everyone else using the two easy-to-walk-to community pools. Even in the current marketplace for home sales, Civano’s build-out continues, as more people are drawn to its community feeling.
Posted by Jerry on 10/17/2009 at 10:56 AM
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