Keynoting Australia’s Green Cities 2010 Conference
Last month, I was invited again to keynote Green Cities 2010 in Melbourne by the Property Council of Australia and the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). My presentation, “If it doesn’t perform, it can’t be green,” was aimed at creating a sense of urgency in green building projects to aim for high energy savings targets (and to hit them).
You can email me to get a copy of the presentation. Basically, I pointed out that Architecture 2030 goals call for saving 80 percent of a building’s energy use compared with 2005 averages, but that most LEED certified projects are hitting about the 30 percent level, far below where we need to be to see a major reduction of carbon emissions from the building sector. I suggested that projects that don’t hit their predicted energy goals have their scores reduced to levels consistent with actual performance and, if they fall below minimum LEED performance standards, have their certification revoked. This would bring “truth in advertising” to LEED certification and lead design/construction teams to be more realistic about securing energy performance in new construction. My host Romilly Madew, CEO of the GBCA, emailed me later, saying: “the feedback from your session was fantastic; people talked about all the take-away’s they got from your talk.”
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