Green Build Bulletin | August, 2009
Learning from Europe’s Green Building Examples
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| Green Building Trends: Europe |
Jerry Yudelson spent two years researching his new book, Green Building Trends: Europe, which documents the latest European sustainable technologies, cutting-edge ideas and green home trends. Citing primarily examples from Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, Yudelson’s book showcases the work of leading architects and engineers involved with many of the continent’s exemplary green buildings.
“Designing green buildings isn’t rocket science, but it is building science” says the green building consultant. “In this book, I clearly demonstrate that we can have beautiful, high-performance, super-green buildings, using best-in-class technologies and systems, with the knowledge we already have, but don’t use very much. We’re 10 years behind the Europeans and need to start catching up.”
- Click here for more information about Jerry Yudelson’s new book: Green Building Trends: Europe.
- Click here to view a two-minute video where Jerry shares the key ways that Europeans approach green building differently. (Available in HD.)
- Click here to download Chapter 1 of this book for FREE, and learn about the Passivhaus concept which shows how Europeans are reducing energy use by up to 90 percent in new home construction, without sacrificing windows, fresh air or comfort. Jerry predicts that this approach will revolutionize homebuilding in the US in the near future.
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Green Building Keynotes
Jerry Yudelson has become one of the most sought after keynote speakers at green building-related events. Recent keynotes included talks at a major aerospace/defense contractor’s corporate meeting, a green real estate conference in Toronto, a Singaporean government delegation at Carnegie Mellon University, and a conference of business leaders in Phoenix.
Jerry’s latest green building keynote topic incorporates content from his new book on European Green Building best practices. It’s entited “What do they know that we don’t… and should?” It covers what we all can learn from sustainable design advances in Europe. This is an ideal topic for meetings of architects, engineers, builders and developers, as well as government groups.
To invite Jerry to speak at your next conference, workshop or corporate meeting, contact Jerry to discuss your programming needs for 2009 and 2010.
New Consulting & Research Projects
Some of Yudelson Associates’ significant recent assignments include creating a sustainability master plan for a major university, providing marketing consulting for a startup software company, offering business consulting for a lighting manufacturer and a modular building company, and implementing LEED training for a design/build company in the Midwest. Our research director and sustainability expert, Jaimie Galayda, PhD, is one of the best of a new breed of ecological economists. We look forward to hearing how we may be of service to your organization.
Best of the Blog
- Learn How Centralized Solar Power Plants Threaten the Environment www.greenbuildconsult.com/blog/centralized-solar-power-plants-threaten-environment-in-the-west
- Discovery How a Sustainability Focus Can Make You Money www.greenbuildconsult.com/blog/sustainability-focus-makes-you-money-says-new-report/
- Read a Free excerpt on Platinum Buildings from Jerry Yudelson’s book, “Green Building A to Z: Understanding the Language of Green Building”
www.greenbuildconsult.com/blog/platinum-buildings-an-excerpt-from-green-building-a-to-z-understanding-the-
Click here to check out these postings and more on The Yudelson Associates Blog
More Books Coming Soon
Watch for our fall releases: Sustainable Retail Development (no, it’s not an oxymoron!), with worldwide coverage of green retail, to be published by Springer; and Greening Existing Buildings (the next big thing), an exciting McGraw-Hill/Greensource book, with the latest on how to manage high-performance green retrofits. We’ve seen the page proofs on both books, and they are really going to be great references for anyone involved in sustainable design/development.
