Green Build Bulletin | February, 2010
Green Planet. Green Keynotes.
Yudelson’s Speeches Span the Globe.
Yudelson Associates is pleased to announce that Jerry Yudelson will keynote the fourth annual Green Cities conference of the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) in Melbourne later this month. He will speak on February 23rd, addressing green building business and performance issues with his presentation, “If It Doesn’t Perform, It’s Not Green.” Jerry also keynoted the first Green Cities conference in Sydney in 2007, speaking then to nearly 1,000 delegates. Jerry is adamant that, in the future, all buildings will have to perform as predicted, to meet the requirements for a green label.
After Australia, this spring will find Jerry giving keynote speeches in Budapest, Hungary to the first ever Central and Eastern European green building conference in April, as well as to green building conferences in Doha, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, UAE. He’ll also be speaking in the U.S. at conferences and meetings in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Portland (OR), Houston and Pittsburgh in coming months. Jerry has crafted five new topics for his presentations in 2010.
You can download a description of these talks here.
LEEDing the way in Tucson
Yudelson Associates recently began work to provide LEED® project management services for a major corporate headquarters project in Tucson, working with a Phoenix-based developer. The ca. 250,000-sq.ft. building is aiming at LEED-NC Gold certification. We’ll keep you posted on our progress as this project moves forward.
Sustainable Campus Planning White Paper
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Research director Jaimie Galayda led our project team to support a campus sustainability master-planning project for The Ohio State University, one of America’s largest. To allow campuses to benchmark themselves against similar institutions, Yudelson Associates developed a rigorous method for selecting an applicable group of sustainability peers and distilled vast amounts of sustainability information available on the web into useful benchmarks. Contact us to find out how you can benchmark your own campus sustainability programs.
Click here to download a copy of our white paper “Campus Sustainability Benchmarking,” which reflects lessons learned from this project.
When Rivers Run Dry…
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Dry Run profiles effective responses to urban water crises |
Jerry’s next book, Dry Run: Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis, will be out by June. Click here to order the book with a prepublication discount. In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for industrial, urban and environmental reasons stirring up oceans of controversy, there is a growing thirst for innovative approaches to reducing our water footprint. Dry Run shows the best ways to manage scarce water resources and handle upcoming urban water crises.
Low-Impact Water Design @ Yale
Certified early in 2010 at the LEED Platinum level, the $34 million, 57,000-sq.ft. Kroon Hall at Yale University is a joint project of London’s Hopkins Architects and Connecticut’s Centerbrook Architects, both leading sustainable design firms. The rainwater collection system channels water from the roof and grounds to a landscape water feature in the south courtyard, where aquatic plants filter out sediment and contaminants. Treated stormwater is stored in an underground rainwater harvesting system, and then pumped back into Kroon Hall for flushing toilets and is also used for site irrigation. The system is expected to save more than 450,000 gallons of potable water and to reduce the burden on city sewers by retaining stormwater runoff onsite. In combination with water conserving plumbing fixtures, the design expects to save more than 80 percent of the annual potable water use of a conventional building and also to 100 percent of the irrigation water, according to the environmental systems designer, Atelier Ten.
