Greening Existing Buildings

In Greening Existing Buildings, Jerry tackles the question of the day: how to upgrade the performance of the large stock of existing buildings, to meet the latest green building standards. This authoritative book analyzes all of the LEED for Existing Buildings Platinum projects, features more than 25 interviews with leading practitioners, more than 20 specific building upgrade case studies and numerous tables, charts and illustrations. It’s truly a “how to” book for greening anyone’s building. The book will be available in October 2009.

Jerry Yudelson is a professional engineer with an MBA. He has trained 3,500 people in the LEED green building rating system, and has chaired Greenbuild, the world’s largest green building conference, for the past five years. The founder of a green building consulting firm, he is the author of three books on green building marketing and an advisor to manufacturers, venture capital firms, design firms and developers.


“the best manual for enacting such change.”

Sustainable Industries Journal, March 2010

Look Inside This Book:

Chapter 3: Markets for Greening Existing Buildings (PDF 300KB)

Chapter 10: LEED Certification Challenges and Approaches (PDF 27MB)

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Designing a Water Efficient Community in Central Washington State

My friend Robin Rogers of Kirkland, WA, checks in with a report on her efforts to design a new water-efficiency community, Rocky Top Living, near Yakima, Washington. Robin is a longtime green housing advocate well suited for this type of missionary work. Here’s her report of a work in progress:

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