Green Build Bulletin | December, 2009
New Book: Greening Existing Buildings
Greening existing buildings is the next big green building trend. If we are ever to meet our carbon reduction goals, we have to dramatically improve the existing building stock. Jerry’s new book, “Greening Existing Buildings” (McGraw-Hill, 2009) recaps how to work a project through the LEED for Existing Buildings Operations & Maintenance (LEED-EBOM) rating system. LEED-EBOM has been the fastest growing LEED rating system this year. “Greening Existing Buildings” has already been named one of top 10 architecture books of 2009 in a national newsletter. You can find out why thousands of buildings are now pursuing this LEED rating by ordering this book now or by downloading free chapters.
Download free chapters of “Greening Existing Buildings” by visiting the Yudelson Associates Blog.
End of an Era: Yudelson Exits from Greenbuild Steering Committee
After 8 years of building the country’s largest green building conference, Greenbuild, Jerry Yudelson stepped down as chair of the Greenbuild Steering Committee during the closing plenary session of the 2009 event in Phoenix. Growth has been non-stop since the first conference in Austin in 2002. In fact, Greenbuild has grown 7-fold in attendance and sevenfold in exhibit space during the past eight years. Truly a smashing success! See you in Chicago next year.
Read about how Greenbuild’s success reflects green building’s global growth in our press release, “Green Building’s Global Growth Highlighted in Organizer’s Tenure.”
Free Research Report: Water-Efficiency Technology Opportunities
Yudelson Associates has just published an exciting new research report, “Water Efficiency Technologies for Mechanical Contractors: New Business Opportunities,” which you can download today from our website. You will learn about new water-efficiency technologies for green buildings and how designers and builders are incorporating rainwater harvesting and gray water reuse in dozens of new projects. Thanks again to the Mechanical Contractors Education and Research Foundation for their sponsorship.
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Green Building Keynotes: Like a Rolling Stone
Jerry Yudelson continues to travel extensively, providing leading edge information and insights at green building, architecture, construction and development events across the country and around the world.
Speeches in December and January include the Southwest Chapter of CoreNet Global, the corporate real estate leaders, in Fort Worth, TX, on the subject of European green building design and a presentation on "Selling Energy Management Solutions" at the National Association of Electrical Distributors in San Diego.
In January and February, Jerry will speak at the Australia-U.S. Energy Dialogue in Los Angeles and keynote at the GreenCities 2010 conference in Melbourne, Australia.
To make Jerry Yudelson’s presentation a highlight of your next event, please email Jerry or call +1-520-207-9759
Other News in Brief
New Yudelson Team Member on Board
Susanne Jasper, holder of a JD degree from Germany, has joined the Yudelson Associates’ staff as Marketing Coordinator. You may be hearing from her soon. We’re also using Susanne’s native German language capabilities to stay connected with green building developments in Germany.
Eco-Charretting in Texas
One of our engaging new projects was to lead an eco-charrette exploration of green building and development options for a leading urban developer in San Antonio, Texas. Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting $40 million mixed-use, residential/commercial/retail project.
New Water from The Sea
The largest desalination project in the U.S., the $360 million, 50-million gallons per day Carlsbad (CA) Desalination Project by Poseidon Resources Group is poised to sell $530 million in tax-exempt bonds to support the project, after gaining a subsidy of $250 per acre-foot of water delivered from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Groundbreaking will be early in 2010.
LEED-EBOM for Retail – New Adaptations
The next new frontier for green buildings is the retail sector. Jerry has just wrapped up two years at the Research Scholar for Retail Real Estate Sustainability for the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and is now working with the U.S. Green Building Council and a great working group to adapt LEED for Existing Buildings Operations & Maintenance (LEED-EBOM) for the retail sector. Look for some exciting new strategies for bringing all the myriad of retail types into the green building operations tent!
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