Green Build Bulletin | November, 2008
New Study Has Important Lessons for Green Contractors
New
European Mechanical Technologies and Yudelson Associates completed a study
in September for the Mechanical
Contractors Association of America (MCAA) which profiled a number
of European approaches to green buildings that can be used in the U.S.
The study can be downloaded from MCAA’s
green contractors web site.
Also, watch for another new report later this month profiling the electrical energy efficiency market. Yudelson Associates recently completed this survey of the market for the National Association of Electrical Distributors. This is the first comprehensive survey of this market from the viewpoint of electrical distribution and will be used by manufacturers and wholesalers to help set marketing and product development strategies.
Please click here to learn more about Yudelson Associates Sustainability Planning, Reports & Studies
Yudelson Associates Announces Carbon Footprint Tracking Services
Calculated your carbon footprint lately? More than 80 percent of the
250 largest companies globally are doing this right now, according to
a recent report by accounting and consulting firm KPMG. The time has come
for most companies to begin their own GHG emission accounting, reduction
and reporting programs. You can count on Yudelson Associates to assist
you in this work, in a professional and cost-effective manner, using the
most current analytical and reporting tools. If you want to get started
with carbon accounting, check
out the introduction to these services on our web site.
Green Building Books Reveal Secrets
The
secrets of successful integrated design are revealed in Jerry’s
latest green building book, Green
Building through Integrated Design. This is the first comprehensive
survey of LEED Platinum projects in the U.S. and Canada, and it reveals
how these projects used integrated design processes and methods to achieve
high-performance goals, often with no more than a conventional building
budget.
We are also pleased to report that Jerry Yudelson’s books continue to garner honors. For example, Jerry’s how-to book for buying a new green home, Choosing Green: the Homebuyer’s Guide to Good Green Homes, was a finalist in the USA Book News in the 2008 National Best Books Awards; and Jerry’s book, The Green Building Revolution, was chosen among the first offerings of the U.S. Green Building Council’s “GreenWorks Book Club.”
More Green Building Books on the Way
Jerry’s new book, Green Building Trends: Europe, is well into production and should be released by Island Press in the spring of 2009. This is the first comprehensive look at successful approaches to green building in Europe and how they can be used in the U.S.
Also, watch for Jerry’s other new book, Sustainable Retail Development, written for the International Council of Shopping Centers. This book is in the research and writing stage and expects to be released in late spring or early summer of 2009. We’re still looking for good case studies for the book, so please send your ideas to jerry@greenbuildconsult.com. Also, check out the ICSC’s new sustainability portal for tips on greening the retail sector.
LEED for Existing Buildings
Perhaps the fastest growing aspect of the green building movement is the LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) program, with more than 1,250 new projects registering for certification in the first 10 months of 2009, representing more than 500 million square feet of projects. Jerry Yudelson is one of the few national LEED-EB faculty members and our Research Director, Dr. Jaimie Galayda, recently passed the LEED Accredited Professional Exam (LEED AP) in the LEED-EB system. We’re eager to work with clients who are pursuing LEED-EB certification. If you are interested, please contact jaimie@greenbuildconsult.com to discuss your situation.
Green Building Speaker & Keynotes
September and October have taken Jerry to speak to such diverse audiences as the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contactors' National Association (SMACNA) in Maui; the Green Dubai World Forum in Dubai, UAE; the Engineering Green Buildings Conference in Las Vegas; Willamette University in Salem, Oregon; and Union Real Estate Investment’s Prime Property Awards at EXPO REAL, the largest European real estate conference. In December, Jerry returns to Frankfurt, Germany to keynote the Urban Land Institute Germany’s national awards program.
We’re eager to spread the message of what’s happening in Europe to promote zero net energy buildings, so if you know of an audience that wants to hear this message, please contact jerry@greenbuildconsult.com or for more information and to see a short video excerpt from Jerry’s green building keynotes, please click here.
Project Profile: Doxford Solar Office
Earlier
this year, Jerry had the privilege of interviewing David Lloyd Jones of
Studio E Architecture for an upcoming book on European green building
trends. Lloyd Jones is a pioneering environmental architect in the U.K.,
with a classic book, Architecture
and the Environment: Bioclimatic Building Design, written ten years
ago. Here we profile Studio E’s important green building project,
the Doxford Solar Office, that uses building integrated photovoltaics
as both an architectural statement and a significant energy contributor.
The Doxford Solar Office is located at a business park near Sunderland, in the UK. It was the first speculatively constructed office building to incorporate building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and the resulting solar façade was the largest constructed in Europe at that time. This low-energy office building, with the entire south-facing façade composed of building-integrated photovoltaics, generates 73-kW (peak) of power, a design innovation rarely seen in the U.S. or Canada. The south façade is a completely integral system built in conjunction a major German manufacturer, Schüco.
