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Yudelson to Keynote Green Building Conferences Worldwide
Tue, June 01, 2010 - 1:35:41Green building consultant Jerry Yudelson keynotes conferences in Doha, Abu Dhabi, Budapest and Singapore.
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The Greening of Shopping Centers
Tue, July 22, 2008 - 6:13:22As the green wave rolls across the shopping center industry, it is buoyed by a handful of shopping center developers that have turned the tide inside their own organizations, and made sustainability a rising priority.
Download this Chain Store Age article featuring an interview with Jerry Yudelson.
Forward into the Past?
Thu, November 29, 2007 - 4:51:33I thought of titling this column, “Back to the Future,” in honor of older technologies for buildings being rediscovered and re-purposed, such as daylighting for health and vitality, natural ventilation instead of forced drafts, operable windows to catch a spring breeze and even radiant floor heating to warm all those cold feet. With modern sensors, electronic control technologies and building automation systems, we can make just about any technological system for building comfort perform well. But sustainability in and for the built environment requires a greater leap of the imagination and a broader understanding of the human purpose.
Click here to read this article at iGreenBuild.com.
Green Transformation Requires New Ways of Thinking
Wed, November 21, 2007 - 1:54:00Green building is hot, and one of it’s leading evangelists is Jerry Yudelson, P.E. The founder of a green building consultancy, Yudelson Associates in Tucson, Arizona, and author of the recently released Green Building A to Z shared his ideas with PE about the professional engineer’s role in going green.
Download Jerry’s interview with the journal of the National Society of Professional Engineers.
LEED-ing the way
Fri, October 26, 2007 - 11:29:00In his first international column for the UK’s Building magazine website, Jerry provides an overview of the US Green building market and predicts a movement in the next year from a green building “trend” to a green building “revolution.”
Click here to read this article at Building online.
Lean and Green - The New Sustainability Paradigm
Sun, June 17, 2007 - 10:11:45What do a Toyota Prius and a Platinum LEED green building have in common? Both are elegant solutions to a wide range of problem statements, and both come with some cost premium. They both represent a quantum leap in quality and performance from “yesterday’s standard” to something that will be a viable product well into the future.
Click here to read this article at igreenbuild.com
Marketing Green Buildings
Wed, May 23, 2007 - 9:23:00Marketing should not be a four-letter word for the green-building industry. The truth is, no one really knows what engineers have accomplished on a job if they do not speak, write, and tell stories about it. The following article offers four practical steps to green-building marketing.
Click here to read this article at hpac.com
First, Let’s Kill All The Lawyers
Thu, May 17, 2007 - 11:55:00Shakespeare may have had it right in Henry VI: to relieve the oppression of the common person, getting rid of lawyers might be a good first step. Nonetheless, we are stuck with them, so what do they have to do with green buildings?
Click here to read this article at igreenbuild.com
The Keys to Marketing Green Building
Tue, May 01, 2007 - 9:55:00There is no single competitive response to the growing green building market that is right for every design firm. This series describes seven good ideas for developing a marketing strategy.
Click here to read this article csemag.com
Isn’t it Time for a Slow Building Revolution?
Mon, April 09, 2007 - 12:03:38Just like the slow food movement, the “slow building” revolution focuses on creating designs that are appropriate for a given bioregion, taking into account climate, natural resources, local economies, indigenous building styles and cultural values.
Click here to read this article at igreenbuild.com
