According to Chris Pyke, the USGBC’s VP of Research, the LEED market has moved towards existing buildings. USGBC’s certifications for LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) jumped sharply from less than 15% of all certifications in early 2008 to more than 35% in second-quarter 2010. At the same time, the proportion of LEED for New Construction [...]
I just got this in an email from the DOE: The US installed 10,010 megawatts of wind generation capacity in 2009, breaking the U.S. installation record for the third consecutive year. I thought I’d share with the class.
In the September issue of Houston Construction News, Green Squared was asked a myriad of questions about green building trends. Here are some of the highlights: + The City of Houston itself uses almost 500 million kilowatt hours of green power annually, which accounts for a third of all its consumption. + Green is not [...]
I’m a big believer in the theory that “what gets measured, gets done.” It is a corollary to the management practice of “what gets bonus-ed, gets done.” As we mentioned last week here, there are already 1.7 million smart meters deployed in Texas, and 6 million will be deployed by 2013. This article from the [...]
According to this Enviromental Leader article, four Fairmont hotels in Canada are saving over $800,000 annually though several projects that include solar, hydro, and wind energy, a lighting retrofit and heat recovery that will cost between $15,000 to $500,000 – the payback time is between two to five years. Here’s a quick run-down of several [...]
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