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.

We told you this was coming, H-towners. The city of Houston announced a new initiative called the Green Office Challenge with the goal of getting property owners and managers across the city to reduce their energy consumption, water use and waste, as well as encourage more office tenants to do things like recycle, car pool [...]

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 [...]