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 [...]
Green Squared VP Business Development, Phil Stringer and President, Bobby Bragg, attended the CATEE (Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency) 2010 conference last week in Austin, Texas. Here are some notes from the conference: The conference was opened by Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell, C. Donald Babers, Regional Administrator for Region VI, U.S. HUD and Texas Public [...]
A new report out by Deloitte on Sustainability has some very interesting nuggets about sustainability in general. One caveat: the survey was of only 48 people who are in charge of sustainability for their companies. I think that sample size is too small. And, given these folks’ role in the organization, I am afraid their [...]
I love these types of stories…Tishman Speyer turned your average 23-year old downtown Manhattan office building into a LEED Gold building by doing nothing out of the ordinary. That’s right, no wind turbines, solar panels, or geothermal digs. David Roth of gbNYC (Green Building in NYC) nails it with “What happened at 375 Hudson is [...]
Green Squared has graciously been invited by the Commercial Real Estate Women of Dallas (“CREW”) to discuss “Cost Effective Strategies for Greening Existing Buildings”. Andy Smith, our Chief Engineering Officer, and Bobby Bragg, our President, will lead the discussion. Here is the complete release: CREW DALLAS TO LEARN ABOUT GREENING EXISTING BUILDINGS. Here is the [...]
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