Buildings & Facilities
Buildings and Facilities
- It aims to address social justice and equity issues, including diversity, worker rights, health care and occupational safety.
- The tool gives facilities a score for their water management efforts by shedding light on water use and prioritizing opportunities for conservation.
- Water pricing, the business value of water and the human right to water are all issues that businesses face, especially in developing nations.
- Lack of data for building automation control systems can create a host of problems and cost organizations money.
- New technologies that enable billions of devices to collect and analyze data can help systems operate with startling efficiency.
- Footwear company's greenENERGY Fund invests in a portfolio of efficiency projects that target a strict 20 percent annual return on capital.
- Large commercial and residential buildings must report annual energy and water use, but aren't required to act on the results.
- Implementing a measurement and verification plan is essential to meet facility sustainability goals.
- Smart, connected buildings currently promise more than they can deliver, at least if we don't pass the baton properly from design teams to operations teams.
- The federal government estimates we can save $40 billion annually by reducing energy use in commercial buildings 20 percent by 2020.
- Everyone has a role to play in making and using building products make without unhealthy chemicals.
- How the education sector has doubled its green share in four years can give us a glimpse at what a mature green building market looks like.
- The maker of intelligent sensor technology that increases energy efficiency in buildings has raised $20 million in its latest round of funding.
- The Big Apple's transportation department chief of staff gives a sneak peek at the major savings from a city-wide shift to LEDs.
- A new initiative by NREL aims to create tablet-based software for quickly building energy models during an audit.
- Michigan State University needed something to measure the impact of different decisions against a set of key environmental metrics.
- The new wastewater treatment system promises to be smaller and more cost-effective than others on the market.
- Today marks World Water Day and tomorrow is Earth Hour (or Human Achievement Hour, if you're a crackpot).
- Architects have a historic opportunity to transform the ever-growing built environment's impact for the better.
- The startup’s universal energy metric helps companies determine which initiatives will save it the most money.
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