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As health and wellness take on a bigger role among building decision makers, new data spells out a clear ROI for greener workplaces.
by Elsa Wenzel
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A seemingly obvious but often overlooked strategy to bring down staggering energy bills.
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Healthy, sustainable environments increase productivity.
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Kaiser, Tenet Healthcare and others have embraced wellness and environmental initiatives to improve health.
by Janet Howard
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At the end of our fifth year of giving specially trained graduate students a mandate to uncover energy inefficiency in organizations, we've learned some valuable lessons.
by Kelly Jones
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Last week, we reported that Jones Lang LaSalle surpassed its goal of having 1,000 certified sustainability professionals on its books. The USGBC has since told us which companies have the most LEED APs on their payrolls.
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Jones Lang LaSalle becomes the first commercial real estate services firm to have so many of its staff attain credentials as accredited energy and sustainability professionals from LEED, BREEAM and other global standards.
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Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to bring about sweeping culture change is to jettison old ways and jolt the existing culture into a new reality. Management experts offer a different approach.
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A new study finds that the president's plan to make existing buildings more energy efficient could also create more than 100,000 green jobs at the same time.
by Meg Waltner
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GreenBiz.com’s Heather King talks with Autodesk CEO Carl Bass about how design software helps advance building and product efficiency, the company’s "investment" in clean tech, and their drive to teach kids like Max and Maya in Oakland, Calif. how to build anything better.
by Heather King
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Can promoting green initiatives and certifying a green workplace increase productivity? And if so, what is the impact to the bottom line? Studies indicate the answer is yes on productivity, but the challenge is quantifying those gains in relation to profit. HR professionals can help forge those links between green buildings, productivity and the bottom line.
by George Boué
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With 140,000 employees around the world, Lockheed Martin launched its Earth Day initiatives a week early and brought the focus of its facilities-oriented internal green campaign to the core of the global security company: its workers.
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Increasing imbalance is looming between our eagerness for energy efficiency and our nonchalance for inclusion of human factors and the impact that our energy efficiency measures will have on human health.
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Talk about the H1N1 virus is everywhere. Training employees and building occupants on preventive measures and providing tools to sanitize their workspaces are a good start to ward off the flu and colds, but aren’t the full answer.
by John Kennedy
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The 41-story Marathon Oil Tower has been designated as a BOMA 360 Performance Building for its wide-ranging best practices in areas that include energy, water and waste management as well as green purchasing, life safety and tenant relations.
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We have all seen the numbers. If we're serious about reducing the environmental impact of buildings, addressing energy independence, using renewable energy resources, conserving water and slowing waste streams, we must make greening existing buildings a greater priority. <br />
by Ari Kobb
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U.S. Green Building Council closed its annual conference with awards to industry leaders, as the region's convention bureau hailed the estimated 28,000 building professionals who came to town for boosting the local economy by some $30 million.
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Looking to save a little money this fall and winter by turning down the thermostats in your offices? Think again before you fiddle with those temperatures settings. Doing that alone could cost you far more than you save, especially if employees take their workplace comfort into their own hands.
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People who work in green buildings are more productive than employees who don't, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate and CB Richard Ellis.