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Fireman's Fund Insurance Company will soon join eBay, Coca-Cola, Walmart and Google as early adopters of Bloom Energy technology with the installation of six of the company's high-tech fuel cells, the insurance firm announced today.
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Congratulations. You've been LEED certified. Think you're done? Think again. LEED isn't a destination -- it's a vehicle that can place your company on the road to sustainability.
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Taking a page out of its playbook, the Department of Energy has replaced a roof at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., with a cool roof made from light-colored material that is expected to save taxpayers $2,000 a year energy costs.
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As an attorney, I tend to think the contract is the key element to a successful construction project. Upon further review, I am convinced that to successfully manage a LEED project, an owner needs to ensure a clear RFP is drafted.
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Through the Department of Energy's Commercial Building Partnership, 24 projects will receive $21 million worth of technical assistance funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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With the economic and environmental benefits of Energy Star certification for buildings well established and widely known, why aren't more businesses taking part? There are a few key challenges building managers must overcome.
by Brian Dawson
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A survey of healthcare professionals finds widespread undervaluing of the energy and cost savings from greening hospitals, even while the majority recognizes the importance and urgency of making healthcare more energy efficient.
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In the same way that LEED has transformed architectural design to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean construction is emerging as the next big thing to revolutionize the building industry.
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What does it take to compile an environmental product declaration? For the maker of Solar Gard window films, it was a two-year project to amass data spanning the lifecycle of the product line and its impacts globally. In the end, the firm found that the products aren't just carbon neutral but also have a net positive impact on the environment.<br />
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The balance of power is swinging in Congress and many statehouses. Enthusiasm for climate and energy policy is fading and elected officials are promising massive spending cuts. So what does this mean for building energy policy?
by Andrew Burr
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Boston, Tucson and Miami-Dade County are among the eight cities and counties participating in the first comprehensive climate adaptation program developed for local governments in the United States.
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In their latest survey on the perceived benefits of green buildings, CB Richard Ellis, the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate and McGraw-Hill Construction find that sustainably managed buildings continue to provide better value, occupancy rates and worker productivity than traditional structures.
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From coast to coast, and in every professional sport, teams and their owners are making significant progress on reducing their environmental impacts, from solar-powered scoreboards to stadiums located in the heart of neighborhoods, rather than beyond city limits.
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Heading into the second day of Greenbuild, there's no shortage to the announcements coming out of companies taking part in the building industry's largest green conference and expo.
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The first wave of GreenBuild announcements that began trickling in last week has grown into a deluge, ranging from product certifications and awards to new tools and resources.
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Most people would not consider January an ideal time to plant crops, especially January in Montreal. But for Mohamed Hage, Kurt D. Lynn and Howard Resh, timing is one of the proof points of their project -- a commercial-scale rooftop greenhouse that's designed to yield produce year-round for an urban community.
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Energy efficiency companies are stepping up their work to make schools greener with Johnson Controls Inc. and Ameresco Inc. providing the latest examples of far-reaching projects to help schools conserve energy and cut utility costs.
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Kingston General Hospital has enlisted Honeywell for a $10.5-million upgrade that will bring solar power and a host of other energy efficiency measures to the 456-bed research and teaching hospital in southeastern Ontario.
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Energy efficiency giant Johnson Controls Inc. has won a contract to provide an integrated building management system including state-of-the-art heating, ventilation and air conditioning at the Holy Mosque in Makkah, Saudia Arabia -- the largest mosque in the world.
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In New Orleans, I recently met a woman known in the Crescent City as the "Demo Diva," an entrepreneur who took her personal tragedy from Hurricane Katrina and turned it into a woman-owned and -run demolition business, complete with hot pink front loader and giant Dumpster.
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A residence hall at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a Sears store in Maryland and a JCPenney in California took first, second and third place respectively in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's contest to find the biggest kilowatt loser in the country.
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Programs by Alcoa and Dow Chemical Company are among the 10 profiled by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy in a study of the successful use of social science in energy efficiency and conservation initiatives.
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The head of building materials giant talks about the link between fiberglass and carbon reduction, innovations in blades for wind energy, and how Owens Corning uses 1 billion pounds of curbside recycling to insulate our attics.
by Heather King
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GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare has begun installing 11,000 panels for a 3-megawatt solar energy system that will become the largest roof-mounted array thus far in North America.
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FedEx Corp. subsidiary FedEx Express inaugurated a solar-powered hub yesterday at the Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany. News of its launch was among the many announcements in the past month about solar projects, including installations at Massport Logan Airport, Macy's and in Canada.