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Building green gets results: Bottom-line benefits of sustainable buildings
Published Jul 13, 2007 in NJPA Real Estate Journal
Excerpt: Commercial building professionals are demanding better facility performance and greater energy efficiency. This has led to phenomenal growth in the high-performance green building industry throughout this country, according to the US Green Building Council (USGBC). Why is green on the upswing? The bottom-line benefits of highly efficient buildings are becoming critical in light of rising energy costs, government pressure to reduce energy consumption and climate change emissions, as well a public need for better places to live, work, heal, learn, shop and play...[Full Article]
Ice used to keep New York office buildings cool
Published Jul 13, 2007 in The Associated Press
Excerpt: NEW YORK: As the summer swelters on, skyscrapers and apartments around New York will be cranking up the air conditioning and pushing the city's power grid to the limit. But some office towers and buildings have found a way to stay cool while keeping the air conditioning to a minimum -- by using an energy-saving system that relies on blocks of ice to pump chilly air through buildings...[Full Article]
Trade Show Report: American Society of Healthcare Engineers
Published Jul 11, 2007 in Healthcare, Construction & Operations News
Excerpt: ...Trane, a supplier of HVAC systems and building controls, introduced its new Critical Hospital Systems Dashboard for healthcare facilities. The system allows hospital staff to continuously view, monitor, track and report environmental conditions in critical areas from a single location. It monitors temperature, humidity, energy and relative pressure, and alerts staff of sudden changes or malfunctions in the facility’s systems.[Full Article]
Finding the Gold in Green Building
Published Jul 9, 2007 in Business Week
Excerpt: Consider for a moment that Americans spend 90% of their time indoors. The built world surrounds us. It covers the landscape and gets bigger every day: Schools, homes, and office towers are totems to our civilization. To know this is to understand the enormous implications of the shift toward environmentally sustainable construction.[Full Article]
Ice Storage Save Energy in New York City Area
Published Jul 2, 2007 in The News: AC/Heating/Refrigeration
Excerpt: Ice storage-based air conditioning systems are gaining renewed interest thanks to incentive-laden projects in the New York City area. The incentives come from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) that offers "financial and technical assistance initiatives to help with identifying and installing projects which address energy efficiency needs in a way that improves the environment, and lessens our dependence on foreign oil," said Peter Smith, president of NYSERDA...[Full Article]
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