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The provincial government announced today it will invest $5 million in a program aimed at boosting solar water heating more than sixfold to 3,000 roofs across the province by 2010.
(read full article on househunting.ca)
Climate change has emerged as the dominant environmental concern of our times, and buildings, as a sector of the economy, represent the most cost-effective opportunity for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Estimating the carbon footprint of a building can be quite simple or enormously complex, depending on what one needs the estimate to do. The simple [...]
For an average office building in the U.S., 30% more energy is expended by workers getting to and from the building than the building itself uses. For an average office building built to modern energy codes, more than twice as much energy is used by commuters than by the building itself. This data suggests that [...]
LEED 2009 is currently in the Comment Process. If the process goes as planned , the final version of LEED 2009 will be presented at the GreenBuild Conference and Expo in Boston November 19-21 2008 and launched in January 2009.
Curious about the changes?
See the
LEED 2009 Vision & Executive Summary (pdf).
See and listen to a 26minutes [...]
“LEED 2009″ focuses on energy and carbon performance of buildings, transparent “weightings” and regional LEED credits
On May 19th the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) opened the first public comment period on LEED 2009, the next evolution of the LEED green building certification system. LEED 2009 represents a reorganization of the existing LEED rating systems for [...]
A few questions for our readers!
Are you an energy modeller working in the early design process of a building?
Do you have experiences with the IDP (Integrated Design Process)?
There are the following workflows/ options for energy modelling in the early design process:
1. Revit -> gbXML -> GBS (Green Buiding Studio) - Web Service
2. Square One - [...]
2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge: Digital Inclusion
Imagining a world without the Internet is nearly impossible. Despite the Internet’s global significance, less than 20 percent of the world’s 6 billion people currently have access to the educational, social and economic opportunities it can create.
The 2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge invited the global community to help address [...]
In the United States, a house built to the Passive House standard results in a building that requires space heating energy of 1 BTU per square foot per heating degree day, compared with about 5 to 15 BTUs per square foot per heating degree day for a similar building built to meet the 2003 Model [...]
What’s the true definition of “green” buildings and sustainability – and how does the “green” movement impact appraisals and the valuation process? Tune in as Theddi Wright Chappell, MAI, shares her expertise on green buildings and highlights the latest developments affecting real estate appraisers. 13:51 |
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(from the Appraisal Institute)
The Company Agilewaves has developed the Resource Monitor, which continuously measures electric, gas and water consumption of a home or business, calculates its carbon footprint in real-time and makes this information readily available on a wall-mounted touchscreen or web page.
Residential and commercial buildings account for 40% of the U.S. energy market. People and businesses want [...]
