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Overcoming Barriers to Green Building...

Posted by Ken Gardner in Green Business on 06 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Commercial real estate has been notably ahead of residential when it comes to green practices—with office buildings leading the way. The most successful examples frequently involve owner occupants and multi-generational real estate families that have a long-term view. All too often green building is impeded by finger-pointing and adversarial relationships between building owners and their tenants. Progress can be delayed indefinitely while disagreements about who’s responsible for implementing the green agenda are sorted out. Other barriers to green building include...

Millions for Energy-Efficient Building T...

Posted by Ken Gardner in Green Business on 06 22nd, 2010 | 3 Comments

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced June 17th awards totaling more than $76 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support advanced energy-efficient building technology projects and the development of training programs for commercial building equipment technicians, building operators, and energy auditors. The 58 projects selected today will help make the nation’s buildings more energy efficient and cost-effective. They will also support programs to train workers to service and operate new and existing buildings, to develop and...

Bank of America Building: A New Green St...

Posted by Ken Gardner in Green Business on 06 15th, 2010 | No Comments

If you’re planning to visit the brand new Bank of America (BOA) building in midtown Manhattan, make sure not to use any Purell before you go. The 8,000 people who work in the crystal-shaped, glass skyscraper at the corner of 42nd St. and Sixth Avenue may not object to the ubiquitous hand sanitizer, but the building itself would. The tower’s air circulation system is equipped with sensors to detect what are known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and a rapidly evaporating substance like Purell is full of them. You might well think that an office building...

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