Thank God for the good people over at University of California, as they have made an ENTIRE set of LEED-EB documentation available in pdf format for FREE online!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (
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I don’t know if you’ve experienced similar issues in the past week or so, but I haven’t been able to log into any of my projects, much less edit them, in at least a week. I can sign in (only took 44 seconds on my last attempt), then I click on the project, and [...]
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Way back on August 13, GBLU’s inaugural post focused on the impending green building litigation and factors that would cause the litigation. One of the factors that was described focused on parties’ financial expectations: “Parties undertaking green building projects for purely financial reasons will expect to make a profit.” In order to make a profit [...]
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On September 15, I had the opportunity to serve as a judge for the Associated General Contractors of DC’s Washington Contractor Awards for green buildings. Tabbed the “2008 Anti-Boring Event of the Year,” contractors from across the D.C. metro area will gather on October 7 to honor this year’s award recipients. I reviewed and voted [...]
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Building on the previous post on energy modeling, there is another introduction to the process posted over at BuildingGreen called “Understanding the Energy Modeling Process: Simulation Literacy 101″. Great read for beginners such as myself.
I found out about the above article thanks to Suzanne O’Leary of ThinkDwell–a company that designs homes making the occupants [...]
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The US Green Building Council is seeking four (4) regional advocacy consultants to assist in coordinating and maximizing the advocacy work of our 78 chapters across the country. The regional advocacy consultants will work at the state, county and local government level to coordinate and assist our chapters in developing and implementing public policy strategies [...]
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I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how LEED requirements are incorporated into the building’s specs lately, in no small part due to the fact that I had to give a presentation on the subject last week. The result has been an interesting discussion on the 4specs discussion board (skip down to Anne [...]
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