When I first read about Energy Ace’s LEED certification guarantee, I thought it was nuts.
Then I read a Co-Star article and realized Energy Ace’s guarantee was brilliant.
When I read a green building regulation, I always look at the enforcement mechanism. And when I look at a green building contract, I always focus [...]
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Yesterday afternoon I received a newsletter from Energy Ace, a commissioning and LEED services firm out of Atlanta, with the headline “LEED Certification, or Your Money Back”. Unnecessary comma’s aside I found this to be a rather startling claim. Reading further into [...]
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Energy Ace Inc., an Atlanta-based sustainability consulting firm, has publicly announced it will guarantee LEED certification for its projects. Of course, there are limitations to the guarantee:
"Energy Ace is guaranteeing LEED™ certification on projects where the firm is able to oversee LEED™ administration, Fundamental Commissioning and Energy Modeling, and where the project team is [...]
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This week, we are going to be looking at an issue near and dear to me: guarantees of LEED certification. Two publications from last week made clear to me the wide variety of views on the issue:
(1) Washington Business Journal’s On [...]
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Sometimes, my fair city of Washington, D.C. can drive me crazy. There is no doubt we have our issues.
But one thing Washington, D.C. has going for it is its push to become more green. D.C. is at the forefront of the green building movement and it is taking full advantage of American [...]
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Thanks to a heads-up from Wes Sullens of StopWaste.Org, Real Life LEED is happy to announce another full set LEED NCv2.2 documentation is available online! To see links to other complete sets of documentation just click here.
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Perhaps equally helpful is a well prepared case study that explains some [...]
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If you are looking for green building projects resulting directly from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, then the General Services Administration is the agency for you. The GSA received $5.5 billion to support its High Performance and Sustainable Buildings program. Previously, I had reported that the GSA was requiring LEED certification and preferred LEED [...]
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