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Sustainable Facilities – The Standard of the Future

By Keith Pehl on June 23, 2010 2 Comments commercial construction, energy efficiency, energy modeling, energy usage, environment, environmental impacts, facility, indoor air quality, LEED Platinum, lighting wattage, maintenance practices, natural resources, net zero-energy buildings, operational practices, Optima Engineering, reduced energy usage, renewable energy, responsible business practice, rooftop solar thermal systesa, solar photovoltaic systems, sustainability, sustainable buildings, sustainable design, sustainable facilities, Water conservation

Sustainable Facilities – The Standard of the Future

Much like the term “fast track” that was popular several years ago, the terms “sustainable” and “energy efficiency” should be part of every building design. You don’t hear the term “fast track” anymore. It was a new concept of speeding up design and construction to deliver a facility faster, but now it is standard operating procedure. Everyone wants their project fast-tracked. I want the same thing to happen for sustainable design.

Hot Topics: Green Building – How are We (designers, engineers, etc.) Handling The Evolutionary Process Toward Integrative Design?

By Tracey de Morsella on January 5, 2010 2 Comments aia, Alex de Parry, Ann Arbor Builders, Architectural Design, Autodesk, BIM, Build2Sustain, Building Museum, Carbon Factor, Consensus Doc, construction management, contract for Integrated design, cost-plus-a-fee contract, Denis Du Bois, designers, Duke Farms Foundation, energy modeling, Energy Priorities, engineers, Frank Dalene, green building, Hamptons Green Alliance, Hamptons Luxury Homes, iLiv, Integrated Design, integrated design process, Integrated Project Delivery, integrative design, IPD, Joe Richmond, John Hatzung, Joseph Wyatt, Karen Tucker, Krystyna Bukowiecki, LEED, LEED certification, LEED-AP, LinkedIn, Mark Robertson, Mark Yerkes, MESA Landscape Architects, negotiated contract, owners, P5 Group, Patrick Doss-Smith, Pride Energy Solutions, Raquel Bedell, remodel, Retrofit, SK8 Architectural Design Solutions, sustainable building, T.J. Harris Incorporated, Telemark, Tom Powers, U.S. Green Building Council, USGBC, Wight & Company

Hot Topics: Green Building – How are We (designers, engineers, etc.) Handling The Evolutionary Process Toward Integrative Design?

A two weeks ago, Karen Tucker, Director of Customer Development at iLiv, posted the following question on the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Linkedin Group. Green Building and LEED: How are we (designers, owners, engineers, etc.) handling the evolutionary process toward integrative design?