Archive for the ‘LEED’ Category
Friday, July 17th, 2009
Cost/benefit analysis is certainly nothing new. Leed 2009 NC adds a new twist when your design team compares maximum LEED points against maximum potential energy savings from on-site solar.
Project budgets are especially tight in the current economic downturn, and a 'least cost' point strategy may be attractive. LEED 2009 ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
LEED 2009 introduces new standards for on-site solar power: "To encourage and recognize increasing levels of on-site renewable energy self-supply to reduce environmental and economic impacts associated with fossil fuel energy use."
What are the basics, and what are the implications for LEED point calculations and actual energy cost reductions? What ...
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Ten skyscrapers, planned and under construction, are described as the "Greenest Skyscrapers in the World". As exquisite as they are ambitious, these buildings represent a milestone in environmental design. From rotating towers layered with horizontal wind turbines, to a giant wing designed to funnel wind into turbine tubes, to wind ...
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