Finding ways to better share monthly aggregated energy data from utilities to building owners and operators is critical to understanding and improving building performance across our country. But it’s easier said than done, requiring cooperation among local industry stakeholders including building owners, utilities, governments and advocacy groups. On Jan. 24, a group of these stakeholders from across Minnesota gathered in Minneapolis to discuss ways to improve the flow of building data in the state.
Posts from February 2013
GSA On the Right Track with Green Buildings and LEED: Now’s Your Chance to Help Them Stay There
Earlier today, GSA released a request for information (RFI), publicly lauding the value of green building rating systems like LEED and asking for additional input into important issues that could help GSA accelerate and improve its green building work. With the direction laid out in today’s RFI, it looks like GSA is on the right track to continue its success.
Campus Conservation Nationals 2013 Kicks Off!
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Today marks the start of the third Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN) – the largest nationwide electricity and water reduction competition on college and university c…
New Partnership Set to Accelerate Study of Green Building, Human Health
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Chris Pyke
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Our buildings usually keep us safe and comfortable, but sometimes their de…
Public Health Gets a Place at the Design Table
Imagine a world in which buildings and communities clearly and definitively help to prevent some of our most widespread illnesses, improve our mental health, and strengthen our overall wellbeing. We are now one step closer to this place after this week’s Summit on Green Buildings & Human Health, hosted by the US Green Building Council. If there’s one thing that I took away, it’s the enormous potential of public health professionals joining forces with the green building community to significantly improve human health and wellbeing.
Healthy Places are a Human Right
On Wednesday, I walked into our boardroom at USGBC for our Green Building & Human Health Summit and I got goose bumps. Of the hundred or so folks in the room, many have been with us forever, long-time leaders in the green building movement and I’m always humbled when I’m in their company.