Stimulating rooms, engaging speakers, and high-quality content are three reasons why you’ll want to join the Education Nation at Greenbuild 2013! The education program this year is our best yet. Take a look at what I’m looking forward to the most:
Stimulating rooms, engaging speakers, and high-quality content are three reasons why you’ll want to join the Education Nation at Greenbuild 2013! The education program this year is our best yet. Take a look at what I’m looking forward to the most:
Want to know more about LEED v4 and the concepts it’s built on? This year, USGBC will release three separate webinar series to help prepare you for success, starting with Introduction to LEED v4. The first webinar series is offered free of charge and includes two sessions:
This article is part of a series of stories from USGBC’s community celebrating 20 years of green building triumphs. Take a walk down memory lane with USGBC, as we reflect on favorite moments and share memories from the last 20 years. Share your own green building triumphs using #USGBC20.
One of the duties of my summer internship at USGBC includes tracking green building policies around the world. While this task is far too big to wrap up in mere months, I am beginning to recognize trends in different regions of the world. Two recent articles caught my attention, as they each offer interesting insights and provide supporting evidence for green building policy trends.
Well, not a week – actually just a Thursday, and yet again, I’m still—as always—amazed at the breadth and depth of the people that are part of our community and the work they do.
Here’s our weekly collection of green building clips:
Energy-saving program launched with $100 million commitment, Journal Sentinel. Milwaukee has pledged that buildings in the city totaling 5 million square feet will cut their energy intensity by 20 percent by 2020.
Continuous improvement ensures that the LEED rating systems stay relevant in a time when policies, technologies and the needs of the industry are constantly changing. In the last three years, residential construction energy codes rapidly have become more stringent, a trend we anticipate will continue. The updates in LEED v4 (the newest version of LEED for Homes) respond to these changes, and now USGBC aims to update the 2008 version of LEED for Homes by beginning an official update process.
Contact your senators today and tell them to vote “NO” on any anti-LEED amendments and “YES” on Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s amendment to S. 761, the Shaheen-Portman Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act.
This article first appeared on ArupConnect, the online magazine of Arup in the Americas. About the authors: Adam Friedberg is a senior consultant in Arup’s New York office. Kirstin Weeks is a senior specialist in our San Francisco office.