Tag: LEED for Existing Buildings
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If Betty White Were a Green Building…
Christopher Davis Certification Team Lead, Existing Buildings Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) Perhaps you’ve heard the idea that “the greenest building is the one already built.” Our friends in the historic preservation movement use this…
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The True Story of the EBies
Laurie Kerr Senior Policy Advisor NYC Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability Several years ago, a group of us Urban Greeners were chatting about how to scale up energy efficiency in existing buildings – as we so often do for fun…
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May I Borrow Your Jumper Cables?
Lauren Riggs, LEED AP Manager, LEED Performance U.S. Green Building Council “May I borrow some jumper cables?” The brick building asked the building next door. The brick building’s energy use was out of control; It needed to kick-start its effi…
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A Green Building Opportunity: Three Million Strong
Doug Gatlin Vice President, LEED U.S. Green Building Council It’s a great time to be an existing building. First: President Obama released last year’s Better Buildings Initiative, focusing financing opportunities on commercial retrofits. Then: …
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What LEED Means to Us
This entry is cross-posted from the Brewery Vivant blog. We recently received our LEED Silver (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification at Brewery Vivant and found out at the end of the process that we are the first commercial mi…