Construction & Refitting
Empire State Building Lights to Cut Energy 75%; Lightfair Kicks Off
The Empire State Building has unveiled plans to install an external lighting system that will use 75 percent less energy than its predecessor, as lighting ...
DOE Guide to Help Hospitals Achieve 50% Energy Savings
LED surgery lights, HVAC systems and improved facility design, among other technologies, can cut large hospitals’ energy costs in half, according to a Department ...
Lime Energy, Central Hudson Contract to Provide 5,000 Commercial Lighting Retrofits
Central Hudson Gas & Electric is implementing a commercial lighting program, under a four-year contract with Lime Energy ...
Pike Research: Building Info Modeling Market Will Reach $1.8bn This Year
The market for building information modeling software and services is still fledgling, but it's evolving rapidly as the architecture, engineering and construction industry realizes ...
Abbott Sustainability Report: Three 2015 Targets Met Four Years Early
Global health care company Abbott Laboratories reached its 2015 goals for carbon dioxide emissions, water intake and waste output in 2011, while increasing year-on-year sales ...
Hershey Sustainability Report: Sets Goals to Cut Water 10%, GHGs 13%
Hershey used its second corporate sustainability report yesterday to publish a set of new sustainability goals including reducing its waste by a quarter, achieving a ...
Cox Saves 17,400 Tons of Carbon over Five Years
Cox Enterprises has saved 17,400 tons of carbon through alternative energy projects since 2007 and conserves 20 million gallons of water annually, according ...
Places to Look for Energy Losses in Commercial Buildings
Data from millions of businesses, institutions and manufacturers show that sustainability issues fall into four main categories: rising energy costs, growing ...
Gamma Light Tech Cuts Ships’ Fuel, Emissions ‘by 75%’
Engineers with Gamma Light & Heavy Industries have developed a propulsion system that can maneuver a ...
Memorial Sloan-Kettering, United Stationers LED Retrofits Cut Costs by 57%, 91%
New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Sacramento, Calif.'s United Stationers have recently completed lighting retrofits.
At Sloan-Kettering, LED lighting manufacturer Seesmart Technologies replaced about 700 ...
London Olympics Slash CO2 Footprint by 21%
The organizers of the 2012 London Olympic Games have cut the event's projected carbon footprint by over a fifth, through the use of rented seats, tents and crowd barriers, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek ...
DC-Powered LED Lighting Could Lower Electricity Bills, Study Says
A direct current electrical power system may be the most economic way to power lights in commercial buildings, according to a paper by Carnegie ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: LEED, Energy Star, SFI, eRecyclingCorps, IEEE
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes nine items.
Brookfield Canada Office Properties said that its Exchange ...
UTC Fuel Cell Powers News Corp’s NY Headquarters
A fuel cell system at the News Corporation headquarters in New York City will soon provide hot water and a significant portion of ...
Minnesota’s LEED Buildings Join the Energy Benchmarking Trend
A initiative launched by the Minnesota Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council will collect, report and assess the energy performance of more than ...
Arby’s Taps Ecova for Energy Plan
Arby's Restaurant Group is to work with energy and sustainability management company Ecova to create a strategic energy plan targeting short- and long-term energy savings.
Ecova ...
Missouri Geothermal Project ‘Will Halve Campus Energy Use’
Missouri University of Science and Technology is to build a geothermal heat project that it hopes will halve the campus's energy use.
By the time the ...
Lessons Learned: Sustainable Aquatics Center at London 2012
Video highlighting what was learned in building the Sustainable Aquatics Center ...
Ameresco Snags $4.5M Medical Center ESPC
The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada has awarded Ameresco an energy savings performance contract to install more than $4.5 million of improvements at ...
Lennox Boosts Efficiency of Cooling Units
Lennox has added a new all-aluminum condenser coil to its energy efficient Energence rooftop cooling units, slashing the amount of refrigerant required by nearly half.
The ...
