Sustainable Facilities
Sustainable facilities focuses on efforts to make facilities such as office buildings, warehouses, and hospitals more sustainable. More sustainable buildings reduce the environmental impacts of energy, water, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste. Articles include discussion of LEED certification, energy efficiency, recycling, the greening of buildings and reduction of carbon footprints.
Automation System for Smaller Buildings Wins Funding
SCL Elements, developer of the Can2Go automation software for smaller commercial buildings, has secured $2.15 Million in Series A financing. The Westly Group led ...
Frito-Lay Opens ‘Near Net Zero’ Facility
Snack food giant Frito-Lay has opened what the company calls a "near net zero" plant in Arizona.
The "near net zero" vision was to transform an existing ...
Verisae’s Apollo Tackles Buildings’ Software Integration Problem
Verisae has launched Apollo, building management software which the company says will collect data from any source, reducing maintenance and energy spend by seven ...
Symantec Nearly Doubles LEED Facilities
In FY11, Symantec nearly doubled its number of LEED-certified buildings from nine to 16, including an enterprise data center, according to the company's 2011 ...
Alaska Lab Buys Siemens, Aircuity Systems for Air Change Efficiency
The state of Alaska's Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory will combine Siemens' Apogee building automation and laboratory control system with the OptiNet system from airside ...
Solar Briefing: Walmart Plans Arrays for 75% of Calif. Stores
Walmart plans to complete rooftop solar arrays on more than three quarters of its California stores, with projects planned for up to 60 locations.
The planned ...
WEF Names 16 Emerging Economy Sustainability Champions
Natura, Suzlon and Woolworths are among 16 fast-growing companies from the emerging markets that also shine in terms of their sustainability initiatives, according to a World ...
Compliance & Standards Briefing: Green Smartphone, RoHS, NSF Suit, Low-Flow Toilet Bill
Samsung’s Evergreen, a smartphone for “environmentally conscious” consumers (pictured left), has earned platinum accreditation from UL Environment’s Sustainable Product Certification standard, the company announced. The smartphone, ...
Toyota Trials Li-Ion Batteries at Sainsbury’s Distribution Center
British grocery chain Sainsbury’s and Toyota Material Handling UK are working together to trial lithium ion battery technology.
The two companies will be testing applications of the ...
Energy Management Tech Briefing: Sprint, Proliphix, SmartLabs, Tendril, Elster, Lutron, Tantalus
Sprint has announced collaborations with Proliphix and SmartLabs aimed at making energy management tools easy for businesses to install.
The Proliphix IMT-550 ...
GE Leads Funding for Pre-Fab Commercial Eco Buildings
GE Energy Financial Services has led a $22 million investment round for Project Frog, a venture selling pre-fabricated, energy efficient commercial building kits.
The ...
CBRE Expands Sustainable Property Services
CB Richard Ellis led the property services industry by benchmarking and registering 242 million square feet of Energy Star buildings and engaging 146 million ...
Sustainability Software Briefing: C3, Cisco, Sensus, 1E
C3, a fledgling vendor of energy management software, says that its customers and partners now include Adobe, Constellation Energy, Dow Chemical, GE, HP and ...
Building Cap-and-Trade System ‘An Ingenious Approach’
The world’s first cap and trade system just for buildings could prove a model for other municipalities seeking to cut emissions, according to ...
Beyond Energy and Water – The Value of LEED
Some critics have charged that the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED program does not deliver on the energy and water savings claimed ...
Hyatt, Environ Conduct Second Energy Audit
Consulting firm Environ will conduct an energy efficiency audit for 14 Hyatt Hotel & Resorts, the second phase of the of the organization’s European hotel ...
Sustainability Software Briefing: Serious Energy, Viridity, Sprint, Enxsuite, Bonneville Power
Serious Energy has launched a new release of its SeriousEnergy Manager enterprise energy-efficiency management platform. SeriousEnergy Manager 3.1 (pictured) includes powerful building intelligence reporting capabilities, advanced ...
Bank of America Cuts Scope 1 & 2 GHGs by 8%
Bank of America reduced its net Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 7.5 percent from 2009 to 2010, according to ...
Schneider, Cisco Launch Joint Building-IT Energy Platform; Canon Saves 2.7m kWh
Schneider Electric and Cisco have unveiled a joint energy management solution that allows building managers to extend the reach of their existing ...
Compliance & Standards Briefing: Safety Kleen, Facility Management, Dyno Nobel
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will develop global facility management standards if a British Standards Institution's proposal (pdf) is adopted. ...
