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.
IBM Buys Tririga, Bolsters Building Management Software
IBM has announced that it will buy Tririga, a vendor of facility and real estate management software, for an undisclosed sum.
IBM expects the transaction ...
JLL Guide Catalogs Global Environmental Building Regulations
Jones Lang LaSalle has published a guide to energy, sustainability and climate regulations affecting building owners and managers around the world.
The latest edition ...
Canadian Tire Saves $6m from Transport, Building and Product Initiatives
Canadian Tire Corporation completed 389 environmental initiatives in fiscal year 2010. These changes are forecasted to annually avoid about $6 million in costs, ...
United Natural Foods Selects Hara for Energy Efficiency and GHG Reduction
United Natural Foods, the distributor of more than 60,000 organic, natural and fair trade products, has selected Hara’s Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) ...
Sustainable Facilities Tour of SAP Labs Palo Alto
Highlights of SAP Labs Palo Alto Facilities Chief Larry Morgan's campus tour on February 9, 2011. Includes a look at ...
Environmental Leader’s Insider Knowledge Report Released
Environmental Leader’s Insider Knowledge Report: Lessons Learned from Corporate Environmental, Sustainability and Energy Decision-Makers
Environmental Leader has released the inaugural edition of its Insider Knowledge ...
U.S. Energy Efficient HVAC Market to Top $8 Billion by 2015
The U.S. Energy Efficient residential heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) market is projected to grow from $5.38 billion in 2010 to $8.15 billion in ...
Kaiser Permanente Switches on Solar Power System
Kaiser Permanente has gone live with the first stage of its California-based solar power initiative at Santa Clara Medical Center. The solar panels will produce ...
Lundberg Family Farms Powers Green Warehouse with Sun
Lundberg Family Farms, a producer of organic rice and rice products, completed installation of 1,690 solar panels atop its 37,558 square-foot warehouse on its farm ...
Hitachi Has Big Plans For Solar-Powered Air Conditioning System
Hitachi Plant Technologies has developed a solar activated air conditioning system for local-air conditioning in buildings or district cooling facilities. This system is ...
EPA Provides New Guidance for CFL Cleanup
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today updated its guidance on how to properly clean up a broken compact fluorescent lamp (CFL). Included with the ...
30% More Light, 75% Less Energy for Senior Community Network
Brookdale Senior Living has completed its nationwide lighting retrofit throughout the company's 546 senior care communities. The initiative is estimated to save $5 ...
Gazeley Greens Storage & Distribution Buildings
Property developer and logistics provider Gazeley has shown that sustainability can be a major factor in winning new clients. Here's ...
Toray Plastics Adding $2-million Solar Field
Toray Plastics Inc. will begin construction in 2011 on a $2 million 446kW solar photovoltaic field on its 70-acre campus in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, ...
US Army Adopts ASHRAE Standard 189.1
U.S. Army officials issued their new sustainable design and development initiative that incorporates requirements of the green building Standard 189.1.
The policy applies to all construction ...
Sheraton Meadowlands Installing Solar Carport
In a move that will offset an estimated 75 million pounds of CO?, the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel & Conference Center in New Jersey is installing ...
Hospitals Plot Course with Sustainability Roadmap
Groups of health care leaders within the American Hospital Association (AHA) have launched the “Sustainability Roadmap for Hospitals,” a web-based resource for the hospital ...
BAE Plans $2 Million “No-Money-Down” Retrofit
Defense industry giant BAE Systems plans $2 million in energy efficiency investments at its Greenlawn, NY, facility. The project includes heating and cooling system upgrades, ...
ISO 14001 News From The Staples Center, UPM Raflatac
AEG Worldwide-owned sports arena the Staples Center in Los Angeles has earned ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard.
LA's Staples Center, opened in 1999, is ...
GM Meets, Beats Landfill-Free Facilities Target
General Motors says that 52 percent of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free, meaning all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or ...
