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Compliance & Standards Briefing: Boosting Business, Oregon’s New Energy Code, LCRA

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and 25 partners from the standardization community have launched Standards Boost Business, an awareness campaign that calls on corporate America to invest in the standardization system and gain its rewards, ANSI said. The organization noted that C-level leaders who actively participate in standards development ... Read more »

DOE, NREL Show How to Cut Energy Use 50% in Commercial Buildings, Hospitals

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have released two technical reports that provide recommendations on how to achieve 50 percent energy savings in new and existing large office buildings and large hospitals. The studies were conducted by NREL’s Commercial Buildings Group, under the ... Read more »

SAP HQ, Larimer Office Tower Achieve LEED Platinum Certification

SAP has achieved the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification for its North American headquarters, touted as Pennsylvania’s largest LEED Platinum building, while Westfield’s Larimer Office Tower in Denver is one of the first high-rise buildings in the U.S. to receive LEED Platinum ... Read more »

Google Leads Charge against Data Center Standard

Google, Microsoft, Nokia, and Amazon, among others, are charging that new efficiency requirements proposed by a standards group are “too prescriptive” and prohibits innovation in the development of future cooling methods, reports PC World. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recently proposed the amendments (PDF) to its ... Read more »

DOE Shows Commercial Builders How to Achieve 50% Energy Savings

Building owners in four key commercial building sectors will now be able to achieve a 50-percent energy savings with the help of new technical documents that show how to achieve higher levels of performance. New technical support documents from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the DOE national laboratories ... Read more »

Intelligent Lighting Controls Deliver ROI in 3 Years

More building owners and managers are considering intelligent lighting systems to cut energy use because lighting, on average, accounts for approximately one-quarter of a building’s overall electricity use, rivaled only by HVAC and office equipment, according to Gary Meshberg, LEED, AP, and director of sales for Encelium Technologies. State-of-the-art lighting ... Read more »

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