BREEAM Green Building Rating System Arrives in US
BREEAM, the leading UK green-building rating system, has crossed the pond and is looking to take on its US counterpart LEED.
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Toronto Smart Building Deploys LEED Dynamic Plaque
Honeywell is expanding its relationship with Menkes Developments, a Toronto-based real estate firm, to help trim energy and operational costs at the firm’s 30-story Telus Tower – a smart building, featuring connected systems designed and delivered by Honeywell. As part of the project, Honeywell will deploy its Attune Services, which ... Read more »
Recommendation: Account for Energy Within Cost of Goods Sold
An article in AutomatedBuildings.com recommends several ways energy managers can improve their performance. The first recommendation is that energy managers should consider energy not as a fixed cost but rather a variable cost, which is included within Cost of Goods Sold (CGS). This strategy makes energy consumption more visible. The ... Read more »
USGBC Adds Member Organizations
The US Green Building Council has added six member organizations to its LEED International Roundtable, a team of practitioners, green building experts and organizations from around the world working toward increasing the global application and adoption of LEED. The new members include The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India, ... Read more »
Honeywell, USGBC Tool Monitors Building Sustainability
Honeywell and the US Green Building Council are working together to advance facility sustainability by integrating USGBC’s LEED Dynamic Plaque, a near-real-time monitoring tool with integrated building automation technology from Honeywell to measure and provide performance feedback to help optimize operations. The LEED Dynamic Plaque assesses facility performance in the ... Read more »
USGBC Wants to ‘Bring LEED to Life’
Scot Horst, senior vice president of LEED at the US Green Building Council, said LEED Dynamic Plaque, is currently installed at seven buildings worldwide. “Our goal is to bring the LEED program to life,” Horst told attendees at the Rocky Mountain Green conference in Denver last week. Horst, the chief ... Read more »
USGBC Creates a Building Monitoring Tool
The LEED Dynamic Plaque will be revealed at the Rocky Mountain Green conference in Colorado this week. The LEED Dynamic Plaque measuring device will give users a real-time display of how a building is performing in the areas of energy, water, waste, transportation and human experience. The aim is to ... Read more »