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Standards & Compliance Briefing: Carbon Capture, UL Zero Waste, GSA Review

DNV KEMA has launched a risk management guide for the carbon capture and storage industry, CO2Riskman, which aims to increase public confidence in the technology through knowledge-based, consistent hazard management. The new guidance, developed over 15 months through a joint industry project with support from 16 industry and regulator organizations, ... Read more »

Federal Green Car Purchases ‘Down a Third’

Purchases of hybrid and electric vehicles by President Barack Obama’s administration fell by a third last year, according to Bloomberg. The administration has a goal of only buying alternative fuel vehicles for its fleet by 2015, but 2012, in which it purchased 1,801 alternative fuel vehicles, was the third year ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Fruit South Africa, Restricted Substances, Council for Responsible Sport

Fruit South Africa has finalized a standard and audit process, the Ethical Trade Program, for the South African fruit industry. Fruit SA worked with the Global Social Compliance Program, which aims to harmonize ethical requirements and avoid duplication of audits while ensuring global standards. The growers’ association said it used ... Read more »

GSA Evaluates Sage, Cypress, Daintree Green Tech

The US General Services Administration has selected products from Sage Electrochromics, Cypress Envirosystems and Daintree Networks for its Green Proving Ground program that evaluates sustainable building technologies. Green Proving Ground uses GSA-managed properties to evaluate technologies that reduce energy in federal buildings and have significant savings potential if widely implemented. ... Read more »

LEED Certifications for Federal Buildings Rise More Than 50%

The number of federal LEED-certified projects has skyrocketed about 51 percent this year, from 544 completed in 2011 to 821 in just the first eight months of 2012, the Federal Times reports. US Green Building Council director for technical policy Lane Burt says the growth in LEED-certified federal buildings mirrors ... Read more »

USGBC Opens LEED Draft Proposal to Public Comment

The US Green Building Council has opened the fifth public comment period to allow the building industry to view the most recent rating system in its proposed update to the LEED green building program. Comments on the proposed LEED v4 construction standards can be made on the USGBC website until ... Read more »

VA Installs Energy Management System, Expects $3.5m Over 5 Years

The Department of Veterans Affairs has installed an environmental management system (EMS) at its central office that it expects will save taxpayers $3.5 million over the next five years. The EMS installation at the 94-year-old office is part of a larger initiative to improve energy management across the Washington, DC ... Read more »

USGBC, Kohler, KB Homes Urge GSA to Stick with LEED Rating System

The US Green Building Council, along with 1,200 businesses and organizations that include KB Home, Kohler, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Sherwin Williams and the cities of Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco, has sent a letter urging the General Services Administration to continue to use the LEED sustainable building rating system. The ... Read more »

Coalition Forms to Challenge LEED Rating System

More than 27 business associations and trade groups have formed the American High-Performance Buildings Coalition, in a bid to support the development of a sustainable buildings standard that would challenge the US Green Building Council’s LEED rating system. The formation of the coalition, which includes the US Chamber of Commerce, ... Read more »

$39m, 39-Building GSA Project Will Enable Remote Energy Monitoring Across Four States

Siemens Government Technologies is on schedule to complete, by October, a $39 million energy-efficiency project that will allow the federal General Services Administration to monitor and control dozens of buildings, in four states, from one location. The contract covers 39 General Services Administration buildings across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and New ... Read more »

Contract Wins: GSA, NASA, Clean Energy Fuels, Telkonet’s EcoSmart

The US General Services Administration has procured about 300 million kWh of electricity – expected to save GSA more than $10.8 million at several facilities in New York as well as through other federal accounts, including the American Red Cross, Bureau of Prisons, United Nations, US Coast Guard and US ... Read more »


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