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LoyaltyOne Claims Largest Solar Rooftop Project in Canada

October 8, 2009October 29, 2009 by Gina Roos

LoyaltyOne/AIR MILES is targeting LEED certification under the Canada Green Building Council’s rating system for its new 50,000-sq. ft. customer care center in Ontario. Scheduled to open in November 2009, the new building will feature Canada’s largest solar rooftop project with over 800 panels. The solar system will generate 147 ... Read more »

Sony Electronics HQ Boasts Solar, LEED Construction

October 6, 2009October 6, 2009 by Paul Nastu

The new Sony Electronics headquarters building in San Diego uses solar-equipped parking structures to defray some of the facility’s electric needs. Built to LEED standards – but not yet certified – the 455,000 square foot building took two years to construct, according to a press release. The building cost $150 ... Read more »

Westin, Marriott Target Energy Efficiency, Water Savings

October 6, 2009October 29, 2009 by Gina Roos

What’s on the mind of most hotels no matter their size? Energy efficiency and environmental improvements. Hotels, running the gamut from the family-owned Spice Island Beach Resort in Grenada to hotel chains such as Colorado’s Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa and the Marriott Courtyard Portland City Center, are all claiming ... Read more »

BCBS Sets New Standards for Green Office Buildings

October 6, 2009October 29, 2009 by Gina Roos

The new office tower headquarters for Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) in Rhode Island was designed to meet national goals for efficiency and sustainability, while encouraging good health and morale for its workforce, reports Providence Journal. Blue Cross officials told the Providence Journal that their building promotes a healthy economy ... Read more »

Green Grid Tools Support Data Center Efficiency

October 5, 2009 by Gina Roos

The Green Grid has launched several new tools and reports to help global businesses improve the energy efficiency of their data centers and operations. These include a new power usage effectiveness (PUE) reporting tool and regional tools for calculating free cooling. Green Grid, together with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ... Read more »

Tesco Adopts Carbon Accounting Software

September 30, 2009October 21, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Tesco, which has 4,000 supermarket locations in 14 nations, has adopted a new carbon accounting software to help it meet its goal of halving emissions from 2006 levels by 2020. Tesco also plans to cut in half the emissions related to distribution, on a case basis, by 2012. Tesco will ... Read more »

PricewaterhouseCoopers Cuts Carbon Emissions by 10%

September 25, 2009October 21, 2009 by Gina Roos

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) has reduced its carbon footprint 10 percent in fiscal year 2008, decreasing its carbon emissions by more than 30,000 metric tons. The company is on track to achieve its four-year carbon emissions reduction goal of 20 percent by 2012. PwC made the announcement at the Carbon Disclosure ... Read more »

New York Mandates Green Standards for State Buildings

September 10, 2009October 19, 2009 by Gina Roos

New York Governor David Paterson has signed an amended version of the green building construction bill passed by state lawmaker last year that requires that state-owned buildings be developed or renovated in accordance with sustainability practices, reports CoStar Realty Information. The State Green Building Construction Act goes into effect in ... Read more »

Green Buildings Combine Healthy Living with Energy Savings

September 10, 2009October 29, 2009 by Gina Roos

Whether it’s a commercial or residential green building project that is designed from the ground up to be eco-friendly or an energy-efficient retrofit, developers are realizing energy and cost savings, while creating healthy environments. Commercial projects are realizing significant savings. As an example, Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto, which consumed ... Read more »

LEED Takes Hit For Underdelivering on Federal Building

September 3, 2009October 19, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Critics are coming out of the woodwork after the General Services Administration found that the LEED-certified Federal Building in Youngstown, Ohio, was lacking on the energy efficiency front. In fact, the building was unable to attain the Energy Star label, reports the New York Times. The U.S. Green Building Council, ... Read more »

Denny’s Goes Green in Joliet

August 27, 2009October 29, 2009 by Gina Roos

The new Denny’s restaurant in Joliet, Illinois, is the restaurant chain’s first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified restaurant, reports the Chicago Tribune. One of the biggest savings achieved was in water use, which reduced the restaurant’s water and sewer connection fees by $25,000, making the cost almost ... Read more »

USGBC Launches Initiative to Track Buildings’ Performance

August 27, 2009November 12, 2009 by Gina Roos

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has stepped up its efforts for continuous improvement in building performance with the launch of the Building Performance Initiative. This program will develop a comprehensive data collection and analysis methodology — based on all buildings that have achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ... Read more »

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