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Helen J. Kessler

Helen J. Kessler, FAIA, LEED Fellow is President of HJKessler Associates, a green building consulting firm in Chicago. She has been the LEED team administrator and sustainability advisor on over 60 LEED projects. Prior to working on LEED projects, she managed energy efficiency projects and helped write ASHRAE Guideline 0 – The Commissioning Process.

Shifting Mindsets and Awakening Possibility

14 Jan 2014 • 9 minute read

Am I doing enough? Are we doing enough? These are questions I ask myself as the Arctic’s ice and Greenland’s glaciers melt at an accelerating pace and as our planet’s life support systems continue to be subjected to relentless assault from extraction, overuse and …

If You Don’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It

21 Oct 2013 • 8 minute read

“If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” How often is this ignored in the operations and management of buildings? An energy services company representative recently mentioned during a presentation, “Every mechanical room I enter has equipment that …