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Research Sessions at Greenbuild 2015

By Sean McMahon on 16 Nov 2015 • 1 minute read

Greenbuild 2015 kicks off this week in Washington, DC, and for the 5th consecutive year the conference education program will feature a small number of special sessions dedicated to advanced research in green building. Research sessions dig into complex green building c …

Building Classification of LEED Certified U.S. Office Buildings

By Mohammad Heidarinejad on 20 Nov 2014 • 3 minute read

Recently, researchers have used energy simulation results from 134 LEED NC certified U.S. office buildings to classify the selected buildings into three clusters (classes) of low, medium, and high energy use intensity. The selected buildings established a database compr …

Managing Information Overload to Reduce Stress and Make Better Decisions in Green Building

By Christopher Wedding, PhD on 18 Nov 2013 • 3 minute read

“In the last 30 years, mankind has produced more information than in the previous 5,000." This is a statistic from a 1997 Reuters Magazine article entitled, Information Overload Causes Stress. Here we are 16 years later, and it seems that this trend of information …