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New Free Tool Helps Apply LEED v4 to Optimize Climate Resilience

By Evan Bowechop on 16 Nov 2015 • 1 minute read

In a world with a changing climate, building designers, developers, investors, and entire communities are increasingly exposed to risks that cannot be navigated by referencing historic conditions alone. This is the central challenge that is explored in a 2011 research p …

Introducing GBIG Highlight Collections

By Mira Panek on 19 Nov 2013 • 2 minute read

This year, exhibitors at the Greenbuild Expo have a new way to promote their products and services beyond the booth. We’ve introduced LEED Highlight Collections in GBIG, a self-service feature that allows companies to associate their brand with high-performing buildin …

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 …

LEED-ing on Climate Resilience

By JP Jaudel on 17 Oct 2013 • 2 minute read

Changing climate puts the health, safety, and performance of buildings at risk. Rising temperatures undermine the assumptions used to design the envelopes and HVAC systems in homes and commercial buildings. Rising sea levels increase risks of flooding for coastal as …