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ENERGY STAR Score for Museums: You can manage what you measure

By Joyce Lee on 06 Oct 2017 • 5 minute read

Museum institutions, whether they be major tourist attractions or small house collections, are part of our knowledge sphere from childhood through adulthood. Museums are viable, and often valuable, community enterprises whose boards are frequently headed by key philanth …

3 IoT Smart Building Trends to Look Out For

By Senseware on 23 May 2017 • 4 minute read

Smart building technology has made numerous changes to facility and building management, and the Internet of Things helps this sector go one step further. Commercial buildings are the top market for IoT devices, at least until consumer devices reach the one billion mark …

Moving Faster Toward Zero Net Energy

By Jeremy Sigmon on 22 Feb 2017 • 3 minute read

Article via USGBC.org. See original here. In 2017, USGBC is setting our expectations to zero—zero net energy. According to a report released last quarter by the New Buildings Institute (NBI), there are currently 332 buildings that have been either verified as or …

5 Misconceptions About a Passive House

By Matt Lee on 03 Feb 2017 • 4 minute read

As energy costs rise, more people begin to look for ways to increase their home’s sustainability as a way to combat energy use. And one thing that often comes up as a model for just how effective creating a sustainable home can be is the passive house. By definition, …

GRESB Updates Green Bond Guidelines for the Real Estate Sector

By Dan Winters on 19 Oct 2016 • 3 minute read

At the close of the third quarter of 2016, the green bond market already outpaced the record-setting 2015 issuance and is projected to close the year with $70-80 billion in originations. Green property bonds have emerged as a key sector with year-to-date green property …

Smart Building Tech: Not Just about People

By Senseware on 20 Sep 2016 • 3 minute read

David Karpook, vice chairman of the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE), recently published an article in Facility Executive, “Smart Buildings: It’s Still About The People Inside.” He writes, “No matter what the benefits and challenges are, the fut …

Climate Change Readiness in Canadian Real Estate: A Snapshot

By Mark Bessoudo on 15 Sep 2016 • 5 minute read

At the 2015 Paris climate conference (COP 21), the Canadian government worked with international partners to negotiate an effective and ambitious global agreement on climate change to hold the increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-indust …

What Obama, the Real Estate Sector, and 130 Investors Have in Common

By Nils Kok on 07 Sep 2016 • 7 minute read

While a typical summer is characterized by a lack of real news, leading the press to cover anything that’s even remotely newsworthy—or not – (we have a word for it in Dutch, “cucumber time”), the past two months have yielded enough stories to keep the average …

LEED Dynamic Plaque: Providing a New Direction for Green Building Certification and Benchmarking at Scale

By Mark Bessoudo on 01 Jul 2016 • 6 minute read

Article originally published on GRESB.com The USGBC’s LEED rating system is the most successful green building certification system in the world. Its success has been largely due to its ability to target the top 25% market-leading buildings. While it has positioned …

Searching for Solar in Shanghai

By Pierre Moses on 11 May 2016 • 3 minute read

You know you’re a solar nerd when you always choose a window seat just to give yourself a few moments to survey the surrounding landscape for solar installations during takeoff and landing. Yep, that’s me. As I traveled around China for almost three weeks, I was sur …

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