The City of San Francisco has adopted a Green Building Ordinance, requiring all new city construction projects, renovations, and additions to achieve a LEED® Silver or higher rating. “This ordinance will translate into millions in savings on future operational costs,” said Jared Blumenfeld, director of the San Francisco Department of the... Read more

® program mushroomed from one official rating system to three, and the Canada Green Building Council launched its own version as well. If the market response to LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) and LEED for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI) is anything like what we’ve seen with the... Read more

The U.S. Green Building Council presented its 2004 Leadership Awards during an evening gathering at the Greenbuild conference in Portland, Oregon on November 11, 2004. The Council instituted this awards program in 2002 in order to recognize companies, organizations, and individuals “whose actions have had a significant impact on the development... Read more

Rick Fedrizzi, president and CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council, may not have thought he was saying anything controversial when he used a standard line to promote the LEED® Rating System: “If it’s not LEED, it’s not green.” But Fedrizzi’s comments raised the hackles of a number of attendees at the opening plenary session at the Greenbuild... Read more

Eighty teams were selected from the submissions to present poster sessions during Greenbuild 2004. These half-hour sessions took place during the lunch breaks on November 10 and 11. Three posters were recognized with Awards of Merit, two tied for Best of Show, and one poster was selected for the People’s Choice award.

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The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) at the University of California, Berkeley has an online occupant survey tool with automated reporting and analysis options (see

EBN Vol. 12, No. 9). In order to increase the number of LEED-certified buildings in its database, CBE is currently waiving the standard $1,000 per building fee for... Read more

At press time (late November 2004) the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) was preparing to launch its own version of LEED® for New Construction and Major Renovations (LEED-NC). Under the licensing agreement with the U.S. Green Building Council, buildings that achieve LEED certification by CaGBC will be recognized as LEED buildings by the... Read more

The Healthy Building Network (HBN) presented its 2004 Healthy Building Leadership Award to the nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry Habitat for Humanity. HBN and Greenpeace met with Neville Eastwood, director of construction and environmental research for Habitat for Humanity International in 2000 to discuss the possibility of... Read more

For the first time in U.S. history, a state renewable energy standard initiative was put before voters in a referendum, as opposed to being passed through state legislature. In the November 2004 elections, Colorado voters supported the renewable portfolio standard, Amendment 37, by a narrow margin, requiring Colorado’s largest utility companies... Read more

® Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee (TSAC) HCFC Task Group. This report,

The Treatment by LEED of the Environmental Impact of HVAC Refrigerants, was written to inform future revisions to... Read more

The U.S. Green Building Council recognized the contributions of Christine Ervin, USGBC president and CEO between 1999 and 2004, in the opening session of USGBC Day prior to the 2004 Greenbuild conference in Ervin’s hometown of Portland, Oregon. “Christine was a major force in transforming the building industry,” noted Rick Fedrizzi, current... Read more

To the best of our knowledge, Humabuilt no longer exists, and the products it previously produced are unavailable.

To the best of our knowledge, Humabuilt no longer offers FSC-certified veneers.

® for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) pilot program (see p. 3). As in recent years, the... Read more