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Greenbuild bound colleagues-
I unfortunately cannot join for the summit Tuesday but should be flying in early enough to potentially join the group for dinner. Are there any plans brewing that I might join?!
Let me know? Thanks.
Katie Rothenberg
Vice President, Sustainability & Innovatio
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Green Gurus –
Clark Brockman brought to our attention an important and impactful opportunity to advance building decarbonization through the US Department of Energy’s proposed rulemaking around water heater efficiency, advancing adoption of heat pumps, while still providing exceptions (and efficiency targets) for electric or natural gas... Read more
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BuildingGreen Approved, like its predecessor, GreenSpec, is an independent product evaluation service for BuildingGreen members. We offer an unbiased look at products: BuildingGreen does not accept any manufacturer fees for our evaluations. Here’s a quick tour of the platform and how to use it.
Who can access BuildingGreen Approved... Read moreQuiz
Welcome to the quiz portion of Whole-Building Life Cycle Analysis: Promises and Pitfalls.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
1. Define whole-building life-cycle assessment.
2. Explain what whole-building life-cycle assessment can and can't do so you can work within... Read more
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We are working on a multi-family project in Hartford that is townhouse style so each unit has an exterior door. The client has requested electronic key fob hardware. Has anyone had experience with retrofitting a passive house door with electronic hardware or have they used a door that is already fitted with electronic hardware?
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We're thrilled to announce that, for the first time, the 2025 Summits for each Peer Network will be hosted within one week and in a single location. You’ll get the deep peer-to-peer time you love from a Summit AND some glorious cross-disciplinary time to experience the power of the Green Commons. It’s all happening at the Kimpton Cottonwood, a... Read more
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We broke up into 5 discussion groups by market sector:
Commercial office Education Healthcare & Labs Multifamily Civic/institutional/sportsHere are the proposed "guiding questions":
How do other firms define 'design thinking'? Do they have a standard process used across projects and, if so, how they have made that take hold... Read moreForum topic
Hi SD Leaders!
I'm Nadav, president at BuildingGreen and facilitator of the Sustainability peer networks. I'm really excited to finally have this network for champions from smaller firms up and running!
I do a lot of workshop facilitation, design process support, and consulting and training related to sustainable products. I... Read more
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Big news! It’s being announced today that the amazing Lindsay Baker will be ILFI’s new CEO—she’s starting the job next week.
Lindsay is talking about bringing a new focus on advocacy work to ILFI—she had been working on setting up a new organization for that purpose when ILFI recruited her. And she’ll have her hands full figuring out... Read more
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Hi SMEP Leaders,
Our next monthly call is Tuesday, June 13 at 2:00 pm Eastern.
We've had a great series of conversations over the past year kicked off by short presentations from you all: interesting projects, confounding questions, emerging technologies and design strategies. It would be great to line up some more of those for... Read more
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I am looking for anyone that specializes in this area, see the principles below.
http://universaldesign.ie/What-is-Universal-Design/
We have looked at HOK's Neurodiveristy document which is great. Are there other resources like this, or other designers/consultants you have worked with?
TIA
Kristen
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Join us for the Peer Networks-exclusive version of this Greenbuild presentation!
Register HERE.
A New Standard in Facade Design
November 30th, 2020
1pm - 2pm ET (10am - 11am PT)
Description and Presenters: Current façade design focuses more on operating carbon (or energy), even when embodied carbon is accounted... Read more
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Hi folks,
You may have seen this posted to the Green Gurus forum. Paula got some good responses from architects and engineers, but not so much from GCs so she asked me to follow up and post it here. Please reach out to her if you're willing to be included in these articles/reports. Thanks!
Hi! I’m working on two reports about... Read more
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We have a client for whom we are designing a very high performance manufacturing facility, and they want to communicate their building's performance both dynamically and in real-time within their lobby for guests and staff.
We would like to mine the wisdom of this group to see what recommendations we can muster regarding high quality... Read more