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Welcome to the quiz portion of Green Design: What's Love Got to Do with It?
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
1. Summarize how designers are better able to fulfill the full promise of sustainability by embracing sensory experience.
2. Broaden the sustainable design... Read more
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Hello friends,
We are looking for recommendations for solar photovoltaic consultants to support one of our projects. We have used SEI in the past, but would like to develop a deeper bench and approach it from another angle. We aren’t too concerned about the consultant’s location, but are looking for someone that is on top of the current... Read more
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For those who work for companies that track and offset their carbon each year, how do you do it? Looking for best practices and how you vetted where to send your money. Don't need insight on quantifying carbon footprint, just offsetting. Thanks!
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We talked about products in Eastern region and Western region groups.
Guiding questions:
Better Product Choices On Every Project: How To Get There?
How do firms organize and communicate information on materials? Is it office wide or on select projects?
What do designers and project managers need to know? How... Read more
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Hi folks,
As you may know, this network is part of a family of Sustainability Leader Peer Networks that BuildingGreen hosts. They each have their own private forum, and there is also a shared cross-network forum called "Green Gurus."
Those of you have already paid in to be part of this network moving forward have automatically... Read more
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I am brushing up on current tools for local government greenhouse gas inventories and was wondering if any of you have used the EPA's Local Government Greenhouse Gas Inventory tool? Download the Local Greenhouse Gas Inventory Tool | US EPA
Some of my immediate questions include:
Is the EPA tool straightforward to use?
Are... Read more
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SDL
Glad to see some of you at the COTE event at our studio last week.
Has anybody heard of this company and technology? https://www.enverid.com
Thanks in advance, Zach
Zach Craun, WELL AP, LEED GA
Associate
COOKFOX ARCHITECTS, DPC
250 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10107
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Per our discussion on today's SMEP call, it would be interesting to have a more in-depth discussion on Indoor Air Quality. Questions I have personally...
What experiences are people seeing on the design side - IAQP vs VRP? How can we advocate more for IAQ performance testing in existing buildings? (e.g. LEED and WELL) What types of tests... Read moreForum topic
Hi Green Friends - I hesitated to post on April Fools, but wanted to get the link out for folks to share with their netowrks I'll be teaching a workshop at the Pacific Energy Center on May 11 on Electrification Retrofits of Exisitng Non-Residential Buildings. I'll be bulidng on the great work our sub-committee led by Allison has been... Read more
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Morning SDL,
Working on a midwest lab and trying to make the case for electrification in a slower greening grid with a reluctant MEP team. Here are a few sources I have checked for case studies:
NBI Getting to Zero Database, doesn't have a Lab Category but does have cold weather examples Labs 21, has low EUI and good data but no... Read moreForum topic
Green Gurus,
We'd love your feedback.
The MEP group is endeavoring to make progress on integrative design. It has been long accepted that integrative design is necessary to make real progress, but a lack of stellar results demonstrates that it is easier said than done.
What is your experience with successes and failures... Read more