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San Francisco Launches Green Leasing Toolkit for Commercial Office Buildings by Stephen Del Percio, Green Real Estate Law November 3, 2011 Although designed primarily for San Francisco buildings, the free, on-line resource is being promoted as adaptable for any geographic location and is divided into three sections: a general green leasing guide, tips [...] Japan eyes solar panels on all new buildings by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com May 24, 2011 A landmark along the Tokyo-Osaka railway, Sanyo's Solar Ark is 344 yards wide with an annual output of 530,000 kWh. (Credit: Sanyo) Struggling with a continuing nuclear crisis and strains on its power supplies, Japan is [...] GM to use landfill gases as an energy-saver at Orion plant by Suzanne Ashe, cnet.com May 23, 2011 As production of the fuel-efficient 2012 Chevrolet Sonic and Buick Verano begins this fall at the General Motors Orion Assembly Plant, 40 percent of the energy required to build the vehicles will come from burning [...] News: Seattle Seahawks home to add Solyndra solar panels by Candace Lombardi, cnet.com May 18, 2011 Seattle Seahawks President Peter McLoughlin checks out a Solyndra solar array on the roof of Qwest Field. (Credit: Solyndra/Corky Trewin) The Seattle Seahawks stadium, Qwest Field Event Center, is adding solar panels to its roof. The solar [...] Solar concentrator graces university rooftop by Martin LaMonica, cnet.com April 13, 2011 Santa Clara U. has installed 60 rooftop solar collectors. (Credit: Chromasun) If concentrating sunlight works for utility-scale solar power plants, how about for heating and cooling a single building? Santa Clara University, which sits in the heart of Silicon Valley, said [...] Calif. solar plant, to be world’s largest, wins key approval by Reuters September 16, 2010 The Blythe plant will use parabolic trough technology, in which heat from mirrors generates steam that passes through turbines to create electricity. (Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management) The world’s largest solar power plant cleared an important hurdle [...] Report: What Is Builder’s Risk Insurance and Should I Purchase It For My Green Construction Project?What Is Builder’s Risk Insurance and Should I Purchase It For My Green Construction Project? by Stephen Del Percio, GreenRealEstateLaw.com May 13, 2010 One area of the property insurance market which has seen an increase in green building policy endorsements over the past year is the builder’s risk market. This article will take a [...] New Data on the Cost of LEED, Credit-by-Credit by Nadav Malin, BuildingGreen.com April 16, 2010 We’ve just released a neat new report on what it costs to achieve specific LEED credits. Based on the current LEED-NC 2009 rating system, “The Cost of LEED” draws on the experience of veteran cost estimators to provide prices [...] It’s Easy Being Green: The Pentagon Goes Green One Wedge at a Time by Center for American Progress March 11, 2010 This year, the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review-a strategy document that lays out the Pentagon’s vision for its missions and force structure every four years-identified climate change as both a potential source of conflict [...] Commercial Real Estate Recession To Keep Going Square Feet Commercial Real Estate Blog September 15, 2009 PriceWaterHouseCoopers released its Korpacz survey today. The investors surveyed for the report anticipate that the commercial real estate sector is expected to remain in recession until 2012. Part of the reason is an expectation that office space demand [...] |
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