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White Paper
By Dedee DeLongpre-Johnston | University of Florida
We've all read the news of companies going green and making green. The headlines make a compelling case for a CEO to take the plunge. Institutions of higher education are making similar commitments ...
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White Paper
By Christine McEntee | American Institute of Architects
Sustainable principles for the design, construction, and renovation of homes and buildings are imperatives that will yield economic, health, and most importantly, environmental benefits. In terms of l...
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White Paper
By Georges Dyer, Greenland Enterprises
Invisible and Avoidable
If you’re reading this in an office, look at the ceiling. Chances are you’ll see a patchwork of sprinkler heads hanging over the room. Unless you work in the fire ...
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White Paper
By Doug Gatlin | U.S. Green Building Council
Sustainability is fast becoming accepted as a mainstream ideal in our society. 2007 was marked by a series of bellwether events: corporate America challenging our nation's political leadership to ta...
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White Paper
By Paul Todd Merrill | Clayco
The construction industry has a massive impact on the global environment. Luckily, it is now re-evaluating all components of the building process, including extraction of raw materials, design pract...
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White Paper
By Jessica Bier, David Linich, Christopher Park / Deloitte Consulting LLP
One challenge in creating a green workplace is that traditional methods of communicating do not apply. Research has shown that centralized greeningplans distributed from the top down have little eff...
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White Paper
By Rese Fox / Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Many companies are taking the plunge and deciding to build green LEED-certified buildings (LEED is the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green buil...
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White Paper
By Doug Gatlin / U.S. Green Building Council
Evidence that green buildings do not have to cost a penny more than their conventional counterparts continue to pile up, as do the studies that validate significant ongoing operational cost savings ...
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White Paper
By Paul von Paumgartten / Alliance for Sustainable Built Environments
The new construction of high-performance green buildings gets the lion’s share of attention in the United States when building experts discuss building trends, solutions for climate change and...
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Case Study
By American Institute of Architects
First occupied in 1973, the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) headquarters in Washington was designed by The Architect’s Collaborative, a firm founded by architect Walter Gropius.A...
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White Paper
By Tim Cole / Forbo Flooring Systems
If you were asked which you prefer, clean air or clean water, which would you choose? Most would say: "I want both" or, "Why do I have to choose?" The answer is that you should not have to cho...
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White Paper
By Kofi Gamor | BearingPoint
International protocols have taken great strides to summon the world to arms regarding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the adverse effects of our rapidly increasing global carbon footprint. In 19...
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White Paper
By Dr. Joseph Romm | Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
The Time is Now for Green Buildings
Corporate environmental sustainability initiatives are more valuable and necessary today than ever before, thanks to five major reasons: compelling evidence of hu...
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White Paper
Lance Davis is a sustainable design expert and a part of the Sustainable Design Program in the Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings within the Government Services Administration’s ...
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White Paper
By Barbara A. Nadel, Barbara Nadel Architect
United States federal agencies are implementing innovative solutions to security and sustainability design challenges
From Maine to Seattle, from London to Tokyo, civic architecture reflects American...
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White Paper
By Marc M. Frediani, Deloitte Tax LLP and Megan E. Feinberg, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, LLP
Added to the Internal Revenue Code as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58), Section 179D(2) provides owners of energy efficient buildings federal income tax deductions of up...
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White Paper
By Timothy Henderson and Alexander Usdan, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services
High-performance green buildings promote maximum resource and energy-efficiency, healthy indoor environments and the use of natural, renewable resources in their design, construction and operation. Th...
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Case Study
By ConEdison Solutions
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
Environmental Benefits
1,996 tons of harmful greenhouse gas emission reduced annually Equivalent to:
Preserving 12.6 acres of forest from deforestation* or
Conserving 4,...
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White Paper
By R. Michael Richmond, Green Business League Inc.
The dilution of certification requirementsWhile the leading edge of the business community is ready to comply with LEED or ISO requirements, the rest of the business world is languishing behind, still...
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White Paper
By Kofi Gamor, Deloitte Consulting
While the current state of sustainability on the world stage and within the U.S. is quite tenuous, reinforced by a year marred by a series of distracting events, progress is being made. Notwithstandin...
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White Paper
By Joseph Pallant, CPS Carbon Project Solutions Inc.
By Joseph PallantHow does one mark an accomplishment: a ribbon, a dollar bill, a smile? Sometimes, an accomplishment should be savored solely in and of itself. Other times, achievement calls for a mar...
