Results for Nonresidential Building Operators

As we alerted you last year, the California Nonresidential Energy Use Disclosure Program (AB 1103) now applies to transactions (sales, financing, leases) of entire nonresidential buildings which are 10,000 square feet or more. Effective July 1, 2014, the threshold lowers to 5,000 square feet for this disclosure requirement. What is this Program? The Program requires building owners or operators to benchmark a nonresidential building’s energy use…

Building operators want people back, and they’re investing in IAQ upgrades to help ease occupant concerns.

by Roger P. Francoeur We have been hearing about Legionnaires’ disease in our area lately; there was an outbreak stemming from a hot tub at a beach resort in New Hampshire. While scanning through the news on the web about outbreaks, I saw other recent occurrences of this illness: at a VA hospital in the Boston area, at a business in Upper Manhattan, at a nursing home in Rhode Island, at an apartment complex and at a homeless shelter in Baltimore, at a…

Some cities—like Jakarta, Indonesia—are innovatively utilizing building benchmarking programs to promote energy savings. (Photo: Stefan Magdalinski /Flickr) The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently released a real-time building monitoring and scoring platform called LEED Dynamic Plaque , enabling building managers to benchmark, monitor, and improve their building’s performance on an ongoing basis. The program has been recognized as a “ game-changer ” in building certification schemes…

This article is about sustainable construction principles. For the building on the MIT campus, see Green Building (MIT) . For the building in Louisville, see The Green Building (Louisville, Kentucky) . US EPA Kansas City Science & Technology Center. This facility features the following green attributes: Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to both a structure and the application of processes…

Building owners and tenants strive to heighten building efficiency in modernizing cities, like Hong Kong. Photo by ¡kuba! / Flickr In the past few years, large commercial building owners and managers have expressed growing interest in using behavioral strategies to improve their buildings’ performance. That interest often takes the form of “occupant engagement,” whereby tenants are encouraged to adjust their habits to save energy or water…

Many people think that we get cold and flu viruses more often in the winter due to the cold temperatures outside; however, this can actually be attributed to the fact that we are inside more, thus being exposed to higher concentrations of pollutants. Poor indoor air quality can cause what has come to be known as sick building syndrome. What is sick building syndrome? The United…

Streamlined certification pathway for Multiple Existing Buildings will leverage efficiencies, drive performance improvements across portfolios CONTENT: Press Release NEW YORK, May 31, 2017 /3BL Media/ – The International WELL Building Institute™ (IWBI™) announced today that CBRE Group, Inc., Hines, and Lendlease are among leading global developers collaborating with IWBI to deliver WELL Portfolio™, a new cost-effective, existing building portfolio certification pathway within the WELL Building Standard™…

Almost half of today’s projects involve multiple legacy control protocols—such as BACnet, LonTalk, DALI, C-Bus, Modbus, KNX, etc — that don’t interoperate Echelon Corporation, the world’s leading control networking platform provider, released findings from a recent online survey that shed light on plans for building automation systems of the future. Survey results indicate that a majority of planners intend to integrate lighting, HVAC and security systems…

SAN JOSE, Calif., Mar 17, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Echelon Corporation ELON, +0.43% the world’s leading control networking platform provider, released findings from a recent online survey that shed light on plans for building automation systems of the future. Survey results indicate that a majority of planners intend to integrate lighting, HVAC and security systems into a common platform, and that almost half of building automation…