Sustainable design depends on a comprehensive understanding of a building’s siting and systems, so it seems reasonable to assume a more integrated design and construction process could play a role in project success. But with certification to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards becoming an increasingly common building [...]
Entries from August 20th, 2010
Forging an Alliance – Integrated Design & LEED
August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: Building technology
More Than Just a Meter
August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Feature writing
The term “smart grid” is getting a lot of use these days, with related stimulus funding reaching into the billions of dollars and the popular press promising Jetsons-like advances; it has been predicted to enable our control of home appliances from our office desktops and allow us to supply electricity back to the grid and [...]