08/25/2014 LEED Rankings I usually do an end of year and a mid-year check of the LEED numbers, but June got past me. In college, a studio class with Lebbeus Woods taught me that our markers of time are arbitrary at best. So in that spirit, here are the … [Read more...]
Greening The City: Houston 2012 Report on Sustainable Buildings
In response to repeated requests for USGBC to establish a benchmark of Houston’ s progress in the adoption of green buildings practices, primarily via the prevalence of LEED projects, Angela Bejarano and I co-authored Greening Our City: Houston 2012 report on … [Read more...]
Houston joins the U.S. Better Building Challenge
The City of Houston and the U.S. Department of Energy announced today that the city has joined the Better Building Challenge and has pledged a 20% reduction by 2020 in 30 million square feet of public and private buildings. The U.S. DOE press release can be … [Read more...]
Better Buildings Initiative: Obama commits to 20% energy use reduction in commercial buildings.
President Obama has just announced a collection of initiatives and actions that are designed to encourage a 20% reduction in energy use by commercial buildings by 2020. The initiative calls for aggressive reform of existing tax (transforming the current … [Read more...]
Houston LEED 2010 Statistics: More Certified than Registered
For the first time ever, the number of Houston LEED projects Certified exceeded the number of projects Registered for LEED. In 2010, the Houston region had 59 projects acheive LEED certification, a 55% increase over 2009 and a continuation of the exponential … [Read more...]