February 7, 2012

Where are we going with this Green, Sustainable, Energy Efficient, Healthy Building Movement?

Where are we going with this Green, Sustainable, Energy Efficient, Healthy Building Movement? I kind of lost some interest in blogging and tweeting the past few weeks. Main reason is I periodically get overwhelmed by the amount of daily information I am inundated with regarding Green Building. I have to constantly ask myself, “What are [...]

What are the advantages for a commercial building owner to consider a green approach?

The following is a reply to a discussion started by Galouzi Makrem of the “Building Green-Sustainability Group” on Linked in. “Lets shelve the word Green. Let’s use a real world term–”Sustainable.” Any commercial building owner, meaning the building is theirs, lock, stock and barrel, has to look at their investment simply as initial cost, operational [...]

Is retrofitting sustainability measures into existing buildings a cost effective solution?

Lighthouse

Is retrofitting sustainability measures into existing buildings a cost effective solution? I have been following a discussion of this title initiated by Liz Stanley the Digital Community Manager at UBM Built Environment on Linked-In for the past couple of weeks. Finally after a comment today I just couldn’t keep my opinion to myself any longer. [...]

Focusing on Practical Green, Sustainable Energy Efficiency or E=MC2, but how do I make toast?

Tulips

Focusing on Practical Green, Sustainable Energy Efficiency or E=MC2, but how do I make toast? Recently the “Zits” Daily Comic Strip showed the main character, a teenager, sitting in a chair contemplating equations, calculus, formula’s and other examples of our fixation with complicated solutions to all problems. The last scene is the same teenager asking [...]

Too Much Heat and Moisture in an Energy Efficient New House.

In my last posting I was dealing with a real life building issue of condensation on the rim band of an insulated, pressurized crawl space. So who cares, it is in the crawl space. Well that is what causes mold, rot and unhealthy living conditions. Many people would say, “See we been telling you are [...]