Emergency drills may be a nuisance to your employees, but they are paramount to your emergency preparedness. Find out what you need to do to avoid a disaster.
Smart Sustainability Expo
Want to make smart (i.e., profitable) choices about sustainability? The Smart Sustainability Expo will provide tools that you can apply to building sites, energy, materials, maintenance, and indoor environmental quality. These smart tools will help you to make profitable decisions about green certification and to weigh upfront costs vs. lifecycle costs for sustainability projects.
Sessions to include:
How Green Can Green Be? And How Do You Know?
The Transformation of Outdoor Lighting
Design for Maintenance: Using BIM as a FM Tool
Going Green by Saving Blue
Green Sweep: LEED-Certified Cleaning Practices
Give Your Disposal Plan a Green Boost
Find out what you need to know about treating waste, compost, and devices. A cost-effective and green-friendly solution may be more viable than you think.
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The Obama Administration has proposed the EPA budget for the FY 2012 - $8.973 billion. This budget proposal is approximately a 13% decrease from the 2010 budget of $10.3 billion. Click here for complete article…
Cement Manufacturer Penalized $1.4 Million The EPA and the U.S. Justice Department have announced that Cemex, Inc. has agreed to pay a $1.4 million penalty for Clean Air Act violations at its cement plant in Fairborn, OH.Click here for complete article…
The DOE has joined with local and state leaders in Heathsville, VA, to install a wind turbine as part of the Wind for Schools project.
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Now playing on BUILDINGSVIP: Benchmarking Your Building's Energy Use: A Step-by-Step Approach to Portfolio Manager
Research shows that an overwhelming majority of commercial building owners say they are planning to reduce their energy consumption, yet half say they have not benchmarked energy consumption across their portfolio. Step by step, learn how to use EPA's Portfolio Manager and other audit tools to analyze your buildings, interpret the data, and act on the results.
Facility managers in charge of safety and security are beginning to look for better ways to build more comprehensive and customized emergency response plans.Click here for complete article …
Check out these points with your lawyer before you start your next certified building project.
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LEED Success Strategies Session 1: LEED and the Urban Heat Island Effect
Interested in furthering your understanding of the urban heat island effect – and ways to reduce it? This webinar is the first in our "Strategies for Success in LEED" series, designed to teach individuals about strategies useful in meeting LEED requirements in various credit categories.
Center beam power control ideal for accent lighting.
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Environmentally friendly architectural glass.
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Sustainable hydro generator solution.
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