• New environmental benchmarking tool will help businesses gauge performance and set improvement targets

  

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  9 hours ago — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees

  The Better Buildings Partnership and Jones Lang LaSalle have teamed up to provide owners and occupiers of commercial properties with a benchmarking tool for comparing …

• Embedding sustainability in the education sector

  

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  13 June — written by Lucy Kimberley, North Warwickshire & Hinckley College

  Lucy Kimberley tells us about her biggest sustainable business challenges including an ageing building stock and gaining access to funding. As the sustainability officer at …

• Small commercial buildings could save $30bn a year through energy efficiency, says report

  

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  13 June — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees

  Investing in energy conservation in small commercial buildings could generate $30bn a year in cost savings, according to a new study. The sector for small buildings and …

• How can you achieve further energy savings even when your BMS, boiler and other heating controls have been optimized?

  

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  13 June — added by Geoff Newman, Sabien Technology

  Many energy managers will already have implemented a number of measures to help reduce the energy consumption of their boiler plant. Obvious examples include ensuring the …

• Meet the man accelerating green building across Europe

  

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  10 June — written by Elaine Hsieh, GreenBiz Group

  Elaine Hsieh meets Steven Borncamp, a true advocate for promoting policy, practices and technologies for green building across Europe Steven Borncamp is a green building …

• The myth of ‘low energy’ buildings

  

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  7 June — written by Liz Reason, Green Gauge Trust

  With energy prices rising, the time has come to take the energy performance of buildings seriously. The first step is to monitor and measure energy use to find out what works …

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• June’s hot topic: Closing the energy performance gap

  

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  10 June — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees

  When a new low carbon building or refurbishment doesn't perform as well as was predicted, it’s often the 'the design performance gap' that is blamed. This month in the Built …

• How to overcome the building performance gap

  

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  8 June — added by Ginny Mackean, Institute for Sustainability

  Some tools and techniques to help project teams avoid common design pitfalls and help identify and evaluate poorly performing systems.

• A campaign for real architecture

  

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  7 June — written by Paul Hinkin, Black Architecture

  Is accurately assessing the additional value that sustainable buildings create through improved occupant performance the answer to making a robust business case for …

• How Australia is driving down electricity consumption

  

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  7 June — written by Noel Gallagher, Programmed

  Australia has made great strides in reducing water consumption, and now it's the turn of electricity. So what is helping deliver this downward trend? Most organizations in …

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