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New environmental benchmarking tool will help businesses gauge performance and set improvement targets
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23 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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
BREEAM goes international to capitalize on its popularity abroad
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6 June — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
The popularity and success of the sustainable building standard BREEAM has pushed the BRE into launching an international version. The BREEAM International New Construction …
Driverless cars: Who's leading the race to be first to market?
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7 June — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
Driverless cars are coming closer to reality with eight major global motoring players all working on the technology. Driverless cars could offer a number of environmental …