Hurricane Sandy made landfall on Oct. 29, 2012, with devastating impact. As the enormous storm approached the Northeast coastline, it combined with other weather fronts and…
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Commercial building deep-energy retrofits provide substantially greater energy savings—often reducing a building’s energy consumption by up to 50 percent—than traditional retrofits. Yet they offer more than…
Buildings use a lot of energy–about 40 percent of all energy used worldwide. According to the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, currently existing technologies could…
To most architects, the opportunity to conceive and design the renovation or adaptive reuse of an existing building is seductive. Once the perfect image and plan…
For those of us involved in the business of facilities management, it can at times seem overwhelming and never-ending. In my 21st year in facilities management…
As this issue goes to press, the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness (ESIC) Act of 2013, S. 1392, has been sidelined by the debate in Washington,…