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New York City's Proposed Zoning Changes for Flood Zones Intended To Align With Other Rules
05/21/13 By Nadine M. Post
The New York City Dept. of City Planning has issued, for public review, proposed zoning changes to facilitate flood-resilient construction in designated flood zones.

Courtesy of the NYC Dept. of City Planning

Report Shows Green Building Is Growing Around the World
03/11/13 By Harvey M. Bernstein and Michele A. Russo
A new research study conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction on world green building trends demonstrates that green building is well-established across the globe and is expected to grow even more over the next five years.

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05/20/13	Designers Call for Coordinated Effort To Improve New York City Region's Flood Resistance By Nadine M. Post AIA NY and seven other groups call for zoning reforms, building code changes and a more concerted effort at local, state and federal levels to make New York City more sustainable in the future.
05/07/13	Sydney's $6.1-Billion Barangaroo South Planned as Grand Model for Carbon-Neutral Development By Johanna Knapschaefer Lend Lease's team is bent on reducing the embodied carbon of the 7.5-hectare Barangaroo South multi-use development, just getting under way on Sydney's waterfront. The project is part of a 22-hectare redevelopment of a former container wharf that is Sydney's most ambitious project since the 2000 Olympic Games.
04/17/13	National Renewable Energy Lab Begins Its Journey Toward Annual Net-Zero Energy Use By Nadine M. Post DOE lab in Golden, Colo., completes its 2.5 MW solar array.
04/02/13	Study Finds No Positive Correlation Between Mandatory Building Energy Labeling and Lower Energy Use By Nadine M. Post Owners group plans to conduct an empirical analysis of the performance of existing mandatory building lableing programs in the U.S.
02/05/13	ASHRAE and the U.N. Attack Building Emissions on a Global Scale By Nadine M. Post ASHRAE and the U.N. Environment Programme renew joint global effort to help reduce the amount of pollutants released into the atmosphere by building systems.
01/30/13	Contractors See Growth in Green Schools Market By Harvey M. Bernstein and Donna Laquidara-Carr Contractors expect more robust green growth in retrofit and operational improvements at schools.
01/29/13	Green Guarantees Vex Firms With Added Risk By Paula Moore Many contractors and designers are passing up work that includes long-term performance warranties for sustainable building systems.
12/31/12	Benchmarking Programs Identify Energy Savings Potential By Pam Hunter Boston startup identifies $137 million in savings
12/18/12	Sustainability, Modular Delivery and Collaboration Dominate the Buildings Scene By Nadine M. Post Sustainability, modular building and collaborative delivery gained momentum in 2012, but not without challenges and some controversy.
12/10/12	Proposed Green Hospital Standard Is Out for Public Review By Nadine M. Post ASHRAE and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering have released a proposed standard for design, construction and operation of health care facilities for public review.
12/10/12	Green Search Engine Fills Data Gap By Nadine M. Post The U.S. Green Building Council launches GBIG, a public search engine for green building data collected under LEED.
12/05/12	Google Gives U.S. Green Building Council $3-Million Grant to Study Eco-Friendly Products By Nadine M. Post, with Rita Catinella The U.S. Green Building Council plans to build a body of scientific evidence around the content of eco-friendly building products.
11/28/12	Second Crane Strike at Miami Garage Collapse Site Refuted By Scott Judy Two independent sources with knowledge of the investigation into the Oct. 10 collapse of a parking garage at Miami Dade College have refuted a claim reported by ENR that the structure was struck a second time by a crane pick just prior to the fatal incident.
11/21/12	After Superstorm Sandy, New York Mulls Ways to Protect Building Systems By Nadine M. Post New York City considers changing zoning and codes to make buildings more resilient against floods.
10/10/12	Can Moore’s Law Accelerate Energy Efficient Design? By Erin Joyce in New York Experts in design and energy efficiency challenge the industry at Architecture Record’s Innovation Conference. Here are some highlights of their remarks.
10/10/12	NYC Building-Energy-Use Report Called a Step Toward Saving Energy By Nadine M. Post Local Law 84 Benchmarking Report is the largest collection of benchmarking data gathered for a single jurisdiction
09/19/12	FIDIC Report Focuses on Obstacles to Sustainability By Richard Korman in Seoul To avoid compromised or limited sustainability, the evaluations must be made early and avoid overreliance on ratings that could narrow the goal but defeat the purpose.
09/10/12	Data-Center Green Movement Gains Ground By Nadine M. Post Data-center owners are trying to control skyrocketing utility costs by reducing water and electricity use in their resource-thirsty facilities.
09/10/12	Net-Zero Energy-Use Data Center is Focus of HP Labs' Research By Nadine M. Post Data center unit would reduce reliance on the power grid by 90%
09/10/12	Uptime Institute Survey Reveals Trends in Data-Center Energy Conservation By Nadine M. Post 82% of survey respondents say saving energy is about saving cash
08/06/12	Smart-Grid, Building-Power Data Standard Out for Review By Nadine M. Post A proposed standard that would provide a common basis for electrical energy consumers to describe, manage and communicate about electrical energy consumption and forecasting is open for an advisory public review until Sept. 3.
07/18/12	Tumult Grows Over LEED Rating System Update By Nadine M. Post Special interest groups form a coalition to “fix” the process for developing credits toward LEED certification.
07/09/12	The 10 Largest Green Roofs By Scott Lewis ENR surveys the ten largest green roofs in the world by square footage.
06/27/12	Green Roofs Take Root in India By Construction World Magazine Technology and climate is playing an important role in their environmental payback.
05/21/12	Work Continues on Updated Commercial Building Energy Survey By Pam Hunter Work is under way on latest iteration of commercial buildings energy survey.
05/14/12	GSA Brainchild: Full Fees After Building Hits Energy-Use Targets By Nadine M. Post For an office project in Seattle, the U.S. General Services Administration is withholding 0.5% of the design-build team’s contract value until the building performs as promised, regarding energy use.
05/07/12	Georgia Tech Builds Carbon-Neutral Lab to Study Carbon Neutrality By Scott Judy Unlike most laboratories, Georgia Tech’s is designed as both an energy miser and a prototype for net-zero energy-use research facilities.
04/30/12	Lots More Green Building Paperwork Coming Soon, Warn Code Watchers By Nadine M. Post in Grapevine, Texas Steel group warns of future, intense material information and documentation requirements to meet green buildings codes and standards, and gives tips on compliance to steel sector members. Lots more paperwork will be necessary to document carbon footprint of all building materials, beginning in two or three years, say the experts.
04/16/12	Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Green Roof Captures Water, Camouflages Building and Complicated Construction By Nadine M. Post 22,000-sq-ft visitor center with a 10,000-sq-ft green roof kicks off Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s stormwater management program
04/16/12	National Renewable Energy Lab Building Meets Annual Energy Use Goals By Nadine M. Post For its first full year of occupancy, the nation’s biggest energy miser—a 220,000-sq-ft office building in Golden, Colo.—met its modeled annual energy-use targets.
04/09/12	New Green Model Code Released By Pam Hunter 2012 version of IgCC provides more flexibility to builders and designers2012 version of IgCC provides more flexibility to builders and designers
02/27/12	Big Usage Gaps Exist Between Building Energy Models and Performance By Nadine M. Post in Chicago Mechanical engineers burst myths about green buildings and energy conservation.
02/20/12	Tensioning Eases Stress on a 13-Story Sustainability Showcase By Nadine M. Post Switch to novel concrete system from damped steel moment frame sliced $4 million off the structural cost of the San Francisco building.
02/20/12	U.S. Post-Tensioned Seismic Systems Not Yet Tested by a Quake By Nadine M. Post Novel structural systems are designed to limit building movement and damage in major earthquakes
12/19/11	Green Building Booms in India By Mridu Khullar Relph In India, the market for green buildings is exploding.
12/19/11	Green Schoolhouses to Be Built With Donated Materials, Volunteers By Scott Blair With the first of 24 LEED-Platinum schools breaking ground in Phoenix, the all-volunteer Green Schoolhouses Series has launched to provide $200 million in new, 100% donated buildings for disadvantaged public schools across the country.
10/17/11	Green Model Contract Forms Coming Out Early Next Year By Joann Gonchar in Toronto The American Institute of Architects previewed green model contract documents at Greenbuild in Toronto. The International Living Future Institute unveiled a net-zero energy use building certification program.
10/05/11	Two Small Buildings are Taking ‘Green’ to Big Extremes By Tim Newcomb Design for 38,000-sq-ft hospital in Washington state calls for slashing energy use by nearly two thirds compared to a typical hospital. Design for a 52,000-sq-ft office building in Seattle aims for net-zero energy use to offset energy consumption of 16,000 Btu per sq ft per year.
08/24/11	Green Building Code 'Rollback' in N.M. Sparks Debate By Ben Ikenson in Albuquerque New Mexico’s Construction Industries Commission voted to replace a stringent energy conservation code developed by the state’s previous governor, sparking a lawsuit and vigorous industry debate.New Mexico’s Construction Industries Commission voted to replace a stringent energy conservation code developed by the state’s previous governor, sparking a lawsuit and vigorous industry debate.
08/15/11	Report Identifies Barriers, Solutions to Energy-Benchmarking Policies By Pam Hunter A new report from the Institute for Market Transformation takes a look at the barriers to implementing effective building energy benchmarking and disclosure laws and how to overcome those barriers.
07/18/11	Super-Green Steps: Colo. Building Hits Net-Zero Energy For 1 Day By Nadine Post Nation’s largest “net-zero” building could top its June 22 milestone of net-zero-energy use for a day, with NZEU for the entire month of July.
07/04/11	Joplin, Mo., Devastated by May 22 Tornado, Learning Lessons From Rubble By John Gregerson Post-twister forensics lay the groundwork for a massive reconstruction effort, with probable revisions in building code.
06/29/11	Kansas Tornado Town Rebuilding With an Eye Toward Sustainability By John Gregerson Greensburg learned lessons about smart rebuilding.

04/27/11 Haiti’s President-Elect Sees Major Tasks Ahead
04/06/11 Closely Watched Building Lives Up to Expectations
04/06/11 Construction Contributions Drive Hospital’s Rise in Haiti
04/06/11 Risky ‘Golden’ Job Proves Itself a ‘Door Opener’
02/23/11 Hundreds of Roofs Buckle After Storms Slam Northeast
02/17/11 Forensics Team Seeks Cause Of Midwest Green Roof Collapse
01/26/11 Third Millennium Rescue for Ailing Pyramid
01/12/11 Structures Group Criticizes Building Rating System Draft
12/22/10 Metrodome Repair Under Way, But Vikings Want New Venue
12/15/10 Weight of Snow Deflates Fabric Roof Of Minneapolis Metrodome
11/24/10 Global Cities Rally To Tackle Sustainability
11/10/10 Tighter Standards, Model Code Aim To Cut Building Energy Use
11/03/10 Rating System Preview at ASCE
10/06/10 Chile’s Quake Likely To Have Minor Impact on U.S. Practice
10/06/10 Prefabricated Unit Prototype Contains Solar Collector
09/29/10 House ‘Quake Belts’ Could Prevent Collapses
09/29/10 Once Again, Rivals Slam PCA’s Proposed Sample Ordinance
09/15/10 Is It a Park, Wastewater Treatment Plant or Both?
09/01/10 Construction Methods of the Ancient Inca Offer Sustainable Lessons
06/30/10 Higher Ed Sets Power Goals
06/10/10 Architects Release Tracking Tool For Sustainable Design
06/09/10 Safety Concerns Close Historic Baltimore Monument
06/09/10 New Process Shows Dollar Value of Building Green
06/09/10 Rating Controversy Heats Up
06/02/10 Green 'SITES' Rating Program Picks 175 Pilot Projects
05/19/10 Contractor Offers Limited Fix For Troubled Seattle Tower
05/06/10 Feds Seek Energy-Efficient Building Projects
05/05/10 Green Design-Build Model Crafted for Buildings To Achieve Net-Zero Energy Use
05/05/10 Report: Green Opportunities
03/17/10 Green-Standard Efforts Merge
02/25/10 Earthquake Engineers Head to Haiti for More Research
02/10/10 Group Clarifies Rating System Confusion
02/10/10 Surviving Hangar Shored Against Storm
02/03/10 NIST Recommends Code Changes for Fabric-Covered Steel Structures
01/20/10 Remote Sensing Catalogs Quake Damage to Buildings in Haiti
01/18/10 Structural Engineers Begin On-Site Damage Assessments in Haiti
01/06/10 India Considers 'Green' National Rating System
12/16/09 Troubled Tower Project Halted by Settlement Ends With a Crash
12/03/09 Masdar City Offers $150,000 Prize for Sustainable Concrete Mix
11/18/09 Sustainability Boosters See Greener Pastures
08/26/09 Winds Blow Roof Section Off Brand-New Indian Terminal
08/26/09 Las Vegas High-Rise Problem Snares California Inspector
07/08/09 Building Rating System Requirement Raises Concerns
07/01/09 Landscape Architecture Rising
07/01/09 Debut Exam for Yet Another 'Sustainable' Credential
07/01/09 Refrigerants More Greenhouse Than 'Green,' Study Says
07/01/09 Landscape Architects Invade Big Cities
06/10/09 Greener Empire State Building Could Be Model for Retrofits
05/15/09 House Passes Spending Bills For Schools and Defense
05/13/09 Green Building Rating System Revamp Gets High Marks
05/06/09 Industry Participants Outline Added Green-Building Risks
03/25/09 Vegas' CityCenter Problems Mount
03/04/09 Nearby Subway Excavation Suspected As Cause of Cologne Building Collapse
01/28/09 Some Surprises at Shake Test

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