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Valley View Schools Improve Efficiency
By: Keith Hobbs - Monday, November 23, 2009
Source: Schneider Electric
The Valley View Independent School District (VVISD) in Valley View, Texas, is implementing $1.2 million in facility enhancements designed to improve operations, comfort and efficiency at nine district buildings. Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, will complete the work as a performance contract with the district. Schneider Electric guarantees that VVISD will reduce its utility costs by more than $52,000 annually when the project is completed in June 2010.

Architectural Space as a Component of Site Design
By: Richard Harrison - Monday, November 23, 2009
Source: www.rhsdplanning.com
Architectural talent does not automatically mean land planning talent.
An experienced “renderer” can make a bland site plan come alive, yet this does not mean it’s a good plan – it’s just a “good looking” plan. It takes more than a good looking site plan to make a sustainable neighborhood.

Dockside Green
By: q bo Design Group - Thursday, November 5, 2009
Source: iGreenBuild.com
Dockside Green is 1,300,000 square foot Mixed-use community in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Dockside Green is a 6.05 hectare (15 acres) redevelopment of a brownfield site located in the heart of the City of Victoria. This former industrial site is located close to downtown Victotria.

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Obama Announces Billions for 'Smart' Power Grid
By: President Obama - Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Source: iGreenBuild.com
President Barack Obama has announced $3.4 billion in spending for the nation's power transmission system to foster new technologies. He likened the effort to the ambitious development of the national highway system 50 years ago.

GreenGov Challenge Seeks All Fed Employees Energy Ideas
By: GreenGov - Thursday, October 22, 2009
Source: iGreenBuild.com
From October 19th through October 31st, the White House is calling on Federal employees and military personnel to take the GreenGov Challenge -- an online participatory program that challenges Federal employees and military personnel to take part in the Presidents Executive Order on Federal Sustainability by submitting their own clean energy ideas and voting on others.

BOMI Dictionary Merges with Web-Based FMPedia© Standardizing Building Industry Terms
By: Kelsy Pazur - Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Source: BOMI International
BOMI will merge its 343-page Dictionary of the Built Environment, consisting of more than 4,500 terms, with the existing FMpedia, an on-line glossary for the facility management industry developed by the IFMA Foundation. BOMI's contribution will amount to a 300% growth in the number of definitions currently available through FMpedia. The format will allow viewers to comment on individual entries and will standardize definitions of terms used in the international building and facility management professions.

Seven steps to a sustainable building, a performance path.
By: Andrew Michler - Thursday, April 16, 2009
Source: iGreenBuild.com

They have been called our third skin, the buildings that we live and work in. We also refer to them as the built environment where, on average, we spend 90% of our day.

As our understanding advances we learn that buildings are much more than a skin. They act as our eyes, lungs, frame and meditation. In short, buildings are more akin to a body, a system that works together.

The Green Museum
By: Sarah S. Brophy and Elizabeth Wylie - Monday, March 23, 2009
Source: iGreenBuild.com
Global climate conditions demand a response by institutions that are here for the long haul, as museums are: to collect, preserve, and interpret in perpetuity. Environmentally friendly practices are crucial to the mission of our museums, and as learning institutions of all types, museums are uniquely suited to modeling green behavior. In The Green Museum, authors Sarah Brophy and Elizabeth Wylie, acclaimed across the country for bringing green to the museum, offer a complete handbook to guide museum staff in incorporating green design into new construction and day-to-day operations.

NEARLY $63.2 BILLION LOST BY FACILITIES INDUSTRY SINCE 2004
By: Antonella Barcutian - Friday, April 18, 2008
Source: www.bomi.org
Annapolis, MD- In August 2004 the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reported a conservative estimate that each year the US capital facilities industry loses over $15.8 billion due to “the industry’s continued paper-based business practices, a lack of standardization, and inconsistent technology adoption among stakeholders".


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