Dr. Pepper Gets a LEED-Gold Green Retrofit
The company expects to cut expenses 25% with a payback of one year for its upfront costs.
The company expects to cut expenses 25% with a payback of one year for its upfront costs.
The green design emphasis is daylighting, extensive gardens and a large green roof.
Training programs will be created to give building operators the skills they need to optimize energy efficiency.
NYC is on a roof-painting binge, 3.5 million square feet and counting.
These highest standards for environmental construction are now influencing sites all over the world
Modular classrooms are often used to address overcrowding. This one uses half the energy and has much better indoor air quality.
Chicago will cut energy consumption in 24 million square feet; the utility will upgrade 30 million sq. feet for commercial customers.
In its first year, the building saved $2.4 million, 5% more than expected.
If we really want our buildings to run on solar, we have to build them right. That's what California will now require, built for solar.
This is the first LEED for Neighborhood Development- Platinum in NYC and the first for a university campus plan nationally.