Tag Archives: green building
a global green building standard?
Well not quite. Green Building Councils from the UK, USA, Australia, and the BRE in the United Kingdom (BRE is the owner of BREEAM) have signed an agreement to prepare a common methodology for calculating carbon emissions from buildings (here … Continue reading
Green Building – new insurance revenue
For the insurance business most of the media reports and predictions are dire, focused on the increasing losses, particularly the financial crisis and increasing claims many resulting from increasing number of natural disasters it said. Finally big business has seen … Continue reading
Green building its cheaper than you think
The cost of green building is lower than traditional building period. For example, design the building envelope with decent solar shading immediately (and forever) reduces the space cooling load, therefore the building needs a smaller chiller. But that is only … Continue reading
Out of Service
Three vending machines all using energy, a closer look reveals the unit in the middle is out of service, see the photo below. Didn’t anyone think about turning off the electricity completely? As you can see some of the lamps … Continue reading
Whole System Thinking
Changing the world is difficult, to change custom and practice is one tiny step on the journey. One of the primary reasons for poor building performance happens early in the design process and often before the engineers are consulted. The … Continue reading
HAESCO Energy Efficiency Event
As executive director of HAESCO I was honoured to present at our seminar held last September 2008 (refer photo above). The event was without doubt an overwhelming success with more 250 delegates from the energy sector and industry attending. EMSD … Continue reading
Building Energy Efficiency Book
I was one of the many experts that contributed to the book titled Building Energy Efficiency – Why Green Buildings Are Key to Asia’s Future published by the Asia Business Council. This book covers energy issues and building energy codes … Continue reading
Who is designing your Green building?
I attended the Enviroseries 08 conference, the topic was energy efficiency. What has become increasing transparent is that the business as usual approach to buildings, and green building is just not working. For green buildings who designs them? It seems … Continue reading
