Building Design + Construction magazine’s fifth green building White Paper is now available for download. We commented on last year’s edition- Green Building and the Bottom Line- in a series of posts, discussing restaurants, retail, office buildings, hotels, and professional liability issues for architects and engineers as presented in the White Paper. The 2007 installment [...]
October 26th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedBD+C White Paper
NYC Eateries Earn Certification from Green Restaurant Association
Earlier this week, B.R. Guest Restaurants completed the Green Restaurant Association’s (”GRA”) certification program for all twelve of its New York City restaurants (Atlantic Grill, Blue Fin, Blue Water Grill, Dos Caminos Park, Dos Caminos Soho, Dos Camino Third, Fiamma Osteria, Vento Trattoria, Ruby Foo’s, Ruby Foo’s Times Square and Level V). B.R. Guest now [...]
June 15th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
“Making Green Building a Mainstream Practice” Conference Offers Thoughts from Developers on LEED
Last Thursday, Bank of America, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Next American City magazine sponsored an invitation-only conference at the Museum of Natural History as part of the Urban Innovation Symposium Series. Called “From the Ground Up: Making Green Building a Mainstream Practice,” a variety of both market-rate and affordable housing developers, including Douglas [...]
February 8th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Crain’s: NYC Developers Remain Unconvinced of Green Building Economics
Today’s edition of Crain’s New York Business contains an article describing a variety of New York City-based developers who remain skeptical about building green. (Unfortunately the article is only available online to premium subscribers so I’m unable to provide a link). NYC Developers Resist the Push to Go Green quotes Rex Hakimian of The Hakimian [...]
January 30th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
BD+C White Paper Chapter 4: Selling Green to Retail Markets
This is my second post in what I hope will continue to be a series reacting to each chapter of the 2006 Building Design + Construction White Paper: Green Buildings and the Bottom Line. Chapter 4 discusses retail stores and their comparatively slow adaptation of sustainable design principles. Why care? Retail stores are the largest [...]
December 12th, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
BD+C White Paper: Chapter 3, Financing Green Office Buildings
My somewhat ambitious goal for the remainder of 2006, at least with respect to this blog, is to provide a review, with commentary, for each chapter of the 2006 Building Design + Construction green building White Paper (which came out last month and is entitled Green Buildings and the Bottom Line). In my last post [...]
December 5th, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
BD+C Green Building White Paper Acknowledges Potential Green Liability Issues
I’m planning a more detailed post about Building Design + Construction’s recently released 2006 White Paper on Sustainability (this year’s is titled Green Building and the Bottom Line), but I wanted to briefly point out that item number ten (of ten!) in the editors’ Executive Summary is a direct acknowledgement of the legal issues that [...]
November 28th, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued