Almost a year ago, USGBC announced that it was developing a new building standard in cooperation with ASHRAE and IESNA. Standard 189P for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings remained open for public comment through the end of last July. Though modeled on it, 189P is not the same thing as LEED. It’s intended to contain a series of performance-related criteria- including targets for energy and water efficiency- that buildings must satisfy in order for municipalities to issue a certificate of occupancy for new buildings or major renovation projects. The Green Building Initiative has announced that, it too, is in the process of developing a similar standard based on its Green Globes tool.
May 7th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Standard 189P"
The Top 10 News Stories in Green Real Estate from 2007
In an article that was published yesterday, Andrew Burr of the CoStar Group listed his top 10 “most influential” green news items of 2007. We wrote about many of these important stories here at gbNYC last year, so we present Mr. Burr’s list below with links to our supporting posts. Two items in particular jump [...]
January 4th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued