Buildings
Accelerating Campus Climate Initiatives: Breaking Through Barriers
Accelerating Campus Climate Initiatives: Breaking Through Barriers is a practical guide for anyone working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a college or university: sustainability directors, CFOs, presidents, students, faculty, and staff. Venturing beyond an individual project or best practice, the book explores a wide range of challenges these committed…
Barriers and Breakthroughs for Multitenant Developments
In owner-occupied facilities, it is easy to justify the incorporation of high-performance building features because commonly recognized hard and soft benefits (cost savings, productivity gains, improved occupant health, etc.) are directly recovered by the investment entity. Developers or owners of multitenant office buildings and retail developments, on the other hand,…
Comparison of Life Cycle Analyses of Compact Fluorescent and Incandescent Lamps Based on the Rated Life of Compact Fluorescent Lamps
This paper addresses the debate over compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and incandescents through life cycle analysis (LCA) conducted in the SimaPro1 life cycle analysis program. It compares the environmental impacts of providing a given amount of light (approximately 1,600 lumens) from incandescents and CFLs for 10,000 hours. Special attention has…
Smart Garage Charrette Preread Core
The Smart Garage Charrette Preread Core gives the most important background on the Smart Garage vision (united vehicles, the grid, and buildings through vehicle electrification), technologies, modeling, and market analysis, including hot topics as of October 2008.
Systems Thinking for Radically Efficient and Profitable Data Centers
This presentation shows how to apply a whole-system approach to the energy use in data centers in order to provide 95–99% energy savings. The authors present strategies for saving energy that have been applied effectively to new and existing data centers. For example, using a centralized cooling system can cut…
