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• Lukoil Says "Privet" to 1095 Sixth Avenue; Tenants at 11 Times Square to Follow?

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 414
  Some of those rumored green shoots in the local commercial leasing market appear to be sprouting in green buildings. Last week, Lukoil Pan Americas - the American subsidiary of the Russian oil and gas giant - signed an 11-year, 20,400-square-foot lease at the Blackstone Groups 1095 Sixth Avenue for $85 per square ...
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• San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid Receives LEED Gold

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 439
  San Francisco, CA  recently announced that its most recognizable high-rise building, the Transamerica Pyramid, has been awarded Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification, the second highest energy efficiency rating- by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). With this award, the ...
  5 days ago

• USGBC Approves IREM Course on Sustainable Real Estate Management

  
  Facility Blog — Authority: 472
  The course focuses on common sense, cost effective ways to meet owner, tenant, and resident demand for “green” real estate and increase a property’s NOI through sustainable real estate management techniques. by HeidiTFM
  5 days ago

• Big Blue Building: Massive College Point Police Academy Set to Break Ground

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 414
  Even for those of us whose understanding of what police academies should be like is centered around Steve Guttenberg and The Guy Who Makes Noises , the news that NYPDs main training facility is over 40 years old is kind of alarming. This is a big city, it requires a large and well-trained police force and... well, ...
  6 days ago

• HOK Announces New Green Building Rating System: CGGH

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 135
  Always a leader in sustainable design, today HOK announced development of a new green building rating system (look out USGBC!): Checklist for Gingerbread Green Homes (CGGH) . Developed by an interdisciplinary team of HOK’s finest ( John Cantrell , Weronika Cichosz, JoAnn Brookes, Lori Selcer, and Julian Tablada ...
  1 week ago

• Boeing, Nordea, MRI Achieve LEED Certification

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 620
  Boeing and Midwest Research Institute buildings have received LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Nordea will receive a LEED plaque for its 14 LEED-certified buildings.The Boeing Company recently received LEED Gold certification for its Houston site, reports Reliable Plant.The LEED Gold ...
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• ARRA Funds For State And Local Governments

  
  Facility Blog — Authority: 472
  In an effort to clarify how ARRA funding ties to state energy code adoption and enforcement, 14 organizations have developed an explanatory statement in order to clarify for state and local governments. by AnneTFM
  1 week ago

• LEED for Homes Point by Point: Innovation & Design

  
  Green Life Smart Life — Authority: 424
  Innovation & Design :: 9 points achieved out of 11 points available :: We achieved 9 out of the 11 available points in this category. ID 1.3 Professional Credentialed with respect to LEED for Homes is apparently not available yet although we are using one (I believe this is in effect for applications made ...
  1 week ago

• City Drops Mandatory Retrofits But Passes Greener, Greater Buildings Plan

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 414
  Earlier today, the City Council passed the four pieces of legislation which Mayor Bloomberg introduced last April as his "Greener, Greater Buildings Plan." As youll recall, building owners immediately opposed one of the bills (Int. 967: Audits & Retrocommissioning), which would have required them to implement a ...
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• The Rating Game: ASHRAEs Building Energy Quotient Newest Ratings Player, Durst Gets On Board

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 414
  Seven and a half years ago, The New Yorkers Hendrick Hertzberg greeted the arrival of the short-lived, pretty thoroughly noxious neoconservative broadsheet The New York Sun with a gracious invocation of an E.B. White quote on the old (and equally noxious) New York Suns demise. White bemoaned the loss of "a voice in ...
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• Santa Monica Pushes for Stricter Green Building Laws, While NYC Backs Down

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 620
  A tale of two cities shows both sides of the green building movement. Santa Monica, Calif., known as an environmentally-friendly city, is proposing stricter green building requirements for single-family homes, while New York City is backing down on its ambitious energy-efficiency improvement plans for the city’s ...
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• The nearly news: Resales and rentals at Chicago’s “favorite eco-friendly project”

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 141
  With Aqua saddled with Fannie Mae issues and uncertainty surrounding its hotel component, and with the Parkhomes at Lakeshore East taking their sweet time in closing (deliveries are set to begin this month), a two-year-old tower could end up being the biggest feather in Magellan Development ’s cap this year. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Closings Commence in Brownsville at Habitat for Humanitys 1870 Eastern Parkway

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 414
  Over two years ago, we wrote about 1870 Eastern Parkway, a 41-unit, 3-building affordable condominium complex in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. The project, which was designed by Dattner Architects and developed by Habitat for Humanity, was completed back in September and is seeking a LEED Gold rating from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cities Will Soon Regulate Energy Use

  
  Green Building Law Update — Authority: 456
  The future of green building regulations usually starts in big cities. Cities like San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and New York City were some of the first to incorporate green building certification into regulations and building codes. The next frontier in green building regulations will be energy performance and New ...
  2 weeks ago

• Element Hotels Power Up Another Eco-Innovation: In An Industry First, All Element Hotels To Install Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

  
  Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Ownership News, Resort Reviews & Guides — Authority: 139
  Element Hotels to Make ChargePoint Charging Stations Available at its Properties By the End of 2009, Along with Preferred Parking for Electric Cars and Hybrids Rolling out the “green carpet” for drivers of electric and hybrid vehicles, Element Hotels today announced its goal to install electric ...
  3 weeks ago

• Times Up: Once a Burgeoning Green Neighborhood, the Times Square Submarket is Struggling

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 414
  As part of gbNYCs rolling transformation from one platform to another -- WordPress to Drupal, for all you curious nerdz -- weve been having to do a lot of re-tagging of old posts. The reasons for this are both complicated and uninteresting, but its working: our Google rating is back, for one thing, and things are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Great Green Job of the Week: Director of Development & Communications – Urban Green

  
  Life within me — Authority: 139
  Urban Green Council , the New York Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is a nonprofit organization working to advance sustainable building in the New York City area. Urban Green seeks a Director of Development & Communications who is highly motivated and enthusiastic about growing the green ...
  3 weeks ago

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