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Kalyani.rc
Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Member Since: 01/16/2017
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What is a High Performance Home?
"High performance homes" is a term that’s bandied around a lot. We’ve found that many people don’t really understand exactly what it means or the benefits of owning a high performance home until they’ve lived in one. So what really is a high performance home and what do you need to think about when building one? The Energy Act 2005 defines a ‘high performance building’ as one that “i...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/27/2023 + Show |
Architecture 2030 and the International Living Future Institute update their Net Zero Energy Goals
Architecture 2030 and the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) are making an effort to grow their energy efficiency reporting and certification programs. Both the 2030 Challenge and the Living Building Challenge (LBC) have encouraged progressive designers and owners with aspirational goals that are eminently hard to achieve. New policies announced on March 8, 2017, are intended to remove unnecessary barriers to certifications and sca...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/27/2023 + Show |
Massachusetts Preps for US Offshore Wind Construction Boom
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), a ratepayer-funded research organization that works to accelerate the success of clean energy technologies, companies and projects in the state, last week announced plans to conduct a study of potential offshore wind construction facilities in Massachusetts. The Offshore Wind Ports & Infrastructure...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/16/2017 + Show |
Apple's $5 billion campus will officially open in April
Apple has announced that its new $5 billion (£4 billion) campus will be open to employees starting in April. The Silicon Valley tech giant said it would take over six months to move more than 12,000 workers to the new campus, which is set on a 175-acre site. The ring-shaped facility, which Apple is now calling "Apple Park," is several months...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/16/2017 + Show |
Deep Energy Retrofits Initiative by Environmental Health Watch, Ohio
How low can you go? Imagine reducing the energy use in your home by 70-90%. It is possible– and can be economically feasible– without using renewable energy. Super-insulation and Passive House principles can be applied to existing housing. In fact, homes that need a lot of rehab work are a great opportunity for cost-effective deep energy...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/15/2017 + Show |
Affordable Green Housing Center Opens in Cleveland, Ohio
Various non-profits, government agencies, and community development organizations have partnerships and alliances devoted to promoting healthy green housing in Cleveland. The Affordable Green Housing Center (AGHC) is one such initiative established to help address the multiple environmental, health and economic problems related to housing in...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/15/2017 + Show |
China to invest $361 billion into renewable power generation by 2020
China will invest 2.5 trillion yuan ($361 billion) into renewable power generation by 2020, as the world's largest energy market continues to shift away from dirty coal power towards cleaner fuels. The investment will create over 13 million jobs in the sector, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said in a blueprint document that lays out...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/13/2017 + Show |
Battery Breakthrough by CUNY Energy Institute: Low Cost, Long Life, Non-Toxic & Safe
A low-cost, nonflammable battery with a high energy density and the capability of thousands of more recycling cycles than any comparable battery to come out of a laboratory has been developed by researchers at The City University of New York’s Energy Institute. In research published in the journal Nature Communications, the Energy Institute...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/13/2017 + Show |
Lego Looks to Plants as Building Blocks for Bricks
Danish toy maker, seeking to decrease its carbon footprint, considers corn and wheat as an alternative to petroleum-based plastic. Lego makes billions of bricks a year out of petroleum-based plastic, but it is experimenting with more wholesome ingredients: wheat and corn. The Danish toy maker, reported a 6% rise in 2016 sales, has been...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/11/2017 + Show |
Heathrow Airport Targets Zero Carbon, Zero Waste by 2050
London’s Heathrow airport launched a sustainability strategy that includes using 100 percent renewable energy by April and operating a zero-carbon, zero-waste airport by 2050. Dubbed Heathrow 2.0, the plans include building an R&D incubator, a new carbon-neutral runway and establishing an ultra-low emission zone by 2025. The airport has...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/11/2017 + Show |
Product Highlight/News: The Zero Tool by Architecture 2030 Product Name: The Zero Tool Company: Architecture 2030 & Maalka News/Highlights: “The Zero Tool by Architecture 2030 offers an intuitive and powerful way to establish energy consumption baselines and energy use reduction targets, and to see how an existing building or building...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/08/2017 + Show |
Danish school has installed the world’s largest solar facade
A new building in Copenhagen is covered by 12,000 colorful solar tiles, making it one of the largest building-integrated solar power plants in Denmark. The tiles completely cover the building and will provide it with 300 MWh of electricity per year, meeting over half of the new campus of Copenhagen International School’s energy needs. But...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Last updated: 03/04/2017 + Show |
Event: 2017 Design-Build Conference & Expo, 11/8 - 11/10, Philadelphia, PA
The Design-Build Institute of America is the only organization that defines, teaches and promotes best practices in design-build. Design-build is a collaborative approach to project delivery that integrates design and construction with a single-point of responsibility contract. For two decades, design-build practitioners, specialty contractors,...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 11/08/2017 + Show |
Event: BuildingEnergy NYC, 10/12, New York
The BuildingEnergy NYC Conference + Trade Show is NYC's fastest-growing event for professionals and practitioners working to build a more sustainable world. It brings more than 600 industry leaders and emerging professionals together to learn from and network with each other. This year's event, chaired by Eric Davis of Con Edison and Ryan Cassidy...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 10/12/2017 + Show |
Event: CitiesAlive Conference, 9/18 - 9/21, Seattle, WA
Building Resilience and Equity Across Cascadia: People, Community, and Places Within the western region of North America lies Cascadia. Although the boundaries of the region differ depending on ecological, political, economic or cultural lines - it's undeniable that Cascadia is expansive. The climate of Cascadia calls for adaptation of building...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 09/18/2017 + Show |
Free Event: 10th Annual Boston GreenFest, 8/11 - 8/13, Boston, MA
10th Annual Boston GreenFest! Boston GreenFest is a grassroots effort organized by the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. and its dedicated team of community volunteers. Our goal is to educate and empower people to create a more sustainable, healthier world. We are actively building an interconnected, ever expanding network throughout our...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 08/11/2017 + Show |
Event: Intersolar and ees North America 2017, 7/10 - 7/13, San Francisco, CA
Intersolar North America, the most attended solar event in North America, takes place each July in San Francisco. The exhibition focuses on the areas of photovoltaics, smart renewable energy and solar heating & cooling technologies. ees North America, co-located with Intersolar North America, covers the entire value chain of innovative battery...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 07/10/2017 + Show |
Event: Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo - Placing Cities First, June 26-28, Austin TX
Smart Cities Connect Conference and Expo - Placing Cities First June 26-28, Austin Convention Center 500 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, Texas, 78701 www.austinconventioncenter.com Building upon the 2016 Smart Cities Innovation Summit, we are pleased to announce our program expansion and name change to the 2017 Smart Cities Connect...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 06/26/2017 + Show |
Event: BOMA 2017 International Conference and Expo, 6/24 - 6/27, Nashville, TN
Your commercial real estate success story began with the first steps you took toward building relationships to make your business thrive. Take the next steps toward boosting your property—and your career—at the industry’s premier professional event: the BOMA International Annual Conference & Expo. Held in Music City in downtown...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 06/24/2017 + Show |
Webinar: LEED v4: Paints and Coatings, 6/22, 12:00 PM -1:00 PM EDT
Get a comprehensive overview of LEED v4 BD+C New Construction credits – and how paints and coatings can contribute directly and indirectly to LEED credits. We’ll review credit intents, explain credit requirements, and explore where to find materials to meet the needs of the credits. Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the motivation behind...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 06/22/2017 + Show |
Event: World Green Infrastructure Congress 2017, 6/20 - 6/22, Berlin, Germany
The WGIC 2017 World Congress is a multi-day event around the greening of buildings (roofing, façade and interior greening) with accompanying events (eg urban climate, rainwater management, sustainability, future city). At the end of the congress, there will be the possibility to participate in excursions to special projects. In 2017 the...
By Kalyani.rc // Passive House / Sustainability Enthusiast Event Date: 06/20/2017 + Show |
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