An article in Fast Company touches on the concerns about energy-hogging LEED certified buildings.
FORBES: Energy-hogging LEED-certified buildings cause concern
However, this new requirement is not retroactive and some LEED certified buildings are turning out to be energy hogs.
FORBES: Energy-hogging LEED-certified buildings cause concern
The building is in the process of being LEED certified upon final completion.
Last year, Bruce Henderson with the Charlotte Observer decided to look into the energy usage of the LEED certified ImaginOn building.
FORBES: Energy-hogging LEED-certified buildings cause concern
Starbucks was interested in having its cafes LEED certified but was hindered by the cost of certification, which was designed to evaluate individual designed buildings.
And, as a triple-bottom-line company, DCG is also mindful of the environment, from LEED certified buildings to consideration of the carbon footprint in their own operations.
My blog post came about after reading an article in the online edition of Fast Company in which the energy efficiency of LEED certified buildings was being questioned.
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As a social scientist I wondered if anyone has as yet studied whether high tech companies have more than their fair market share of the LEED certified buildings in the US?
Platinum is the highest LEED ranking and only 6% of LEED-certified buildings win such status.
LEED-certified Martha Jefferson (a rare accomplishment for any hospital) reduced their energy costs by an impressive 35 percent.
The Freedom Tower, the site's tallest skyscraper, also aims to be LEED-certified, as do ever more government buildings across America.
The newest addition to this movement is the LEED Gold certified International Motorsports Center, better known as the headquarters building for NASCAR.
Lights in the warehouse are now green fluorescents, scraps and rainwater runoff are reused, and the LEED-certified factory is aiming for zero waste.
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The 210-room Hotel Indigo, part of the IHG chain, is the first LEED-certified hotel in downtown San Diego and offers guests free wi-fi, hypo-allergenic hardwood floors and windows that open to the great outdoors in all rooms.
The U.N. talks, for instance, are held in the LEED-certified Qatar National Convention Center, which is built with sustainably harvested wood, uses skylights and LEDs to curb energy use, and supplies 12.5 percent of its own energy with 11, 000 feet of solar panels.
Nevada's first platinum-certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings stand proudly here, constructed of recycled materials and rammed-earth walls, with passive cooling, renewable heating, reclaimed water and solar-electricity panels, all harvesting clean energy.
In addition, PNC is currently building the greenest skyrise in the world in steel town, The Tower at PNC Plaza, that will be certified LEED Platinum and is slated to open in 2015.
Since the building was certified prior to the LEED v3 certification system was released, it will maintain its LEED certification despite its poor energy use record.
FORBES: Energy-hogging LEED-certified buildings cause concern
As each company seeks to be greener than the next, so demand is growing to get buildings certified by the Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design programme (LEED), America's biggest green rating system, run by the not-for-profit Green Building Council.
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