San Francisco Exploratorium’s New Home to Become Largest U.S. Net-Zero Energy Museum

Posted by on Jul 23, 2011 in ehdd, European green building, exploratorium, gab report, gabreport, largest net zero energy, LEED, mignon o'young, net zero energy, nibbi brothers, richard feldman, rick feldman, tcho | 0 comments The new Exploratorium is finally coming to life. Mignon O’Young of the GABreport posted a great update on the project on July 7. The project is very ambitious on many fronts and is located on the busy Embarcadero next to the Tcho chocolate factory (look forward to exploring some chocolate before and/or after visiting the new location). Rick Feldman of EHDD architecture is the project...
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GSA Pushes For Reforms to Green Bulding Certification

Posted by on Aug 4, 2010 in green building, greenbuilding, GSA, LEED, USGBC | 0 comments Finally! And I really like the quote from the GSA official, “One of the things that I tease the USGBC about is that they really need to re-brand from ‘Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design’ to ‘Leadership in Energy and Environmental Performance,’ and they are picking up on...
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Green building – simply requiring LEED certification doesn’t work

Posted by on Sep 4, 2009 in green building, LEED, new york times | 0 comments The New York Times coverage of LEED certified buildings that are not actually very green is great coverate of a growing problem. Simply installing bamboo floors and bike racks may get a building more LEED points but it doesn’t make the building very green. Even a USGBC commissioned study shows how easy it is to “game the system” and get a high rating using the least expensive,...
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