Environmental Building Strategies is pleased to announce the addition of two members to our team.
Justin Moresco is a licensed professional engineer with 4+ years experience in the green building and construction industries. His engineering experience has focused on existing buildings, from working on LEED certifications to the seismic evaluation of dozens of structures. Before focusing [...]

Contractors and bidders need to know what they are up against throughout the entire building process. By putting the requirements of commissioning and information about LEED Documentation in the bid packages, owners or project managers will get a much better understanding of what is entailed. It will also separate those who have experience [...]

The new version of LEED has some new and improved features and I wanted to discuss this idea of “weighting credits” that the USGBC has mentioned since GreenBuild.
To start with the new book is 674 pages - ridiculously big so plan on paying more for it than you did.
Secondly, they have decided to organize all [...]

I figured it was time to poke some fun at ourselves and our industry. So here a couple jokes to get you through the day.

• How many daylighting consultants does it take to change a light bulb?

  None—the sun will be back up in exactly 10 hours.

• How many LEED Accredited Professionals does it take to change a light bulb?

  Four—one to tell you how to earn LEED points by changing it, one to change it, one to document the change, and one to deliver the check to the U.S. Green Building Council for certifying the change.

• How many product manufacturers does it take to change a light bulb?
  

Commissioning is used to deliver a building that operates as it was designed, and it’s not completed until the building operators are trained to run the building correctly. The focus is typically on the heating ventilating and air conditioning, but can involve the building envelope, emergency power and any other system that is part [...]