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How Retrofitting Buildings Boosts the Economy

July 13, 2011 by This Big City
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Eighty per cent of the UK’s current building stock will still be standing in 2050. So if we are to meet our climate targets, we can’t just focus on designing shiny new zero-carbon developments. We need to do much more to make our existing homes, hospitals and offices fit for purpose in a low energy, low waste world. [read more]

Energy Efficiency Deduction Could Benefit You

April 9, 2010 by Chris Cheatham
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I spend a good deal of time discussing federal green building projects, so it only seems natural that I pass on information regarding what could be a very beneficial program in that arena.    Chris DeVolder at 360 Architecture (the designers of the JE Dunn Headquarters) recently informed me about a tax incentive program... [read more]

Bad Breath(e): New Study Reflects Urgent Need to Green NYC's Black Smoke

January 28, 2010 by Stephen Del Percio
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If you've been on the street in New York City -- and it's doubtful you're able to avoid that, unless you use FreshDirect more than I do -- then you've seen the black smoke belching, all Dickensian and foul-smelling and just-plain-awful-looking, from the chimneys of some of the city's bigger buildings. The likelihood is that you've... [read more]

The Year of the Retrofit in New York

October 5, 2009 by Chris Cheatham
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The other day, a reporter contacted me regarding my prediction that this is the year of the retrofit. I stood by my prediction, pointing towards stimulus funding that supports retrofits of existing buildings. I wish I had been able to point out the $1 billion lending program in New York to retrofit existing buildings that was just... [read more]