Your car pings your smartphone to let you know it’s due for an oil change. Your tablet recognizes that you just walked into LAX and tells you the wait at security is currently 25 minutes. An embedded chip on your shirt alerts you before you drop […]
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Online retail powerhouse Amazon is doing some shopping of its own – this time for clean electricity generated at a solar farm. The power will be harnessed to support Amazon’s data centers, and the company has announced a goal of using 100 percent renewable energy across […]
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Tom Ridge, first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and former governor of Pennsylvania, took the stage Thursday for the Breakfast General Session Keynote at NAIOP’s Commercial Real Estate Conference 2015. As governor of Pennsylvania — for nine years, six months and five days, […]
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Developers and investors alike are asking a question more frequently when assessing a site: “Is there a smart grid?” In Canada, the answer is increasingly yes, and increasingly smart. Blackouts and brownouts come at a tremendous cost to the economy in general — but to manufacturers, […]
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Who has more green roofs than anywhere else? Washington, D.C., according to Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, which measures square footage of green roofs in across North America. The Top 10: Washington, D.C. Toronto, Ontario Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Chicago, Illinois New York City, New York Denver, Colorado […]
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For several years, Congress has been debating the merits of energy efficiency and has struggled to define what role, if any, it should play in advocating for new building codes aimed at increasing energy efficiency in the built environment. During those debates, NAIOP has educated our […]
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Biggest takeaways from the 2014 Green Building Adoption Index: Minneapolis is the U.S. city with the highest percentage of green commercial space at 77 percent, followed by San Francisco (67.2 percent), Chicago (62.1 percent), Houston (54.8 percent) and Atlanta (54.1 percent). Since 2005, Energy Star-labeled buildings […]
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U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) has released its fifth-annual list of the top states for LEED, using the square footage of LEED-certified space per resident (per capita) as the benchmark. How does your state stack up? Read on and see the top 10: Rank State Projects […]
Read MoreWe are all familiar with the famous Mark Twain quote: “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting.” After four years of drought, all of California is faced with drinking more whiskey (wine in the Bay Area) and less water. California Governor Jerry Brown announced an […]
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