Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

asking is, ‘how beneficial is it to renovate my home with the new energy efficient, green and sustainable’ products, or should I just make a few repairs and paint the house?’ There are several inexpensive steps that are easily implemented for turning a home green. The most effective way is to start by ‘sealing the envelope’ and making improvements on insulation performance with an energy audit The EPA provides a financial and environmental incentive by setting up certifications with remodeling companies

converting their real estate into energy efficient areas. The ability to win a multi-million dollar tax break is quite a motivator, but just how much are these companies really doing to turn their properties green? It turns out that many will do the bare minimum to win over this green certification, and most end up using just as much energy as they previously did. This is why a recertification effort needs to be done conducted to ensure that green buildings are truly energy efficient and are not just products

As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”, I have considered this quote as one of most influencing quotes that I used in my life that was, and still, full of challenges from all kinds. Speaking of my career progression, I have been enjoying turning a challenge into an opportunity and making a success from fail. “Unfortunately, we don 't have any job openings”

Environmental problems are known to be a “Wicked problem” because there are so many sides one must please, and ultimately never solve. From power, transportation, food scarcity; each one of these face technological and government borders. The fact is it is hard to make people agree, it is truly remarkable that the United Nations still stands and operates today when so many earlier versions of it have failed. Still when countries are not at war together, their own country is not revolution, the topic

project delivery process to accommodate green buildings can reduce or eliminate their first cost increase for green buildings (Lipinski 2005).” “ To achieve their performance benefits, green projects use intense interdisciplinary collaboration during design, highly complex modeling and analysis, and careful material and system selection particularly early in the project delivery process (Riley et al. 2004).” (Klotz, Horman, & Bodenschatz, 2007) 3. An Integrated

Elastomeric Roof Coating | Commercial Roofing Fort Worth Green Benefits and Energy Savings A roof coating provides a monolithic, fully adhered, fluid applied roofing membrane with flexible properties that allows it to expand and contract with the temperature without incurring damage. It can be applied over any commercial roof substrate, curing to form a seamless 100% acrylic elastomeric membrane engineered to seal the entire roof, prolonging the roof life. The benefits of a “cool roof” elastomeric

More of the Library’s parcel and more of the tract of town land remaining with the golf course would be consumed for parking. The aim is have as little asphalt as possible while achieving design and use purposes. In the winter months, snow will be pushed to the left rear of the building, where an access road will need to be designed and created for fire truck access. It is along the edges of this road and to the side of the Town sides of

By incorporating sustainable efforts that encourage green initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint on the environment, the P-Man Mall redevelopment can provide long-term benefits for UM Investments and the surrounding community. Improving and revitalizing this property will increase profitability with the increased consumer traffic, reduce operational costs with green initiatives, and attract additional businesses to the location. The firm has allocated $20 million in calendar year 2016 for a

With global warming, the world's attention on building energy efficiency is increasing. There are a large proportion of architects recognised that the main factor of global warming is the use of building energy generated by CO2. Sustainable architecture is involving methods that do not completely use up or destroy natural resources. There are several major elements need to be considered, such as technology, economy and Health . However, architects pay their greatest attention to environment. Because

I chose to do the movie Baywatch for my assignment because I never saw it and it came out in 2017. I liked this movie because it was an action-packed comedy but it wasn’t the best movie I’ve seen. I would defiantly give this movie a 6.5 out of ten. This is because there were some parts that were funny but I didn’t understand why they had to be put in the movie. This movie was placed in Florida at the beach of Emerald Bay. In this movie, there were 2 main characters which are Mitch, played by Dwayne