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California Moves Forward on Energy Storage
The California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision this week that will guide power companies towards an increased utilization of energy storage. The proposed framework lays out both...
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Are Efficiency, Education, and Enthusiasm the Keys to High-Performance Housing?
Dennis Creech’s impressive track record of advocating for high-performance housing and energy efficiency at Southface won over the judges for The Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership in Sustainable...
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Increase Profits: Home Performance for the Long Haul
Incorporate the principles of home performance into all your work to provide long-term benefits for your clients and your business. Home performance as an industry has been around for a while, but it...
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The Top 5 Most Energy Efficient Cities Are…
With a recently enacted energy benchmarking policy, a host of forward-thinking architecture and design firms, and a rising tide of studies emerging on how the area will deal with climate change and...
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The 2014 New American Home to Achieve Highest Levels of Sustainability
The 2014 New American Home, the official showcase house of the International Builders’ Show, is rising out of the foothills of the exclusive Sky Terrace housing development in Henderson, Nev. The...
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Ten Misconceptions About the Passive House Standard
Arguments against the Passive House standard are based on misunderstandings I’m a small building energy modeler, and the tools of my trade are airtightness, insulation, window placement, and...
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How Did Homeowners Use the Energy Tax Credits?
In 2005, Congress established a number of energy-efficiency tax incentives related to housing. These policies include the tax code section 45L credit for the construction of energy-efficient homes, the...
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What We Can Learn From NYC’s Latest Energy and Water Benchmarking Data
While New York City buildings are responsible for 74 percent of citywide greenhouse gas emissions, 94 percent of total electricity use, and 85 percent of potable water consumption in the city, these...
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Greenbuild: The Next Level in Sustainable Design and Construction
November marks the next phase in Hanley Wood’s progress as a leader in the sustainable design and construction market. We will host the 2013 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in...
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Greenbuild: Three Takeaways
I have Greenbuilditis and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. Symptoms include sore and sometimes swollen feet from walking convention center halls; achy shoulders from carrying an oversized bag to carry...
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Product Transparency Movement Gets X-Rayed at Greenbuild
Big names (Hillary Clinton, Bon Jovi) and big themes (climate change, disaster recovery) tended to get the big headlines at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Philadelphia late in...
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Utility Companies are About to Catch up to Cars and Cabins
SolarCity, the nation’s largest PV installer, has another good idea: use batteries to store the power. Just like the golf cart batteries that stored energy from the little PV panel I had on the roof of...
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Hanley Wood Announces 2014 Sustainability Council
Leading Industry Thinkers to Advocate for Deepening the Industry Commitment to Sustainable Building February 4, 2014 (Washington, DC) – Hanley Wood announces the selection of ten remarkable individuals...
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Green Home Building Valued at $36 Billion, Expected to Double by 2016
Ca-ching! Green homes comprised 23 percent of the residential construction market in 2013 and had a market share valued at $36 billion, according to a new “Green Home Builders and Remodelers Study”...
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Student Home Design Competition Puts Sustainability First
As part of its Building America Program, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is engaging college students across the United States to participate in the DOE Challenge Home Student Design Competition...
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Is Nanotechnology the Next Sustainability Wave in Design and Building?
Since the advent of computer modelling in the early 1990s, architects have been able to conceptually manipulate not just the very large, but also the very small. Already, nanotechnology is found in the...
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Home Buyers Consider Sustainable Features to be ‘Very Important’
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