Sentences with phrase «building green buildings»

If we are serious about building green buildings, they have to be built in place that people can get to.

«We wanted to build the greenest building in the federal government and create a unique demonstration of NASA technology in the built environment,» says Steve Zornetzer, NASA Ames's associate director.

And in that process, create an opportunity for New Orleans to build green building capacity and expertise, so it becomes an export economy, influencing building in the short term and in the longer term.

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It is the points that are the problem; in the checklist - based LEED system «The point system creates perverse incentives to design around the checklist rather than to build the greenest building possible.»

«LEED challenged people to build the greenest buildings,» Benyus said during a roundtable discussion with several architects and city planners.

Stunning built green building and excellent location - Walk score of 85!

Not exact matches

Located in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, the buildings in the 16th - century city of Trinidad reflect the natural environment — sugarcane green, ocean blue, and sunshine yellow — sometimes all mixed together on the same building.

When they were breathing well - ventilated air, with roughly the same low CO2 content as in a «green» building, the employees were 172 percent better at applying knowledge to a problem, and 97 percent more effective at responding to a crisis.

The premier said the green bonds don't preempt the panel's work, because they address the broader issue of building infrastructure across Ontario.

He believed his Massage Green Spa concept would attract customers — the locations were built with eco-friendly materials, and the introductory value - priced $ 29.99 hour - long massages beat out the competition.

Balat — the Jewish quarter of Istanbul since the Byzantine era — is a patchwork quilt of red, blue, and green buildings piled on top of each other.

«We can actually put computation in the infrastructure of the city so that we can make the city not only greener but more efficient,» he says, referencing innovations that could prevent the waste of electricity and water from cracks in building architecture.

Knight also built a second financial function that might be called «green, yellow, red.»

Enel Green Power Germany has signed agreement to build and manage the lithium - ion battery storage facility.

Their goal is to build up Fasten's brand and ensure that more people recognize the app, which features a black, lowercase «e» on top of a neon green background.

Green helped Weiss raise $ 2 million in seed funding, which she used to assemble a small team, including creative director Helen Steed, a beauty industry vet who'd helped build Bumble & Bumble, and COO Henry Davis, who came from the London office of venture capital firm Index Ventures.

«On our version of the spreadsheet the numbers are green, but they only turned green once we'd built up enough passive income and reduced our costs,» Jason said.

(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is an industry certification system for green buildings.)

He shows me a low - slung, rust - covered 1952 Chevrolet Fleetline, the first car his garage built; and a hunter - green 1968 Shelby Mustang, riding high on off - road tires, meant to look like the Mustang that appeared in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.

Quickly growing tech startups like Stem and Green Charge Networks are building businesses off of selling batteries to commercial building owners.

However, due to the building's landmark status (it was an inn for visiting barristers in the 18th century) there are no signs or flags allowed on the exterior; instead a bright green elephant sculpture marks the entrance to the hotel.

Strange, but hardly unprecedented: Like the green paper our economy is built on — and the gold and silver that predate it — Bitcoin is valuable because we collectively decide it is.

«There is some truth to that, because [in] Toronto for example, there is limitation as to where you can build low rise construction,» he said, referring to green belt policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl.

And a Trump administration is more likely than its predecessor to green - light pipeline expansion projects that Williams could build, Roth says.

If they'd agree to forge long - term partnerships with Lightfoot, who had nearly a decade of supply - chain expertise under his belt, he could build local greenhouses to provide kale, spinach, romaine, and other salad greens.

Before co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer honed the concept of ride hailing at Lyft, which has 1,000 employees, operates in 200 cities, and has raised more than $ 2 billion in venture capital, they built its predecessor, a ridesharing upstart called Zimride.

And there are still others that a much smaller but growing group of companies heeds — LEED green - building standards and B Corporation guidelines of social and environmental responsibility.

Building the vision and strategy and green - lighting the move to a platform approach was one of the most significant decisions our leadership has made over the history of the business.

Today, it is officially registered on the United States Green Building Council in an attempt to become the first LEED Gold - certified terminal in the United States.

That's realtor speak for older homes built on large lots surrounded by tons of green space.

Green Built's design and construction team is committed to developing HempHome: Tiny + as a beautiful, sustainable solution for healthy buildings.

Green Built's research uncovered that not only was all of Haiti's cement imported after the multinationals closed cement plants on Hispaniola (a limestone island), but Haitians paid more for cement than some regions of the U.S. did.

Given that the neighbourhood is built around the Capilano Golf course and tucked into a forest, it's very green but also a bit of a trek to the transit access points that get people across the bridge to the Lower Mainland.

At an early design meeting, Griffin laid out a vision of modular construction that will allow Green Built to build homes for people in different economic circumstances, and at different stages in their lives.

According to a snazzy computer rendering from the company, it's building perfectly symmetrical, bidirectional, neon - green - and - black robo - taxis that look like giant remote - control toys.

Green, the charismatic salesman, signed deals and built relationships with merchants and marketers, while Newell worked behind the scenes.

In the Water Corp's scramble to look as green as possible the power generation capacity to drive the desal plant has been built twice.

In 2009, after two years of planning, New York City denied Gotham Greens a permit to build its first greenhouse.

«No matter how excited people were about this new green building, they'd say, «My budget!

An early pioneer of the green building industry, Robert Politzer launched GreenStreet the same year that LEED certification was born.

Landsdowne Park only opened in 2015, but it's become a major attraction in the city, mixing restaurants and entertainment venues with heritage buildings and green space.

«By committing significant financial resources to these offsets, we're building into our business a strong incentive to pursue shared rides and the displacement of gasoline - powered vehicles,» Zimmer and Green wrote.

But, in terms of green benefits, the buildings featured plenty of natural light, which both cut down on artificial lighting and provided warmth during daytime (i.e., peak) hours.

According to the U.S. Green Building Council, total revenue across the industry should grow to $ 245 billion by 2016.

When Stephen Ellis and his co-founder Grant Castillow launched MyGreenBuildings, a luxury residential green building company, he started with his own home, vowing to make it the greenest home in Florida.

Once a power plant is built or technology is integrated into an industrial facility, it may last for years or decades, creating an entrenched competitor to new green energy technologies, he explained.

While it would be ideal if the company next door got cracking on building a green roof, until that happens bosses can help keep their teams» brains at their most productive by simply ensuring they can easily view nature in some form or another.

According to Julian Green, director of ProStores, the comprehensive suite of e-commerce capabilities that ProStores offers, including shopping cart functionality, credit card processing and PayPal integration, allows e-tailers to build their own online brand, complete with automatic search engine optimization, while easily maintaining listings on eBay.

The couple built the house in 1959 and watched as their neighborhood, once green with plenty of space for backyards and swing sets, vanished.