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Volume 5: The Costs and Benefits of High Performance Buildings

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

                 
BUILDINGS FOR THE 21st CENTURY

7          Excerpts from a Keynote Speech at GreenBuild 2007

President William Jefferson Clinton
 

13        Ecological Design Redux

Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan       


17        A Perspective from the Path: Towards Cradle to Cradle

William McDonough + Partners

 


TRANSFORMING THE MARKETPLACE

 23        Staking the Corners of the Green Revolution:  Transformative Change in Less than a Generation

S. Richard Fedrizzi, US Green Building Council
 

29        Transforming the Marketplace – Strategies for Achieving Green ROI in Commercial Buildings

Brenna S. Walraven, RPA, CPM, BOMA International
 

33        The Green Lease: What’s In It for Both Landlord and Tenant?

Mychele R. Lord, Lord Green Real Estate Strategies
 

37        Understanding the Differences Between LEED® and Green Globes™

Jeff Smitley, LEED AP and Green Advantage Certified Professional
Chief Sustainability Officer, Tishman Construction Corporation

 


UNDERSTANDING THE CARBON CONNECTION

39        Addressing the Climate Crisis Through Transformational Planning, Development and Partnerships

Jonathan F.P. Rose, Jonathan Rose Companies, LLC
 

43        Tools for Creating Cooler Communities

Bert Gregory, FAIA, Sean Cryan, Rob Matthews, APA, and Stephen Antupit, Mithun
 

47        10 Keys to a Low Carbon Community

Steven Kellenberg, EDAW/AECOM

 


THE ECONOMIC CASE

53        Greening America’s Buildings and Communities: Costs and Benefits

Greg Kats and Jon Braman, Good Energies
 

57        The Cost of Green Revisited

Lisa Fay Matthiessen and Peter Morris, Davis Langdon


69        Energy Performance in LEED® for New Construction Buildings

Cathy Turner and Stacey Hobart, New Buildings Institute

 


COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS

73        Adobe Systems Incorporated – A Case Study in Operating Sustainably

George Denise, CFM, CPM, FMA, RPA, Cushman & Wakefield
 

83        Getting to Platinum: From Conservation to Good Business

Gerard F.X. Geier, II, FAIA, IIDA, LEED AP, FXFowle Architects
 

87        Step-by-Step to Effective Energy Management

Todd Coulard, Trane, New York
 

89        California Academy of Sciences – Accelerated Entitlements: An Unexpected Benefit

Mark Palmer, LEED AP, San Francisco Department of Environment

 


RESIDENTIAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

91        The Visionaire: Building Upon the Solaire and Verdesian Experience

Craig G. Copeland, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
 

99        Dreaming, Building and Living Green in Victoria, BC: Dockside Green—A Triple Bottom

Line Development

Joe Van Belleghem, Windmill West Developments, LLP
 

102      Building Green on a Brownfield Site

David O’Neill, Cherokee   
Geoffrey Booth, Environmental Resources Management
 

105      One Developer’s Journey from LEED-Certified to Platinum

Harold Fetner, Durst-Fetner Residential, LLC

 


RETAIL

108      U.S. Shopping Centers Go Green

Rudolph E. Milian, SCMD, SCSM, International Council of Shopping Centers
 

113      Sustainability as Energy Efficiency –The Gift That Keeps On Giving

George Caraghiaur, LEED AP, Simon Property Group, Inc.

 


TOOLS OF THE TRADE

115      Tools of the Trade – A Compendium of Green Building Tools and Resources

117      Listings and Index

IBC      Cooperating Organizations
 

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