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Posted by John Noriega on Saturday, March 24, 2012,
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--Our current energy grid suffers from a lack of communication and shared information. Demand response is one solution that is transforming the energy industry.
For the past few decades, our nation's infrastructure has struggled to keep up with the exponentially rising energy demand. The rise in demand is mostly due to our growing dependence on technology, and as businesses turn to new technology, they rely on the energy grid to support their business more than anythi...
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Posted by John Noriega on Wednesday, March 16, 2011,
ZamRay.com is quickly becoming a popular name within the sustainable construction industry and for good reason. ZamRay offers unique services in one convenient location that can effectively connect the construction industry. While the main purpose of this internet start up is to allow its users to buy and sell surplus and reclaimed material, there are many other components of the website that make it a useful source to improve construction projects across the nation.Earlier this week I had ... Continue reading ...
Posted by John Noriega on Thursday, July 8, 2010,
On Saturday, July 5th 2010, President Obama announced his approval of the DOE loan guarantee for solar energy projects. This $1.85 billion in funding takes advantage of last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Other recent ARRA projects received a combined total of $76 million a few weeks ago. These projects received federal funding to produce products that are unique to the sustainable construction industry and also train professionals to be familiar with this equipm...
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Posted by John Noriega on Monday, June 28, 2010,
On June 17, 2010, U.S. Department of Energy secretary, Steven Chu, announced that $76 million dollars of energy funding would be awarded to 58 selected projects for the advancement of sustainable buildings. As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), these task specific projects cover many aspects to advance the energy efficiency in the sustainable construction and operation of buildings in the United States. Proprietors of these projects include universities, research gr...
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Posted by John Noriega on Saturday, June 26, 2010,
McKinney Green Building: sustainable ROI project
An engineering consulting group, HDR, based out of Omaha, Nebraska has developed a new process that is used to evaluate sustainable project benefits. The process and its viability are becoming accepted by the building industry as a means of justifying the value of sustainable investments. Now project owners can compare a financial return on investment to a sustainable return on investment and clearly see a reason to build sustainably or not...
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Posted by John Noriega on Thursday, June 24, 2010,
Building codes and standards are undoubtedly the answer to overall sustainability in the commercial and private building sectors. While sustainable construction projects are becoming more popular, incentive to build sustainably only convinces some of the population of business owners, and homeowners. For now, building standards not affiliated with mandated building codes offer no official financial incentive. Sustainable construction is left to those who understand the necessity to build...
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Posted by John Noriega on Tuesday, June 22, 2010,
Project FROG is a company based out of San Francisco, California that has developed and produced a complete line of prefabricated modular classroom buildings. These state of the art structures achieve net zero energy standards and provide an optimal learning environment. The company was founded in 2006, when co-founder Mark Miller set out to design “the most technologically advanced, energy efficient building system on the planet.” As it states on their website, they claim they have ...
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