The Clay County Progress
The school is moving ahead with a $921,000 contract guaranteed to upgrade systems and recoup the money spent on energy improvements.
Pablo Pittaluga, with Johnson Controls, presented the final report of his company’s analysis of the Clay County Schools campus.
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How could your school district improve the energy efficiency of its buildings?
Reuters
Here are 10 ways you can reduce your energy usage and costs without sacrificing comfort or building functionality.
The tips are among the free tools and case studies available on the Johnson Controls Inc. microsite www.MakeYourBuildingWork.com.
The site launched earlier this summer as part of the company’s campaign to emphasize practical solutions for owners, managers and building operators to improve the energy efficiency and performance of their facilities.
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How many of these practices is your organization following?
Bloomberg
The first stop on my tour of New York’s Empire State Building was not the observatory rising high atop the 102nd floor, but a window factory on the fifth.
Here, a “green-collar” workforce of 40 strips old windows out of their frames, hangs a new heat-reflecting film between two panes of glass, putties sealant along the edges, and pops them back in the cleaned old frames.
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How do you think the Empire State Building is a model for other building retrofits?
WIS-TV, Columbia, South Carolina
The Bank of America Plaza may look the same on the outside, but big changes on the inside made it more energy efficient.
On Tuesday, the owners and tenants of the building celebrated it being recognized as the first existing building to be certified LEED Gold by the US Green Building Council.
Read more on the WIS-TV website. Submit your comments below.
How is your organization working to make your facilities more energy efficient?
AutomatedBuildings.com
In an interview with AutomatedBuildings.com Leland Smith of Johnson Controls says retrofitting private sector buildings has the potential to create both environmental and economic impact for building owners, tenants and communities. Given the scope of improvements needed, Smith says there is potential to create more than 360,000 jobs to service these facilities over the next 10 years.
Read the interview on AutomatedBuildings.com. Submit your comments below.
How would you rank the incentives driving efforts to make commercial buildings more energy efficient?
BrighterEnergy.org
A new permanent exhibition has opened at the Empire State Building in New York, showcasing the $20 million energy retrofit project in the city landmark.
The interactive, multimedia attraction aims to bring awareness to 3.8 million people that visit the iconic building every year regarding building efficiency and sustainable living practices.
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What energy efficiency improvements can your organization showcase?
SC Now
Representatives from some of the largest corporations in the Pee Dee gave tips to local businesses on reducing carbon footprints and the long-term benefits of making the switch to more sustainable practices during a brunch at the Pee Dee Realtors Association on Tuesday.
“In the future sustainable projects are really going to pay the bills for companies,“ Eric Meringher of Johnson Controls said.
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How are you greening your office?
The Register-Herald
An Ohio firm is paying the Raleigh County Commission a visit next week to see if it can find ways of making the eight county-owned structures more energy efficient.
If that can be done, it could translate into some more borrowing power for the commission, with special regard to installing new courthouse windows.
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How could your local government improve the energy efficiency of public facilities?
GreeningDetroit.com
The second seminar in the OakGreen County Sustainable Communities series took place Tuesday, July 6, 2010, and was presented by Johnson Controls.
The seminar brought a number of individuals from the community together to learn about green financing resources and pending legislation in Michigan.
Read more on GreeningDetroit.com. Submit your comments below.
How is your organization financing energy efficiency improvements?
