JPMorgan Chase Achieves LEED Platinum Green Building Certification for NYC HQ.The article announces that JPMorgan Chase earned a Platinum rating for the renovation of its global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.Kraat...
In 2009, New York became the first city to enact legislation requiring existing buildings to measure and report their energy use. Local Law 84 was part of a package of legislation intended to dramatically reduce the city’s carbon footprint. The laws “will make New York the first American c...
The Harvard Green Building Services program provides sustainable building consulting services to the Harvard community, including existing facility owners, capital project teams, and other units. Consulting services encompass a range of offerings to ensure cost effective green buildings that provide improved ...
LEED 2009 has attempted to fix one of my major criticisms, that LEED does nothing to prevent “green sprawl”—green buildings built on unsustainable sites—first voiced here. Although there is still nothing to prevent a “green” big box store surrounded by acres of parking lot on the urban...