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Last time I wrote about 4 major initiatives that the entire building industry needs to come to grips with, and quickly.  Al Gore has famously modified that African proverb:

“if you want to go quickly, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together.  We have to go far quickly.”
I stated in my last blog [...]

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As an employee of IES who is looking at sustainability from the architecture and design point of view, I know how important it is to think of the energy consumption of a building before you finalize, or even start, a design. Thinking ahead to a green mechanical system is not something engineers are solely responsible [...]

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What I’d like to do in my blog is provide some basic guidance with some simple hints and tips for taking your sexy SketchUp model one step further and running the likes of detailed energy consumption, Architecture 2030 Challenge benckmarking and LEED daylighting compliance analysis.  Now, I’ve had a bit of experience using SketchUp over [...]

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Hello,
In the UK this week The Energy Savings Trust announced that half of us would be greener if we had a bit more time in our day! To help us with this they have provided us with three useful tools to help us manage our time;

The first is an “Energy Saving Clock” which allows you to [...]

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