by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. The next movement is all about being a star – an Energy Star. This program of the Environmental Protection Agency was originally created to reduce air pollution, but has now become the most recognizable […]
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by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. Did you know that occupants control as much as 70% of a building’s energy consumption? If you want to make your building more energy efficient, educate the building’s occupants about how to be smarter […]
by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. “Call Me, Maybe” may have been omnipresent during the summer of 2012, but the title of this movement of our Energy Symphony is “Call Mac, Maybe.” Why? Because maybe you should change your buying […]
by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. Humans make errors, but robots are perfect, right? Well, if you can automate some functions, you can remove human error. In this case, error means forgetting to turn the lights off when you leave […]
by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium. Our symphony continues with another dark movement. Plug load (electronics plugged into outlets) consumes 20-25% of a building’s energy use, whether or not the electronics are actually turned on! You’ve probably heard the terms […]
by Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium When thinking about building energy efficiency, here’s an idea: let’s all agree to have no more bright ideas! He can have good ones and even great ones, but no more bright ones. Why? As […]
By Scott D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM Adapted from a presentation at the Central Penn Business Journal’s Real Estate & Development Symposium I was recently invited to speak about energy efficiency in buildings at the Central Penn Business Journal’s annual Real Estate & Development Symposium, which was held on September 3 at the Hershey Lodge (if […]
By Timothy A. Warren, PE, LEED AP BD+C When is the last time someone told you to think small instead of big? I can think of no recent examples. I usually go with conventional wisdom. For example, at some point in our lives, most of us have dreamed of having the big house full of […]
By Timothy A. Warren, PE, LEED AP BD+C When Owners look at project design fees, they often compare the design fee to the overall cost of construction. While this comparison may be useful for some general benchmarking, the reality is that the overall operations and maintenance cost for a building dwarfs both the cost to […]
By Timothy A. Warren, PE, LEED AP BD+C As Design Professionals, engineers have a responsibility to be stewards of the environment. Since buildings consume nearly 40% energy and 40% raw materials, while also producing 30% of the waste output in the United States, our approach to building design has immediate and long-term impacts to the […]